Volkswagen’s Skoda Would Cut 3,000 Jobs If ‘Euro 7’ Implemented in Current Form

Visitors check a Skoda vehicle at a sales event in Shanghai on May 5, 2020. Yilei Sun/Reuters

PRAGUE—Czech carmaker Skoda would have to cut 3,000 jobs and axe some models if the European Union’s “Euro 7” emissions scheme is implemented in its current form, a Skoda board member warned in a TV debate on Sunday.

The proposed Euro 7 law, which EU countries and lawmakers will start negotiating this year, would tighten limits on the emission by cars of health-harming pollutants, including nitrogen oxides.