Merkel Party Tells Ukraine Critics to Complain to Putin
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An open letter by former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and 68 others urging Germany to recognize Russia’s “legitimate” security needs is misguided, the parliamentary leader of the governing Christian Democrats said.
The letter, framed as a plea to German policy makers to help prevent war in Europe, “should have been sent to Moscow,” Volker Kauder, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, said today.