Here is a roundup of the top stories from and about Germany on September 21, 2026: Tired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add DW as a Preferred Source on Google. A perjury trial against former Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer kicked off at the Berlin District Court on Monday. Scheuer and his co-defendant Gerhard Schulz, a former state secretary, are accused of having lied to a parliamentary committee investigating a failed scheme some seven years ago to levy a highway toll on foreign motorists. The two are accused of lying to the committee about having signed a contract with a company to run the toll operations despite knowing that the European Court of Justice (ICJ) was likely to declare the scheme illegal.
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