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Christian Wulff, premier of Lower Saxony and member of the supervisory board of Volkswagen AG, and his wife Bettina pose for media at a Volkswagen vehicle during the annual shareholders meeting of Volkswagen AG in Hamburg April 23, 2009. Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn hailed cooperation with. majority owner Porsche and reiterated on Thursday he expected a group profit in 2009 despite a car market slump.