EconomyGermany news: VW to step up cost-cutting program

Volkswagen plans to accelerate its ongoing cost-cutting program, its passenger-car brand chief Thomas Schäfer said as automotive workers protested across Germany to demand job protection. Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, called the Left Party’s win in Berlin’s state election a “direct existential danger” to the city’s Jewish community.

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