Amid the debate about VW's cost-cutting plans: Industry association sees further need for reform

"With regard to the ongoing and acute site-location problems, the automotive industry will have to implement further reforms and adjustments. This includes cost discipline, unfortunately also necessary personnel reductions and profound reforms of business models." Denying this need for action would be no option. "It is short-sighted and, because of its consequences, unsocial."— Hildegard Müller, President of the Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA), in a statement