I don't disagree with your point that nothing is ever going to come of it. In the case of an independently-owned local newspaper the EU can "huff and puff" as m

I don't disagree with your point that nothing is ever going to come of it. In the case of an independently-owned local newspaper the EU can "huff and puff" as much as they want and there's not going to realistically be any impact to them. A lot of these "local" papers are owned by large parent companies though, and that becomes a different story all together. Even if you are independent and there's nothing the EU can realistically do to you, it's just one more thing you have to deal with. Figuring out WTF is going on, getting a lawyer to verify that there's nothing they can do to you, etc. etc. There are still some hard costs associated and it's going to distract you from what your company actually does for a while.