reuters.com: Germany's new road toll to cost foreign drivers up to 130 euros (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/30/germany-politics-toll-idUSL5N0SP50J20141030)
QuoteThe German government introduced a controversial road toll on Thursday which will force foreign car drivers to pay up to 130 euros a year for using Germany's Autobahn motorways.
QuoteThe plan, intended to help Germany fund the upkeep of its transport infrastructure which is used by millions of foreign vehicles, may yet face a legal challenge in Brussels for discriminating against foreign motorists.
QuoteAfter months of heated debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt dropped an original idea to raise the fee on all roads.
The EU courts will be happy with it as is Germany and its not like their Government can ever be racist ;)
Actually the EU courts will be happy as they are happy with Vignettes in other member states. And the foreign truck charging in Germany (and other countries). Though the truck charging is a pilot for the EU-wide road user charging policy that Brussels keeps pushing for so the EU wouldn't care if it was covered in swastikas...
Quote from: english si on November 05, 2014, 06:48:52 AM
The EU courts will be happy with it as is Germany and its not like their Government can ever be racist ;)
Actually the EU courts will be happy as they are happy with Vignettes in other member states. And the foreign truck charging in Germany (and other countries). Though the truck charging is a pilot for the EU-wide road user charging policy that Brussels keeps pushing for so the EU wouldn't care if it was covered in swastikas...
Wasn't the charging of commercial vehicles (sorry,
heavy goods vehicles and
buses) directed (at least in part) at such vehicles from Russia?
Quote from: cpzilliacus on November 06, 2014, 05:28:51 PMWasn't the charging of commercial vehicles (sorry, heavy goods vehicles and buses) directed (at least in part) at such vehicles from Russia?
Maybe, but then they'd have just made it non-EU vehicles, which isn't the case.
Does that mean British are exempt from paying? :bigass: :colorful: :-D :rofl:
Quote from: Neddyfram on November 13, 2014, 12:01:30 PMDoes that mean British are exempt from paying?
Nope: the very opposite.