VW: The dirt under the bonnet
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With a €404bn turnover and 792,500 employees last year, the car industry is crucial to Germany and there is a revolving door between government and the industry. But did this lead Angela Merkel's administration to lobby for favourable legislation and turn a blind eye to some of its practices? Guy Chazan reports.
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