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Leaked information ahead of the last day of exploratory talks between Germany鈥檚 prospective coalition parties suggest that Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) will spare the country鈥檚 mighty carmakers drastic measures to reduce pollution in the sector, Nikolaus Doll writes in Die Welt. 鈥淭he car industry can breathe a sigh of relief with respect to diesel cars鈥�, as passages on transport in a working group paper were 鈥渟ufficiently vague鈥� to not impose any immediate consequences on the car companies, Doll says. Carmakers did not have to fear that costly mechanical retrofitting for older diesel cars will become mandatory, he argues. While the paper says combustion engines had to become 鈥渕ore efficient and cleaner including retrofits鈥�, it does not specify how affected cars are supposed to be treated. 鈥淎nd that鈥檚 the point of the matter,鈥� Doll writes. At the national diesel summit last summer, the parties decided that 5.3 million diesel cars in Germany are to receive a software update to prevent looming driving bans in inner cities but critics, such as SPD-environment minister Barbara Hendricks, say only mechanical retrofitting would lead to meaningful emissions reduction, an option 鈥渢he conservatives try to spare carmakers from鈥� as this would cost them hundreds of millions of euros, Doll writes.

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