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The German government is considering whether it can get former transport minister Andreas Scheuer to provide at least part of the quarter-billion-euro compensation it must pay to a private company over a failed highway toll scheme.
Scheuer, who was in office from 2018 until 2021, insisted on the total despite warnings from experts that he would unfairly penalize drivers from other EU countries. An EU court ruled it illegal in 2019, prompting a lengthy arbitration procedure with the company hiring to create the fee system that ended in a €243m ($267m) settlement last week.
Shaur’s successor, Volker Wessing, told the German weekly photo on sunday That taxpayers not have to bear all the cost of “this grave political mistake”.
“We will look closely at the legal situation and carefully examine whether compensation claims (against Scheuer) are possible and for what amount,” he was quoted as saying Sunday.
Scheuer is a member of Bavaria’s only conservative Christian Social Union which is part of the largest opposition bloc in the German Federal Parliament.
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