###While providing abundant income for Gerhard Schröder.###
Good deeds should be rewarded.
When Schroeder became a chancellor Germany was a poor semi-socialist country with GDP per capita at around $20000.
It steadily skyrocketed under his ‘Agenda 2010’ in a few years and peaked north of $45000 early into Merkels presidency for her to take credit for it.
It is stagnating ever since under Merkel.
Average German is now more than twice wealthier and literally on par with an American economically thanks to Schroeder.
I don’t care if he made something for himself off it.
Nothing good about political corruption and treason. Schröder was on the take his entire career. He evaded prosecution because of his position, but his allies such as Siemens got fined for it. As for Merkel, she says she doesn’t like Putin, but she got along cozily enough with Medvedev when it suited her.