Sanctions for Putin confidante Schröder: No desire for revenge – but please clear rules now
Created: 05/20/2022, 09:58 am
By: Christian Deutschländer
With a view to Gerhard Schröder, binding rules should be laid down for former heads of government, comments Christian Deutschländer.
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The Bundestag has reacted to Gerhard Schröder's Moscow relations.
Binding rules for former chancellors must now be drawn up, comments Christian Deutschländer.
Even ex-chancellors have a right to work, at least not an obligation to be apathetic.
And (even if that is now unpopular): you are not overpaid during your term of office, measured by the responsibility, work and extreme public pressure - every breakfast director in the industry would find the chancellor's salary meager.
Schröder sanctions: comprehensible consideration without thirst for revenge
Ex-politicians have only one duty in business: not to betray their own state, and therefore not to damage the reputation of their office.
It is precisely this requirement that Gerhard Schröder never tried to comply with when he threw himself on Putin's chest.
The least of the problems is that he is thereby shattering his own political legacy – including major achievements.
The Bundestag is now reacting late, very late, but at least correctly.
The state office and the employees who fled from Schröder in February will be eliminated.
The suspicion that these resources are being misused to serve the despot in Moscow is too great.
Retirement benefits (legal entitlement!) and personal protection are not affected.
This is an understandable consideration without a desire for revenge.
Russia scandal with consequences: According to Schröder, clear rules are needed for former chancellors
It is important that the next step is to create binding rules for alumni.
Clearer parental leave periods are needed;
Bans on acting against German interests;
and, of course, it is imperative that the income be offset against the income from the tax pot.
Christian Deutschlaender
