German politicians and car company bosses will hold a second diesel summit after they agreed at a first meeting to overhaul engine software on 5.3 million diesel cars, a government spokesman said on Friday, though he did not name a date. Environmentalists have said measures taken at the first diesel summit on Aug. 2 to cut pollution and repair the industry's battered reputation did not go far enough. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said while the first important steps had been agreed at that summit, Germany would not simply return to business as usual. "Four groups of experts have been deployed to debate what possible further measures can be taken," he told reporters. A spokeswoman for the Transport Ministry said: "From our point of view it's not yet necessary to talk about the date of a diesel summit."

Source: dna August 11, 2017 15:33 UTC