EU's Probes Against iTunes Might Support Apple in Europe

The French business magazine Les Echos reports that the EU has launched investigations and already sent charges related to the iTunes Store, and especially concerning the agreement between Apple and Music Majors considered by the EU as violating the rules prohibiting restrictive business practices.
Jonathan Todd, the European Commission spokesman, declared:

"Consumers can only buy music from the iTunes online stores in their country of residence and are therefore restricted in their choice of where to buy music, and consequently what music is available and at what price..."

This decision from the EU is the consequence of a complain filed in 2005 by a UK consumer group "Which?", and denouncing the higher price paid by British consumers (0.79 pound = 1.16 Euro) for purchasing a music track from the UK iTS while consumers from the France and Germany would only pay 0.99 Euro.
It is well established that the iTunes Store only came to Europe months later its introduction in USA due to the negotiations between Apple and Music Majors, including all the different policies they had in different EU countries. So, if Apple was originally planning to launch a Pan-European iTunes Store, it simply could not do it mostly due to Music majors; probably waving the "Legal aspect" flag while they were probably afraid of having Apple operating a Pan-European iTS from Luxembourg.
As published by the Belgian newspaper "Le Soir", the first official comment from Apple to address the last EU charges follows the same strategy:

"Apple has always tried to operate a single pan-European iTunes stores accessible by anyone from any member state. But we were advised by the music labels and publishers that there were certain legal limits to the rights they could grant us"