VW emission scandal

I was reading an article the other day in the online edition of BBC News and it talks about the VW emission scandal.

I thought you might be interested because one of the most successful carmakers has caused an immense damage.

It has now been a topic for many days which directly affects 363,000 vehicles only in Austria.

Basically, the article reports that Volkswagen manipulated the exhaust values of 11 million vehicles worldwide.

It also says that VW did this due to heavy regulations in the US. The persons responsible admitted that there have been manipulations since 2008.

As you might know, the current crisis is not only a severe shock for VW but for the whole industry. There are rumours that the scandal could hit the brand VW very hard in the long-term.

What interested me most was that the share has fallen by approximately 37 percent since the beginning of the crisis.

What shocked me most was that in 2016 in Austria 363,000 vehicles will have to be repaired.

What do you think about the scandal?

Regards,
Julian

Advertising

Hi everybody!

In our last English lesson we were talking about advertising. I have found a nice advertisement, let me describe it:

In the ad a product is advertised. The advertiser is the International Watch Company (IWC).

A picture, two texts, two colours a slogan and a brand name are used.

The ad contains a picture of an IWC clock, a headline, and a product description.

The ad tries to convey the message that the IWC clocks are quality goods and luxury watches.

The ad employs a lot of text. The ad uses mainly two colours, black and white. It looks gallant.

The ad tries to catch the attention with the help of the misogynistic headline.

Hope you enjoyed my post.

Regards,

Julian

Local elections in Perg

Hi everybody!

On September 27^th, 2015 the mayoral election, the local election and the state election took place in Upper Austria. Today I especially talk about the result of the local election.

The local parliament in Perg has 37 seats. With 78,45% the voter participation was below the average of 80%. In total 6,403 people were entitled to vote.

Here is the result of 2015:

Here is the result of 2009:

In 2015 the People's Party won the election. With 2,418 votes they reached 49,8%. However, there was a decrease in the number of votes by 5.54% compared to 2009.

The Freedom Party reached the second place with 21.17%. They got 1,028 votes which represent 21.17% of all votes. They are the big winner of the election because their number of votes increased by 9.81% compared to the last election in 2009.

On the third place there are the Social Democrats. They are the big loser of the election because they lost 14.43% of their votes compare to 2009.

With 493 votes the Green Party reached 10.15% in 2015.

Here is a list of the seats in the local parliament:

People Party reached	19
Social Democrats reached	7
Freedom Party reached	8
Green Party	3

Regards,

Julian