Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has failed in a bid to sue the Mail on Sunday through a German court .
Schroeder
was suing over a 2003 article which reported his close relationship
with Sandra Maischberger, a 36-year-old TV journalist. He claimed it
infringed his privacy and sued in Germany because he said the relevant
edition of the paper had been distributed in that country.
However, Hamburg State Court ruled that it had no jurisdiction.
MoS
lawyer Gerald Neben said: "This is a great victory for press freedom.
If every newspaper had to check with all 25 countries within the EU, they
couldn't print a thing."
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