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A regional court in the southern German city of Munich has to reopen a massive damages case brought by buyers of lorries from across Europe after the European Union fined major manufacturers including Daimler and Volvo/Renault for having colluded on pricing. The Munich Higher Regional Court overturned a judgement handed down three years ago on Thursday, ruling – contrary to the opinion of the lower court – that the lawsuit was admissible. Buyers of trucks had brought the lawsuit after the European Commission found in 2016 that major lorry makers had broken EU antitrust rules. They had “collude…

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