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"Through the Socialist and Democrats Group for years we have been crying out and pushing for realistic testing that assesses real, on-road conditions. It was well known that the current ones and, by extension, the Euro 6 standards, were a joke on everyone who can breathe. Only this week, the first peer-reviewed academic study came out, estimating that 60 premature deaths can be attributed to Volkswagen cars in the US alone When the European automobile industry knows they can dictate policy whenever their bottom line is at stake, championed by the Union’s most powerful country, is it any wonder that they believe themselves free to act like they are above the law?
Ultimately, postponing necessary measures serves only to generate short-term savings for private interests that come at a huge cost to society as a whole. Those who think themselves pragmatic by protecting the industry and the European economy by doing so are seriously deluded. They are postponing the roll-out of clean innovation solutions that are the future of the car industry and others, subsidising the dirtiest kinds of fossil fuels, like diesel, in all sorts of visible and invisible ways. They are lying to themselves and to the public and, in the process, condemning many of us to a premature death."@en1
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