Following allegations by Ukrainian President Selensky that she prevented Ukraine from joining NATO, the former German Chancellor spoke out. Criticism of her and the current German government also comes from Poland: “Germany is the biggest brake”.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was criticized after the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused her of preventing Ukraine from joining NATO. On Monday, Merkel had a spokesperson tell the German press agency: “Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel stands by her decisions regarding the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest.” Merkel supports international efforts to end the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. “In view of the atrocities that are becoming visible in Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine, all efforts by the federal government and the international community to support Ukraine and ending Russia’s barbarism and war against Ukraine have the ex-chancellor’s full support,” said the ex-chancellor’s spokeswoman.
In an interview with US broadcaster CBS, Zelensky criticized both Angela Merkel and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. They should come to Bucha “to see where 14 years of surrender to Russia are leading”. Hundreds of bodies were found in Butscha over the weekend.
Criticism of Merkel, but also of the current German government, also comes from Poland. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki accused the former German chancellor of having contributed to the strengthening of Russia. “Mrs Chancellor, you have been silent since the beginning of the war. Germany’s policy over the last ten or fifteen years has made Russia today have a force based on a monopoly on the sale of raw materials,” Morawiecki said on Monday. -fair. press conference in Warsaw.
“Germany the biggest brake”
Even now, the German federal government is putting the brakes on within the EU when it comes to new sanctions against Moscow, Morawiecki said. This can be seen in the minutes of EU meetings. “Anyone reading the transcripts will know that Germany is the biggest brake when it comes to more decisive sanctions.” Morawiecki therefore appealed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to reconsider his stance on Russia.
“It is not the voices of the German companies, the German billionaires, who are now probably preventing you from further measures, that should be heard loudly in Berlin today,” said the head of the national conservative government. “It is the voice of these innocent women and children, the voice of the murdered, that must be heard by all Germans and all German politicians.”
(APA/AFP/dpa)