“Open questions”
Stuttgarter Zeitung
It is plausible that Chancellor Angela Merkel first heard about the VW emissions scandal in the media, as even industry experts were surprised by the extent of the problem, Roland Pichler writes in an opinion piece in Stuttgarter Zeitung. “Yet the question remains why politicians tolerated the inconsistencies in emissions data for so long. […] It is clear the controlling institutions failed,” Pichler says.
Read the opinion piece in German here.
For background read the CLEW factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.
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