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EUobserver.com: Kyiv wants EU sanctions on former German chancellor

Published March 19, 2018. Updated March 19 at 12:29 pm

(FILES) This file photo taken on June 25, 2017 shows former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder giving speech during an SPD party congress in Dortmund, western Germany. The Russian government has nominated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a close friend of President Vladimir Putin, to join the board of Rosneft, the energy giant under Western sanctions. Schroeder was among seven nominees in a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev published on the Russian government's website on August 11, 2017. The names will go to a shareholders' vote in late September in a move to increase Rosneft's board from nine to 11.

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Ukraine is pressing for the EU to impose sanctions against former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, over his pro-Russian lobbying activities.

In an interview published March 19 in the Bild newspaper, Ukraine’s foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin described Schroeder as “the most important lobbyist of Putin’s projects worldwide. That is why the European Union should analyze its possible actions.”