Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is currently under fire on several fronts. In particular, his unwavering closeness to his beer and football buddy Vladimir Putin has many comrades in the SPD foaming. Now there may be new trouble, it’s about Schröder’s office in the Bundestag.
According to a media report, in the course of deliberations on the federal budget for 2023, the budget committee of the Bundestag also wants to discuss the expenses for the Bundestag office of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD). As the “Bild” reported from informed circles, the budget item for Schröder’s office in the budget of the chancellery should be reduced because it was orphaned.
A spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group told the newspaper: “We are currently reviewing and revising the applicable regulations for the equipment of former chancellors.”
Schröder has seven employees so far. According to “Bild”, the expenses recently amounted to a little more than 400,000 euros a year. Accordingly, the number of office spaces should be reduced. The former chancellor currently has six rooms in the properties of the German Bundestag.
Schröder has been heavily criticized for not giving up his posts at Russian energy companies despite the Russian attack on Ukraine. He is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Russian state energy giant Rosneft and chairman of the shareholders’ committee of the pipeline company Nord Stream. He is also still entered in the relevant commercial register as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nord Stream 2 AG.
Schröder is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Russian state energy giant Rosneft and chairman of the shareholders’ committee of the pipeline company Nord Stream. He is also still entered in the relevant commercial register as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nord Stream 2 AG.
In his first interview since the beginning of the war, which was published in the “New York Times” over the weekend, Schröder called the war a mistake, but did not distance himself from his longtime friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Party leader Saskia Esken then asked Schröder to leave the party after almost 60 years of SPD membership.
In the meantime, the SPD politician Michael Roth does not even rule out EU sanctions against the former chancellor. “Another indication of the tragedy of the Schröder case is that we must seriously discuss sanctions against a former Chancellor who has become a Russian energy lobbyist,” said the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag of the German Press Agency. “The European Union is obliged to keep checking who is jointly responsible for this war, who justifies and defends it or plays it down. Ultimately, the EU must decide on that.”
Source: Stern
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