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Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) spent a total of 48.7 million euros on external consultants in 2019.
The newspapers of the Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft write that this comes from a current report by the federal government.
Accordingly, the expenditure for consultants increased by seven percent or 3.19 million euros compared to the previous year.
According to the report, the largest items were the truck toll, the development of the motorway company and the failed car toll.
Around eight million euros flowed into the so-called infrastructure tax, which was tipped by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in June 2019 and thus put on hold.
For the Greens, who requested the report, the numbers are evidence of the irresponsible use of taxpayers' money.
"The costs for management consultants and large law firms have shot through the roof since Andreas Scheuer took office," said the budgetary spokesman for the Green parliamentary group, Sven-Christian Kindler, the papers.
The minister hires private consultants for so many projects that "one wonders whether he can even run the house without expensive outside assistance."
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