23: The Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Key That the Germans Apply in Their Foreign Policy
Under Schreide, and then under the six, under his successor Angela Merkel, the key that the Germans tend to apply in their foreign policy towards Russia is economics. And so the economics becomes a kind of magic where the notion is: okay, if we cooperate economically with Russia, for example, if we buy Russia natural gas, that will have a positive effect on Russia because that's the theory,. right? So Gerhard Schreide negotiates a gas pipeline with the Russians. A few weeks after he leaves office in 2005, he then joins the board of the gas company in question and is employed in one way or another by the Russian hydrocarbon industry as an executive at some point
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