News Digest Item
21 Apr 2017

“Fraud and self-deception”

tageszeitung (taz)

By not publishing CO₂ emissions test results, the federal government is protecting Germany’s auto industry and thus hindering important innovation in efficiency and climate protection, writes Bernhard Pötter in an opinion piece in taz. “If in ten years the auto industry collapses like the big power utilities do now, the federal government will also be to blame,” writes Pötter.

Read the opinion piece in German here.

For background read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

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