BRUSSELS:
A top executive for embattled Volkswagen will hold talks in Brussels with a senior European Union (EU) official on Tuesday (today) in an effort to soothe tensions before European ministers discuss the car-testing scandal later in the week.
The EU’s Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska will meet Herbert Diess, the head of the auto group’s Volkswagen brand, who had been on the shortlist to replace Martin Winterkorn as CEO.
The European Commission is the top regulator for pollution emissions in the EU and is under fire for dragging its feet against carmakers despite evidence of suspicious pollution testing.
The EU’s 28 trade or industry ministers will broach the scandal during talks in Luxembourg on Thursday, the first high-level meeting in Europe on the VW crisis. VW sparked global outrage when it admitted that 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide are fitted with so-called defeat devices that activate pollution controls during lab tests but covertly turn them off when the car is on the road.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 29th, 2015.
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