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...largest European neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning off its gas supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed in the final days of Gerhard Schröder's Chancellorship to build a pipeline bypassing Poland - thus making it possible to turn off energy supplies to Poland without affecting Germany. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski likened the deal to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact carving up his country on the eve of World...
...historical fear of its giant neighbor to the east, and partly because it worries about losing out if Russia and Germany work closely together. Germany, meanwhile, which is Russia's biggest West European customer, seems to be pushing toward greater reliance on Russian sources. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has taken a job as head of the supervisory board of a joint venture between Gazprom and two German firms that is building an underwater gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. Roland Götz, head of the Russia department at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs...
...Iraq invasion in 2003. More surprising are the report's allegations that countries where the Iraq war was far more controversial have also colluded in the "spider's web" of U.S. torture. Germany, for example, refused to support America's adventures in Iraq when it was governed by Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats. Yet if the report is right, on at least two occasions, Germany allowed rendition operations to be staged at its airports. Italian prosecutors have concluded that their country, too, participated in that operation; a trial in Milan of 22 American alleged cia operatives may begin...
...conference. Stasi victims in the audience greeted that statement with loud jeers. Germany was one of the first countries to provide public access to its communist-era secret police files - an estimated 6 million were made available in 1992. But last week, a commission established by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to consider new ways to examine the legacy of the G.D.R. recommended that the Stasi archive containing millions of personal files on ordinary citizens be closed to public view. The proposal drew accusations that Germany was trying to bury its past, although commission members insisted they merely wanted...
...strongly than before. It's not been a winning strategy. According to the latest Forsa poll, backing for the party is down to 28%, from 39% six months ago (Merkel's cdu stands at 38%). The spd is also suffering fallout from the tarnished image of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who took a €250,000 job with a subsidiary of the Russian giant Gazprom shortly after leaving office, raising questions about his judgement; and because its ministers have been associated with unpopular government pronouncements. Wolfgang Thierse, a veteran spd deputy and vice president of the Bundestag, says...