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08/20/2025August 20, 2025Ex-transport minister confirms legal charges
Andreas Scheuer, who was federal minister of transportation and digital infrastructure from 2018 to 2021, has confirmed media reports that he has been charged with making a false statement to the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament.
Scheuer is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the conservative party of current Chancellor Friedrich Merz as well as former longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Indeed, it was under Merkel that Scheuer served as a Cabinet member, handling the final stages of Merkel’s ill-fated attempt to introduce tolls on Germany’s highways.
An extremely unpopular proposal both at home and abroad, Scheuer is accused of lying to the Bundestag about having signed a contract with a company to run the toll operations despite knowing that the European Court of Justice was likely to declare the scheme illegal.
Scheuer has denied the charges.
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