Google now has to comply with the new French law and remove snippets from their search results for European press publications. Google wrote about it in French over here. With that, some publishers are getting notified of this removal via Search Console.

The Search Console notifications are in English and read. Site name was designated a European press publication by Search Console. It goes on to read:

Here is a screen shot of the email:

Maybe this bug we saw where Google was not showing anything but URLs, was a test to see how this may look in France?

Forum discussion at Twitter.