The capital market critics, Sigmar Gabriel, as the successor to the capital market representative of the Friedrich Merz? What had appeared to many observers of the political operation, so far as an absurd scenario, it could be at the top of the Atlantic bridge, soon to be a reality. The Board of Directors of the network for close German-American relations proposed by the former SPD leader and Minister of foreign Affairs as a successor to its Chairman, Friedrich Merz. Merz is after his defeat in the battle for the CDU in the top post as the Supervisory Board of the German subsidiary of the US-American Fund Blackrock active. From the Atlantic bridge has now been confirmed by a report of the “Handelsblatt”, according to which the vote for Gabriel unanimously failed. At the end of June, the approximately 500 members of the TRANS-Atlantic – Association to decide.

The recommendation comes as a surprise, as Gabriel had been, as foreign Minister, especially through initiatives for a better relationship with Russia for Controversy – and not, for example, through efforts to create a close relationship with the United States. Contrary to the line of the Federal government, he recommended the abolition of sanctions against Moscow is not only the case of complete fulfillment of the Minsk agreement, but at lower services of Russia in the Ukraine conflict.

The CDU suspected him of complicity with President Vladimir Putin, after meeting with Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the summer of 2017 for dinner in St. Petersburg. In the election in 2017, Gabriel condemned the Two-percent target of the Nato for military spending as the dictates of the unpopular US President Donald Trump, although his predecessor, Barack Obama, to represent it, and the then foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) had it had co-decided.

Gabriel has not yet decided

at the meeting of the Executive Board of the Atlantik-Brücke, the reservations were, according to the daily mirror. The outgoing Chairman of Merz, but I have advertised for a successor, let him hear not the Union, it said. In addition, the CDU had not only brought the EU-Commissioner Günther Oettinger to the conversation, but had proven experience in the USA, and in Brussels expected to be longer bound will remain.

Gabriel also said that he is a member of the Association, and with this, a number of events had been contested. In addition, the Argument was led into the field, it supplies further the influence of the Atlantic bridge, if you will led by a politician who, unlike in the past, not the CDU. Merz had more than ten years in office as Chairman.

The Ex-Minister confirmed the offer, has not decided yet: “I feel the request is very honored, but please understand that there will be first discussions,” he said. At the end of the General meeting of the Atlantic bridge decisions anyway. Gabriel is as the author of the Holtzbrinck publishing group, which also owns the daily mirror.

Also the ratio of SPD to your Ex-boss could change the choice of Gabriel. A return to a leadership position in the party would be excluded. Also, in the absence of the TRANS-Atlantic post of CEO, Gabriel, is at best a Comeback Chance, when the new welfare state-concept, initiated recovery, the survey covers values and the doom and gloom in the party wide make, – was stated in the SPD.

As the successor to the Merz-Deputy Edelgard Bulmahn, and Burkhard Schwenker, the management Board proposes to the CDU foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen and the Economist Michael Hüther, President of the Institute of the German economy.

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