From its conception, the German government’s plan to introduce a car toll has been reminiscent of the Theatre of the Absurd. A pet project solely of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), it made its way into the 2013 coalition agreement as a trade-off – while all parties agreed that no German citizen should pay more for using the country’s roads than before.
The result was a Byzantine law crafted by Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU). It claimed not to discriminate…