Meet the man behind the EU's emissions cheating rules

In 1997, the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

The Internet had roughly 120 million users worldwide, the portable MP3 player was a novelty, and the most exciting application available on mobile phones was the game Snake on a Nokia.

Certainly few people would have expected that manufacturers would one day introduce software that could turn off the emissions filtering system in cars.

But a German centre-left member of the European Parliament, Bernd Lange, had notic...