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F&B excluded from European Commission’s Future Competitiveness report

In the 328-page report, food is mentioned seven times and only as part of a wider section on Europe’s largest polluting manufacturing industries. The report aims to counter Europe’s worry over “slowing growth since the start of the century” and acknowledges multiple strategies since 2000 had been raised to kickstart significant growth, but came to

VW Chairman: “European Emissions Standards Must Be More Realistic”

Hans Dieter Pötsch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG, is urging the EU to relax emissions standards quickly. According to Pötsch, this is not because Volkswagen does not want to, but because the market is not cooperating. Pötsch, who has been at the helm of the body that supervises Volkswagen AG’s board of