Things have gotten lonely
around
Gerhard Schröder .
The former chancellor's staff have resigned.
Many of his previous business partners end the business relationship.
The SPD is openly discussing the party expulsion.
Because Schröder does not want to end his business relations with Russia, he wants to continue working for the state-owned companies Gazprom and Rosneft, which are helping to finance the war in Ukraine.
Why?
And what are the chances of a party exclusion procedure?
Timo Steppat
Editor in Politics.
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The SPD politician
Axel Schäfer,
who has been Schröder's office neighbor in Berlin for years and knows him well, talks about this, as does the Bremen SPD politician
Martin Günthner.
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag,
Michael Roth
(SPD), is also at a loss about Schröder and expects the party to be expelled.
He speaks about the turning point of the traffic light coalition in foreign and security policy, resistance from the SPD left and diplomatic solutions to the Ukraine war.
FAZ correspondent Konrad Schuller
reports from western Ukraine, from the city of Lemberg.
Even if the war there is not yet accepted, all families feel the consequences of the war, there are dramatic scenes.
There are long queues in front of the closing booths and he tells how volunteers act against Russian saboteurs.
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