Posted on 01/13/2017 9:40:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
Germany wants the European Union’s executive branch to question Italy over software that regulates emissions in Fiat Chrysler diesel cars.
A Transport Ministry spokeswoman says German authorities believe the software constitutes an unauthorized “defeat device.” […]
Transport Ministry spokeswoman Svenja Friedrich noted that Fiat Chrysler had refused to meet German authorities, and Italy had canceled a “mediation” meeting with the European Commission scheduled for the end of the month. …
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Anyone who thinks this will go as a Germany-EU versus Fiat fight is guessing wrong. Italians will cling to Fiat and see this as a state-versus-state insult.
The former is the impression that Svenja Friedrich is trying to create. She seems to think that the Commission is their thug police.
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