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“Things have changed a lot since 2009,” said Stefan Bratzel, the director of the Center of Automotive Management near Cologne. Due to the diesel emissions scandal, “a lot of trust and confidence has been lost”, he added, making it almost impossible for politicians to directly subsidise the sector, which supports approximately 3m jobs in Germany alone.