Car industry bonuses unfair after diesel scandal, says Merkel
by Julia Kollewe and agencies from Economics | The Guardian on (#2ZTGA)
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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has described big bonuses to car industry executives as unfair following the diesel emissions scandal and called on the industry to rein them in.
In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Merkel was asked about multimillion-euro bonuses for car executives in the wake of the scandal, which erupted nearly two years ago when Volkswagen admitted that it had cheated US diesel emissions tests.
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