File photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a Volkswagen car: DPA. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that trust must be restored in diesel cars after the emissions cheating scandal and spoke out against plans to ban them from some inner cities. She pointed to new software updates designed to fix the emissions problem and said that "in order to prevent or reverse the drop in value of diesel cars, we need to restore trust in diesel". Merkel was dubbed the "car chancellor" in 2013 after she went to bat for the sector and argued against an EU cap on emissions. SEE ALSO: What you should know about the 'dieselgate' scandal shaking up Germany's car industryBut her election opponents, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), also have cosy links to the sector.

Source: The Local August 21, 2017 14:03 UTC