British media baron Robert Maxwell canceled a...

British media baron Robert Maxwell canceled a major address on the launch of his English-language newspaper, the European, saying his editorial team was not yet “pursuing shared goals and a unified concept.” The launch of the new daily, aiming to start with a half-million readers across Europe in early May, has already been postponed once. Maxwell, 65, however, said in a last-minute letter in which he withdrew as a keynote speaker at a European conference of foreign press associations that he had a “total commitment to launching the European as the first pan-European paper.” Maxwell, who bought the U.S. publishing giant Macmillan Inc. for $2.6 billion last fall, oversees a publishing empire with 40,000 employees and operations in 28 countries