Going by their written answers to the EMIS investigative committee on the Volkswagen scandal that EUROPE consulted on Monday 12 September, neither Internal Market and Industry Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, nor Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella were aware of the existence of defeat devices before the Volkswagen scandal broke.
The two commissioners put forward the same reasoning. Their respective departments informed them at the start of their term of office about the great...