“EU Commission has to admit to its own mistakes”
NDR.de
The EU Commission should admit that it did little to ensure its own anti-pollution rules were enforced, and that carmakers were long suspected of using technology to get around emissions rules, says Sebastian Schöbel, ARD radio correspondent in Brussels in a commentary on ndr.de. “Without the Americans, emissions manipulation in Europe would not have come to light for years,” he says, referring to researchers in the United States who discovered that so-called defeat devices were enabling cars to pollute more than allowed.
Read the commentary in German here.
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