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EU Takes Steps Toward Legalising Class Actions
The legislation, known as the Representative Actions Directive, would allow consumers in the EU's 28 member nations to launch common claims for compensation for faulty or illegal consumer goods.
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Four years after the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal in which Volkswagen and other European carmakers installed software to hide vehicle tailpipe emissions and get around strict pollution laws, some EU member countries still do not offer consumers the right to launch class-action lawsuits.
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