Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroder is facing flak for taking a new job as board chairman of a Russian-German consortium building a direct gas pipeline between the two countries – a project he heavily promoted as chancellor.
It emerged over the weekend, just weeks after Angela Merkel took over the chancellorship, that Mr Schroder will head the shareholder committee of a new joint pipeline company that brings together Gazprom, a Russian state-owned firm, and German giants BASF and ...
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