Germany’s government is politically responsible for helping Opel, its leader said on Friday (13 March).

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“If we think about Opel, the conditions on the links with General Motors and others are so complicated that we have a political responsibility to be helpful on a possible separation, for example, of General Motors and Opel or partial independence,” Reuters quoted chancellor Angela Merkel as saying at a news conference in Munich.


But she also said the state would only support companies which had positive future prospects.

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