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To learn more about continuous compliance, visit vertexink.com. Earlier this month, the F.T.'s Patricia Nilsen hopped on a train to go to a small city in Germany called Wolfsburg.

It's quite a modest town. It's not, you know, it doesn't look particularly rich.

But Wolfsburg is known best for being the headquarters of Europe's largest carmaker,

Volkswagen.

When you roll into Volsburg,

you see the company's old power plants,

so there are these four large chimneys.

It is the image of German industry. The town is very much shaped by the factory and life around it.

There's even a Volkswagen themed park called the Autostat. Tourists can test drive new car models on all-terrain tracks or visit a museum dedicated to the company's history.

And people come from other places in the country

to get a job at Volkswagen.

People like Benny Littau.

So, a first in Vol and yeah, what's that?

Benny,

been,

that the expression by us by us

on the special

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