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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8519

6 August 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport

05/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to Frankfurter Allegemeine, on Tuesday, Commissioner Günter Verheugen, supports Manfred Stolpe, the German Minister for Transport, considering that Germany can create a toll for heavy goods lorries on 31 August as planned (the Commission thought that the "State Aid" investigation that is on going suspended implementation of the toll; see EUROPE 26 July p 10). The newspaper adds that Ms de Palacio had proposed a compromise to the German government: if...