Auto industry pushes £500bn road maintenance plan as 'green' initiative

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Critics react with disbelief as car companies suggest EU should spend public money to resurface roads so that mandatory car emissions cuts are not required

Europe's car industry has suggested that the continent's entire road network be resurfaced at a cost of hundreds of billions of euros as a "climate initiative" so that it does not need to make mandatory...

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