Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s trip to Moscow and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has sparked sharp criticism from a number of German politicians.
Globalinfo.az reports that the “Bild” publication released the information.
Katrin Göring-Eckardt, a representative of the Greens party, called Schröder’s move “a disgrace for Germany” and “a betrayal of Europe”.
“It is a blow to peace. But unfortunately, I expected nothing else from him,” she wrote on the social network X.
Member of the European Parliament Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann called the former chancellor “Germany’s most shameless pensioner” and described what happened as “an unprecedented disgrace”.
Dennis Radtke, head of the social wing of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), also criticised Schröder.
He stressed that the former chancellor had earlier not testified before the parliamentary inquiry committee due to his health, but later travelled to Moscow.
Note that on 9 October the Kremlin released a photo of Putin together with Schröder from an event held to mark Putin’s birthday.
According to the report, after Putin learned that Schröder had come to Moscow in connection with the business of the German company “Globus”, he invited the former chancellor to his home.
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