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A 'car hater' joins the board of VW

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Jörg Luyken
Nov 10, 2022
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Germany’s right-wing press are up in arms after an ‘avowed’ cyclist has taken a seat on the board of the country’s mightiest car company.

Julia Hamburg, leader of the Greens in Lower Saxony, has become a board member at Volkswagen as part of the coalition deal that was signed between the Social Democrats and the Gree…

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