BRUSSELS: The EU”s antitrust authority on Thursday fined German auto giants Volkswagen and BMW 875 million euros for colluding on the development of anti-pollution technology for diesel cars. “Today”s decision is about how legitimate technical cooperation went wrong,” EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. Germany”s Daimler was spared a fine for cooperating in the investigation.
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