In particular, in a conversation with a correspondent of RT, Barley spoke about the situation of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, her attitude to the policies of French President Emmanuel Macron, and also commented on the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project, calling it a private enterprise.
According to Bild, many in political circles do not understand why Barley "responded to the Kremlin's propaganda RT."
“It was naive and fatal: it lost its political compass,” one of the softest comments is given.
The publication also posted screenshots of the active discussion of the situation on Twitter, and RT editors also take part in it.
In January, it became known that the German Union of Journalists (DJV) asked the German supervisory authorities not to issue a broadcast license to RT Deutsch. Currently RT Deutsch is available in Germany only on the Internet. The site has a news feed, video.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the situation.
The Union of Journalists of Russia stated that the call of the German Union of Journalists not to issue a license to broadcast RT Deutsch is a flagrant violation of all basic principles of the profession.