Bundestag advises: Former Chancellor Schröder is now threatened with these consequences

Cologne City Gazette Bundestag advises: Former Chancellor Schröder is now threatened with these consequences ksta - 1 hour ago According to a media report, in the course of deliberations on the federal budget for 2023, the budget committee of the Bundestag also wants to discuss the expenses for the Bundestag office of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD). As the "Bild" (Tuesday edition) reported from informed circles, the budget item for Schröder's office in the budget of the Chancellor's Office should be reduced because it was orphaned. A spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group told the newspaper: "We are currently reviewing and revising the applicable regulations for the equipment of former chancellors." Schröder has seven employees so far. According to “Bild”, the expenses recently amounted to a little more than 400,000 euros a year. Accordingly, the number of office spaces should be reduced. The former chancellor currently has six rooms in the properties of the German Bundestag. SPD politician brings sanctions against Schröder into the discussion SPD politician Michael Roth does not rule out EU sanctions against Schröder. "Another indication of the tragedy of the Schröder case is that we must seriously discuss sanctions against a former Chancellor who has become a Russian energy lobbyist," said the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag of the German Press Agency. “The European Union has to keep checking who is jointly responsible for this war, who justifies and defends it or plays it down. Ultimately, the EU must decide on this.” Schröder has been heavily criticized for not giving up his posts at Russian energy companies despite the Russian attack on Ukraine. In his first interview since the beginning of the war, published in the New York Times over the weekend, he called the war a mistake but did not distance himself from his longtime friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Party leader Saskia Esken then asked Schröder on Monday to resign from the party after almost 60 years of SPD membership. "At the latest after this underground interview in the "New York Times" the chapter SPD and Gerhard Schröder is over once and for all," said Roth. "It hurts me and it embarrasses me as someone who twice elected Gerhard Schröder Chancellor." Not only the SPD had to bear the damage, but all of Germany. "And that's why I'm making the appeal to spare this party a month-long party order procedure and to draw the conclusion myself, because he should feel that he is no longer wanted in our party."