The judges of the Braunschweig regional court are not to be envied. In a criminal case they have to decide whether works councils at the top of VW have received too much money. Former works council chairman Bernd Osterloh received a proud 750,000 euros in his best year. The HR managers, who are now in the dock, approved the payments because VW considered it appropriate and legally verified. The public prosecutor's office is certainly too puristic if it takes Osterloh's income as a measure of what he would have earned had he stayed in his old position in 1990. In 30 years, a works council could have made a career, an ambitious one like Osterloh. If it weren't for the special case of VW with its power network consisting of the owner clan, the state, management and an influential works council.Give and take is an integral part of corporate policy in Wolfsburg. Aren't there really structures at VW that suggest that the actors are too close? It takes revenge that the Works Constitution Act is so imprecise when it comes to remuneration. The court will decide in October. It will not solve the basic problem in the VW system.