German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces Wednesday a grilling by lawmakers investigating if her government shielded Volkswagen from regulators despite knowing the auto giant was carrying out emissions cheating.
The parliamentary committee was launched after VW -- Europe's largest carmaker with 12 brands ranging from luxury Porsche to lower-end Skoda -- admitted in September 2015 to fitting some 11 million dieselRead more
A US national security regulator has approved China National Chemical Corp.’s planned $43-billion (38 billion-euro) takeover of Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta, the two companies said.
ChemChina and Syngenta said in a joint statement that they had “received clearance on their proposed transaction from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS).”
They said a number of anti-trustRead more