News Digest Item
18 Apr 2018

Government parties are hindering the modernisation of the car industry – Green MP

Die Welt

Germany’s automobile industry has had a lot of “false friends” in the government in recent years, Green Party politician and head of the parliamentary commission on transport and digitalisation Cem Özdemir told Ansgar Graw at Die Welt in an interview. By putting a brake on emission-free mobility, they put a brake on innovations, Özdemir said.

Read the article in German here.

Read a CLEW dossier on German carmakers in the energy transition here.

See the CLEW dossier The next German government and the energy transition for background.

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