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It was rather a project by then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to make sure he had a nice retirement fund and was indeed hired by Russian Gazprom right after he le
by bernulli 6y ago
It was rather a project by then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to make sure he had a nice retirement fund and was indeed hired by Russian Gazprom right after he left office. Now the question is whether Germany honors these arrangements or not.
- eqvinox 6y agoIn case anyone is wondering about sources re. this, cf. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream#Nord_Stream_2 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream#Nord_Stream_2 Vorsitzender des Verwaltungsrats der Projektgesellschaft ist Gerhard Schröder.[75] Wie auch schon bei der ersten Pipeline wirkte Schröder als Wirtschaftslobbyist und organisierte wiederholt Treffen zwischen dem Geschäftsleiter von Nord Stream Matthias Warnig und Schröders SPD-Kollegen und Außenminister Sigmar Gabriel sowie zwischen Gazprom-Chef Alexej Miller und Wirtschaftsministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD).[76][77] [75] http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/nord-stream-2-neuer-job-fuer-gerhard-schroeder-bei-gazprom-tochter/14643886.html http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/nord-stream-2-neuer-job-f... [76] https://www1.wdr.de/daserste/monitor/sendungen/nordstream-100.html https://www1.wdr.de/daserste/monitor/sendungen/nordstream-10... [77] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/themen/agenda/pipeline-nord-stream-2-wie-gerhard-schroeder-als-tueroeffner-fuer-gazprom-agiert/20739366.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/themen/agenda/pipeline-nord-stre...
- wyldfire 6y agoKönnen Sie bitte auf Englisch übersetzen?
- eqvinox 6y agoI thought about adding a "y'all know how to use Google Translate" joke at the end of my post, and decided against it. I guess you made the joke for me...
- Udo_Schmitz 6y agoSure: The chairman of the project company's board of directors is Gerhard Schröder.[75] As with the first pipeline, Schröder acted as a business lobbyist, repeatedly organizing meetings between Nord Stream's managing director Matthias Warnig and Schröder's SPD colleague and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, as well as between Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Economics Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD).[76][77]
- bernulli 6y agoThank you for adding substance to my post!
- spaetzleesser 6y agoSchröder is an embarrassment. Usually high-level German politicians retire and stay out of things. I am very afraid that more will follow his example making tons of money with borderline corrupt activities.
- dathinab 6y ago> Usually high-level German politicians retire and stay out of things. Not really, at least not in the last 15 or so years. It has become pretty common for senators to later end up in similar (through less powerful) positions then him. Let's be honest Germans goverment is supper screwed over currently by laws which allow forms of lobism which should be treated as corruption and handled with multi year prison sentence. There is a reason why Germany is on some corruption indices pretty high in the top (of most corrupt countries).
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agohttps://portaleco.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/bundesdruckerei-und-goldfinger-schily/ https://portaleco.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/bundesdruckerei-u...
- spaetzleesser 6y ago“Not really, at least not in the last 15 or so years.l I guess I have been out of the for longer than that :(.