by John Rosenthal
//start quote///Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s appointment as chairman of the supervisory board of the Gazprom-controlled North European Gas Pipeline Consortium has raised a number of eyebrows. Suggestions to the effect that the appointment reveals Schröder to be Vladimir Putin’s poodle, however, underestimate the importance of the German presence in the project and miss its strategic significance both for the German participants and Germany more generally. 49% of the consortium is, after all, controlled by the two German firms Eon and BASF....
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