BRUSSELS TO DEFY MERKEL OVER VW AND PUSH EUROPEAN JUDGES TO FINE GERMANY
September 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has brushed aside opposition to removal of the so-called Volkswagen Law by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and plans to pursue the matter in the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Speaking to just-auto, Brussels internal market spokeswoman Catherine Bunyan said the Commission would be sending Germany a "legal final warning", (a "reasoned opinion") that it would be taken back to the ECJ if it did not comply with an earlier ruling that German government authority over VW broke European Union capital movement ...
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