One of the more unexplored issues from the Volkswagen emissions-testing scandal is why no EU regulator or member country’s regulators discovered the massive fraud and deception engaged in by VW in its 10-year campaign around its defeat device. Instead it fell to investigators in the United States and this country’s Environmental Protection Agency to discover the company had broken the law. EU regulators were no doubt humiliated that their U.S. counterparts brought the matter first to the public’s attention and then brought the first regulatory actions. If the EU regulators were not humiliated, they well should have been.
