BERLIN — The German authorities is contemplating whether or not it could make former Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer foot a minimum of a part of the quarter-billion euro compensation it has to pay a personal firm over a failed plan to introduce freeway tolls.
Scheuer, who was in workplace from 2018 till 2021, had insisted on the overall regardless of skilled warnings that it might unfairly penalize drivers from different EU nations. A European Union courtroom dominated it unlawful in 2019, prompting a prolonged arbitration process with the corporate employed to arrange the toll system that led to a $267-million settlement final week.
Scheuer’s successor, Volker Wissing, advised German weekly Bild am Sonntag that taxpayers shouldn’t must bear all the price of “this serious political mistake.”
“We will look the legal situation very closely and carefully examine whether and to what amount compensation claims (against Scheuer) are possible,” he was quoted saying Sunday.
Scheuer is a member of the conservative, Bavaria-only Christian Social Union that’s a part of the largest opposition bloc in Germany’s federal parliament.
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