Comment: Does Volkswagen need a second Peter Hartz?

Volkswagen is in crisis. Plant closures in Germany and, for the first time, compulsory redundancies are possible. Anyone who has a sense of déjà vu now will certainly be thinking of the severe crisis of the 1990s - and the man who helped to overcome it. Peter Hartz, the personnel manager who was later convicted for the works council scandal, the inventor of the Hartz reforms that brought Germany a decade of economic recovery. Could he have thought of anything? (aum)