The former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will be nominated as a member of its Supervisory Board Gazpromannounced today the Russian energy giant in St. Petersburg.
The regular General Assembly is scheduled for June 30, and Mr. Schroeder intends to replace Timur Kulimbayevson-in-law of the former president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayevwhich was overthrown in January.
Gerhard Schroeder, 77, is already chairman of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline company and chairman of the board of Nord Stream 2, as well as chairman of the supervisory board of state-owned energy company Rosneft.
Mr Schroeder recently criticized Ukraine’s demands for a surrender of arms, calling for “a cessation of hostilities”. In addition, he expressed Moscow’s dissatisfaction with NATO moves in the Baltic Sea and Poland, and his stance was criticized even within the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in Hamburg, Christoph Plus, even demanded that Mr. Schroeder be stripped of his Bundestag office privilege. “His behavior is just shameful and unworthy of a former chancellor”said Mr. Mr. Plos in the magazine The game.
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