EU SUMMIT PUSHES EUROPEAN AUTO INDUSTRY RESCUE PACKAGE

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of government have told the European Commission to draft by December 11 major funding plan to help the EU's automobile manufacturing industry cope with the current recession and re-tool for low emissions models. French president Nicolas Sarkozy said later: "Can we ask the European car industry to produce clean cars...without giving them a helping hand?"

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