Your and my reasons aren't un-linked -- during his tenure (both as Chancellor and before that as Niedersachsen PM), Schröder has been a promoter of gas, and was rather cozy with German energy giants (also) in the gas business. (Plus he was rather opportunist and business-lobby-ist in foreign policy, including his courting of Putin -- which may have had a good overall effect in Germany-Russia and EU-Russia relations, but not because of his diplomatic genius...)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}