Angela Merkel and Gerhard Schröder. Photo: DPAGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she doesn't intend to seek a business post after life in politics and criticised her predecessor Gerhard Schröder for joining the board of Russian oil giant Rosneft. Asked whether she would later seek a corporate post, like Schröder, she told the interviewer: "I do not intend to take a post in the business world after serving as chancellor." "I don't think what Schröder is doing is okay," she added, joining a chorus of public criticism of the centre-left Social Democrat who ruled from 1998 until Merkel defeated him in 2005. Merkel's main rival, Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), has said he has voiced his concern to Schröder, but also called it "a private matter" for the former chancellor.

Source: The Local August 21, 2017 12:11 UTC