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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11616

6 September 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / Industry
Potocnik fights hard to defend himself in Volkswagen scandal
Brussels, 05/09/2016 (Agenced Europe)

Former environment commissioner from 2010 until 2014 Janez Potocnik was questioned at length by the committee of inquiry into the Volkswagen scandal on Monday 5 September but resolutely held to his line, stating that he had done his best when he was a commissioner and using the opportunity subtly to attack his former colleague, the then industry commissioner.

Potocnik was upbeat, sometimes scathing, sparing no individual and no institution, criticising one after the other the car industry,...

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