Goodbye to car manufacturing: Volkswagen could change its business model in these factories

The Volkswagen Group, a symbol of the German car industry, is at the heart of a historic transformation: several of its plants in Germany could stop manufacturing cars to become centres for the production of armaments and military vehicles.This possibility, which until recently seemed unthinkable, has the support of the new German government and responds both to the crisis in the automotive sector and to the rise in defence demand in Europe.