More recently, they have blocked and delayed the EU's proposed emissions targets for 2025 and 2030 which would have required 40% fleet-wide CO2 reductions by 2030 and set minimum targets for zero emission vehicles.
(It should be noted Sweden, France, and Spain - who also have significant auto industries - are in favour of the new rules).
What happened instead? Normal engineers got blamed instead of executives. Fucking capitalism and fucking CDU, SPD and FDP. The sole reason for their existence is to sack money from lobbyists.
When you have people like Schäuble, a piece of shit that was convicted for corruption in 1999, who was the minister of finance for the past couple of years in germany, it makes sense that germany does nothing against big corporate.
merely giving an example that fits this thread (automotive).
Do you have source on this?
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble#/CDU_Part...
He failed to do anything about cum-cum/cum-ex. He came up with a tax on fuel for nuclear power plants, that I am convinced was deliberately designed to be in violation of the constitution, leading to a 7 billion tax-revenue loss.
Not to speak of his views law and order and how the wrecked Greece because he doesn't understand economics.
If greece were governed by a right wing party, I'm sure he'd have been most generous. Germany put pressure on them to get rid of the leftists.
VW (and Audi etc.) top executives are under criminal investigations. Their houses and offices have been searched multiple times.
> Still waiting to see Winterkorn & friends under the guillotine for scamming the entire world.
Sorry, we don't have capital punishment. And the guillotine is a bit too French for our taste, anyway (also, it was used by the GDR, so not a good role model).