“European authorities go easy”
In an interview with Zeit Online’s Matthias Breitinger, Peter Mock, Europe managing director of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), says European authorities have been more restrained than their counterparts in the United States when it comes to Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal. In the EU it is not the European Commission but rather individual member states — where industry policy often plays a large role — that oversee jurisdiction in that area. In Germany, VW has called in affected cars but owners have not been awarded compensation. Nevertheless, while the process in Europe has been slower, legal proceedings are expected to clarify possible claims of customer compensation and many lawsuits in the EU are yet to come.
Read the article in German here.