The World’s Biggest Carmaker Is Getting Into Politics
- ‘United Europe is our future,’ personnel chief Kilian says
- VW plans to call out the vote in European Parliament ballot
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Volkswagen AG made an impassioned foray into politics by vowing to mobilize its workforce to vote in upcoming European Parliament elections and calling for the bloc’s residents to “put an end to separatist movements.”
VW is “a European company through and through,” Gunnar Kilian, the German automaker’s personnel chief who overseas about 480,000 employees across the European Union, said in a speech in Brussels late Monday. With the elections looming at the end of May, Kilian said the world’s biggest carmaker will “formulate a clear call for votes in the election because our democracy needs every vote.”