The subject of cars arouses emotions, even among many MEPs. Not so with Bernd Lange (SPD). The head of the Trade Committee and the Committee of Committee Chairs conducts his political business in an extremely level-headed manner. For example, as co-author of the German SPD group’s car paper. Even when it comes to tariffs on EVs from China, which he supports, or Trump’s tariffs on cars made in Germany, which he firmly rejects – the man from Lower Saxony always keeps his cool.