You can dig a lot of dirt on everyone in high office. The economy always would be the highest priority. I believe Schroeder was overall positive figure.
Economy is one priority, but domestic and international security are other important ones, and it’s not clear Schröder fared well in any of these categories. Schröder in fact lost to Merkel partly because of his administration’s economic underperformance, such as hitting 12 percent unemployment in 2003, so crediting his economic achievements solely based on his support for Russian oil companies is debatable. And I don’t see how we can say Merkel is a communist globalist without considering Schröder lobbying for China throughout his career, as far back as Tiananmen Square and continuing to this day. I don’t see either of them as very positive figures. If Merkel is a globalist communist motivated by ideology, Schröder is a globalist and communist enabler motivated by greed: whatever the rationalization, the results for Germany and the world are the same.