EU lawmakers need more time for car approval reform

An Italian report triggered by the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal finds Fiat cars emitting more than double the EU limit. The report was finished in July, but has not been made public.

A year after Dieselgate broke, millions of polluting cars are still on the road. Not everyone will adhere to the Volkswagen recall, and some who did want the cheating software back.

A leaked EU memo from 2012 shows that officials warned the office of former industry chief Antonio Tajani on possible illegal car emissions discrepancies, but he did nothing to investigate.

Carmakers claim they don't know what "normal" driving conditions are in terms of EU law. But their own lobby group already decided 14 years ago.

French committee concluded that car manufacturers “systematically” used defeat devices. Market surveillance in the EU was “largely insufficient”.

The 2012 request is somewhat ironic, considering that it has since emerged some car companies themselves have misled the public about how their cars' emissions filters worked.

MEPs' visit to emissions lab in Ispra did not yield a lot of new evidence, inquiry committee chairwoman said, as VW announced billions of euro in profit.

New York attorney general says his investigation showed "a culture of deeply rooted corporate arrogance" in the Volkswagen Group.

Members of the UK parliament said in report that Volkswagen Group acted with “a cynical disregard for emissions limits”.

First former EU commissioner Stavros Dimas appears in front of parliamentary inquiry committee into Dieselgate scandal.

German MEP Bernd Lange wrote the definition of defeat devices in 1997 into EU legislation, but also the exception carmakers use as a loophole.

The EU Commission has offered to clarify legislation on emissions cheating software, but an apparent communication breakdown with Germany is not helping its cause.