The former German Chancellor, targeted by a procedure for excluding his party because of his proximity to Vladimir Putin, evokes in an interview the “gigantic consequences” of the energy crisis for his country.
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“Why should I apologize?” Glass and half-soup lips, Gerhard Schröder taunts the Germans in tight portrait. At the “one” of Stern magazine, he occupies, Wednesday, August 3, all the kiosks of the country. The weekly has won a five -hour interview with the one who works as a lobbyist for Russian energy groups and who claims personal proximity to the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Last week, to a German journalist crossed by chance in a hotel in the capital of Russia, he said he simply took his holidays in the shade of the Kremlin turrets: “Moscow is a pretty city.”
Gregor Peter Schmitz, the editor -in -chief of Stern, who carried out the interview, in Hanover, is not surprised by the absence of Mea Culpa on the part of Mr. Schröder: “He had this almost tone jovial that we have always known to him. He immediately announced that he had had a meeting with Putin. Without consultation with the German federal government. “The septuagenarian, targeted by a procedure for exclusion from the social democratic party, Deprived of his advantages of former chancellor since May, thinks he has a role to play as an intermediary with Russia.
“Resoluble problems”
Faced with the critical questions of journalists, he unfolds his analysis of the geopolitical situation. “The good news: the Kremlin wants a negotiated solution,” he says. Vladimir Putin would be ready to negotiate, and Mr. Schröder is the proof of the agreement on cereals won at the end of July, premise to a “armistice”. “Besides, if you look at the problems that are really central, they are completely resoluble,” he says.