德国政界人士严厉批评奥迪首席执行官格诺特·德尔纳上周六与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普一同出现在竞选集会上的行为。
German politicians have sharply criticized Audi CEO Gernot Döllner's appearance alongside U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday.
“积极为一个对德国发动贸易战的独裁者助选，标志着大众集团跌至新低，”社会民主党议员、该党交通政策发言人伊莎贝尔·卡德马托里表示。
“Actively campaigning for an autocrat who is waging a trade war against Germany marks a new low for the VW Group,” said Isabel Cademartori, a Social Democratic Party lawmaker and the party’s transport policy spokesperson.
“这是一种耻辱，”她补充道，“尤其是考虑到大众集团的历史。”奥迪是大众汽车的子公司，大众汽车于1937年由纳粹党的德国劳工阵线创立。卡德马托里接着指责奥迪“为特朗普的战略背书”，即“利用贸易战将工作岗位从欧洲转移到美国”。在美国佐治亚州的集会上，特朗普宣布奥迪计划投资约40亿美元新建一座工厂，并首次在美国开始生产汽车。德尔纳与特朗普一同登台，并感谢了他的支持。
"This is a disgrace," she added, "especially considering the history of the VW Group." Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, which was founded in 1937 by the Nazi Party's German Labor Front. Cademartori went on to accuse Audi of "validating Trump’s strategy" of “using a trade war to shift jobs from Europe to the United States.”At the rally in the U.S. state of Georgia, Trump announced Audi plans to invest around $4 billion to build a new factory and begin producing cars in the U.S. for the first time. Döllner joined Trump on stage and thanked him for his support.
这一宣布之际，大众汽车正因在德国进行大规模重组而面临深刻危机，预计将关闭工厂并大规模裁员。
The announcement comes as Volkswagen faces a deep crisis amid a major restructuring in Germany, with factory closures and mass layoffs expected.
来自中右翼基督教民主联盟的欧洲议会议员丹尼斯·拉德克也抨击了德尔纳出席共和党竞选集会的行为。“唐纳德·特朗普的政策正在严重损害德国工业，包括汽车工业，”他告诉德国媒体《商报》。
MEP Dennis Radtke from the center-right Christian Democratic Union party also lambasted Döllner’s appearance at the Republican campaign rally. "Donald Trump's policies are massively damaging German industry, including the automotive industry," he told German media outlet Handelsblatt.
“德国企业在海外投资最初是一个完全正常且可以理解的过程。然而，将此变成唐纳德·特朗普的竞选造势活动，令人不安且可悲，”他补充道。
"The fact that German companies invest abroad is initially a completely normal and understandable process. However, to turn this into an election campaign staging for Donald Trump is disturbing and pathetic," he added.
德国工会领袖也加入了对德尔纳的谴责。德国最大工业工会IG Metall的第一主席克里斯蒂安妮·本纳周一表示：“格诺特·德尔纳在美国展示自己和奥迪的方式极其令人尴尬，在政治上不可接受，也有损公司的尊严——最重要的是，有损奥迪员工的尊严。”
German union leaders joined in the condemnation of Döllner. Christiane Benner, first chair of IG Metall, Germany's biggest industrial trade union, said Monday: “The way in which Gernot Döllner presented himself and Audi in the USA is highly embarrassing, politically unacceptable, and unworthy of the company — and, above all, unworthy of the people who work at Audi.
她补充说：“德尔纳公然违反了公司自身的内部政策，这些政策明确要求在选举前保持政治中立。”
“Döllner is flagrantly violating the company’s own internal policies, which explicitly mandate political neutrality in the lead-up to elections,” she added.
奥迪在周日发布的一份声明中表示，“美国为奥迪提供了可观的增长潜力。本地生产是全面增长战略的核心组成部分。”该公司还表示，“计划中的投资是对美国的长期承诺。”今年早些时候，大众汽车首席执行官奥利弗·布鲁姆将该公司十年来最差的财务业绩部分归咎于特朗普政府加征的关税。
In a statement released Sunday, Audi said the “U.S. offers considerable growth potential for Audi. Local production is a central component of a comprehensive growth strategy.”The company added that “the planned investment is a long-term commitment to the United States.”Earlier this year, Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume blamed the firm's worst financial results in a decade partially on tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.