How the VW crisis is a failure of Germany's car policy

Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker, is in the midst of a severe sales and cost crisis that it says requires plant closures and layoffs. Talks to rescue VW have started, but could Germany's car policy prevented this?

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