MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : „PUTIN’S OLIGARCH GERHARD“ (SPD-GERMANY) & UKRAINE SANCTIONS

Ukraine pleads for sanctions against the old chancellor

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  19 March 2018  – The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo
Klimkin has raised the question of sanctions against former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Klimkin said that Bild-Zeitung , Schröder   was “for Putin the world’s most important lobbyist”. Therefore, should “tested how the EU can act here “. In the face of increasing

Tensions between Russia and the West say it “important that there are sanctions not only against Russian   Government members and Russian state companies exist, as well
against those who are pushing Putin’s projects abroad “.

“The most important oligarch of Putin” Schröder was after the end of his Chancellorship changed to the company Nord Stream in 2005, the one Gas pipeline from Russia through the Baltic Sea directly to Germany plans.
Nord Stream is majority owned by the Russian energy group Gazprom. The Project is heavily criticized by Kiev because it should allow Russia to gas to export directly to Western Europe, without leaving Ukraine as a transit country has access to it. In 2017 Schröder became the boss of the Supervisory Board of Russian energy company Rosneft elected.

Also in one Opinion of the American Wall Street Journal Schröder had been described as “the most important oligarch Putin”. Schröder is the most reliable western defender of any Russian
Rule violation, for example, at the annexation of the Crimea. On the topic
Energy policy he works as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rosneft like a Trojan horse within the EU for Russian interests. So far without consequences in the public discussion “The Wall Street
journal is in many parts right, “said the CDU foreign expert Elmar Brok the image : It was “a scandal that one Former Federal Chancellor now represents the interests of Putin “and” amazingly “that this” so far without consequences in the public discussion has remained “.

Greens MP Cem Özdemir told the newspaper, Schröder   As Chancellor, I did a lot for Germany. “All the more annoying it is now that he has mutated into Putin’s propagandist. ”
Ex-Chancellor got on the payroll “of an authoritarian ruler like Putin lost nothing “. The SPD should be clear That Schröder no longer speaks for them, said Özdemir: “Who books Schröder must know that he gets a Putin mouthpiece.” www.mesop.de