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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11611

30 August 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / Industry
Volkswagen scandal - Verheugen sets out line of defence
Brussels, 29/08/2016 (Agence Europe)

Former industry commissioner from 2004 to 2010 Günter Verheugen states in his written response at the end of last week to the European Parliament committee of inquiry on the Volkswagen scandal, the EMIS committee, that he did not have enough information to allow him to take strong action against cheat devices.

“…the truth is that at that time a very limited and insufficient amount of data was available to substantiate any quantitative assessment of the gap between NOx (Ed: nitrogen...