If the management gets its way, the Opel plant in Bochum will close in two rather than four years.

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Is this not drearily famaliar or what? Could have been GM or Ford. So much for socialist Europe, the mixed economy scam of the Social Democrats. Who exactly is it that we should emulate? "If only we could be like the Germans!" Yeah, well....