– Volkswagen should voluntarily pay compensation to holders of European cars of this brand in the same amount, in which they will do it in the US market – calls Elizabeth Bieńkowska, European Commissioner for. internal market and services.
As reported by Reuters, was deputy Polish said in Sunday’s interview with the German “Die Welt” that it would be unjust treatment of European drivers differently than those in the United States.
– this approach is definitely not a good way to regain trust – said Bieńkowska and added that one can not treat customers differently only because in the European Union there is another the legal system than in the US.
in the next week, the German manufacturer has to make a deal, under which it will have to buy from the US market nearly 500,000 vehicles equipped with the two-liter diesel engines, which were installed software distorting the results of emissions. Moreover, each driver who loses in this way, the car will receive more compensation in the amount that according to unofficial information is hover around $ 5,000.
The whole settlement could therefore cost the Volkswagen up to 10 billion dollars. Of course, some of the drivers will choose to leave the car, only the manufacturer will order the removal of felernego software. Such a possibility is also guaranteed in the contract between Volkswagen and the American authorities.
As well there will be in the European Union. Here, the German company has committed only to remove the faulty software, of course, at your expense. However, there is no question of any compensation for the drivers, against which protest was in an interview with “Die Welt” EU Commissioner Elizabeth Bieńkowska.
The scandal petrol erupted in September 2015 when it was discovered that the cars volswagen assembled software that allowed to manipulate the results of emissions from the exhaust system. This was mainly diesel vehicles, which, according to estimates by the manufacturer throughout the world is currently about 11 million, of which approx. 500 thousand. in the United States.
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