> 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 sen

> 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).