MUNICH – The Volkswagen scandal has raised questions about the German model of production. If the success of the company’s diesel-powered vehicles was due in part to fraudulent efforts to conceal the amount of harmful pollutants they emitted, will similar revelations at other companies call into questions the country’s transformation from “the sick man of Europe” to an export-driven economic powerhouse?
慕尼黑—大众丑闻让人们对德国生产模式产生了质疑。既然大众公司柴油汽车的成功部分要归因于通过作弊隐瞒汽车排放有害污染物的量，那么其他公司类似丑闻的曝光是否会让人质疑德国从“欧洲病夫”向出口拉动型经济巨人的转型？