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Gerhard Schröder to be stripped of privileges for not cutting ties with Russia
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 19, 2022 11:47am |
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| Author | Philip Oltermann |
| News Date | Thursday, May 19, 2022 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder will lose some of his post-office privileges after failing to cut his links with Russian energy companies over the Ukraine war, the Bundestag’s budgetary committee has decided.
Schröder, who was German head of government from 1998 until 2005, will be stripped of his office and staff, which cost about 419,000 euros (£354,500) in taxpayers’ money in 2021.
The motion, which was passed on Thursday afternoon with support from Schröder’s own Social Democratic party (SPD), the Greens, and the Free Democratic party (FDP), does not name the politician’s Kremlin connections or stance on the Ukraine war, most likely to avoid legal challenges.
Instead, the motion argues that the former leader no longer fulfils any continuing obligation as a statesperson and therefore does not require an office and staff to do so.
The main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), backed the move even though it had also called on the government to cut the ex-chancellor’s pension, equivalent to an annual salary of about 100,000 euros.
Schröder will keep his pension payments as well as his security detail. |
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