VW needs new structures to avoid future scandals: German government spokesman

Germany expects Volkswagen to clear up the latest irregularities in a transparent way, adding the carmaker needs to set up new structures to ensure that such a scandal does not happen again, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. "VW has a duty to clear this up transparently and comprehensively," Steffen Seibert, the spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel, told a regular government news conference in Berlin. "The chancellor has said several times in the past she expects future structures to stop something like this from happening again.