“I said this to the Commissioner in a personal conversation on Thursday in Brussels,” Mr. Müller said in comments published on Sunday in Germany’s weekly Welt am Sonntag newspaper. “VW cannot cheat European consumers and escape accountability,” said Michael Hausfeld, chairman of the law firm. In Europe, consumer law and environmental law are irrelevant,” said Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, head of the Center for Automotive Research in Duisburg. Some owners are worried that Volkswagen’s planned fix to make the vehicles compliant with environmental laws could affect the vehicles’ performance. During the meeting on Thursday with Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European Union Industry Commissioner, Mr. Müller made clear that Volkswagen had no intention of offering equal compensation to Europeans who bought tainted diesel vehicles.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 03, 2016 18:22 UTC