06/09/2016 (Agence Europe) – Contacted by EUROPE on Tuesday 6 September, the chair of the European Parliament’s investigative committee on the Volkswagen scandal (the EMIS committee), Kathleen Van Brempt (S&D, Belgium), rejected any idea of wanting to protect MEPs from her political group. A controversy has blown up after the 1 September meeting of EMIS coordinators, when Jens Gieseke (EPP, Germany) suggested inviting two German MEPs, Bernd Lange and Matthias Groote, to testify before...