Tag: Andrew Scheuer
CSU toll plan costs taxpayers 243 million euros
Andreas Scheuer (CSU) The transport minister at the time was apparently certain that his toll plans would withstand an examination by the ECJ. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The infrastructure tax that…
CSU toll plan costs taxpayers 243 million euros
Car toll The toll should primarily ask foreign drivers to pay. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The infrastructure tax that failed in 2019, also known as the “foreigners’ toll”, is costing taxpayers…
Expansion backlog of 1&1 is larger than known
1&1 boss Ralph Dommermuth The 1&1 boss sees his business partners as primarily responsible for the development backlog of his own network, (Photo: Michael Englert for Handelsblatt) Hamburg United Internet…
How Volker Wissing’s officials bury a research center
Volker Wissing The traffic light coalition had agreed on a realignment of the center. (Photo: IMAGO/Mike Schmidt) Berlin The plan for the German Center for Mobility of the Future is…
Toll disaster will cost taxpayers millions
highway toll The secret court of arbitration will soon decide how many million euros the federal government has to pay because it unfairly terminated the car toll operator in 2019.…
More cell phone masts, fewer competitors – How the telecom industry ripped off the federal government
Andreas Scheuer and the mobile phone companies Internal documents show that the federal government, in the person of the then Transport and Digital Minister, deliberately sacrificed tougher regulation. (Photo: Imago,…
Volker Wissing stops the project of his CSU predecessor
Berlin If the Ministry of Transport was occupied by a CSU politician, a large sum of tax money from the federal coffers often ended up in their Bavarian homeland. It…
Andreas Scheuer: Investigations against former Minister of Transport
Andrew Scheuer Statements before the investigative committee on car tolls could be fatal to the CSU politician. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Berlin public prosecutor’s office has initiated investigations against ex-transport…
Deutsche Bahn: Network expansion in the Chemical Triangle is halting
Berlin The cancellation unexpectedly hit BASF, OMV, Wacker Chemie and other industrial companies in south-eastern Bavaria. And the justification caused confusion: The rail line from Munich via Mühldorf to Burghausen…
Which ministers had to go and who was allowed to stay
Dusseldorf Two ministers recently had to resign. In addition to the NRW Minister of Agriculture Ursula Heinen-Esser (CDU), Federal Minister for Family Affairs Anne Spiegel (Greens) resigned on Monday. Both…
Which ministers had to go and who was allowed to stay
Dusseldorf Two ministers recently had to resign. In addition to the NRW Minister of Agriculture Ursula Heinen-Esser (CDU), Federal Minister for Family Affairs Anne Spiegel (Greens) resigned on Monday. Both…
The debate about fiber optic expansion is becoming a political issue
Berlin The first quarter of the year ends in a few weeks – and with it the deadline by which Federal Digital Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) wants to present his…