Angela Merkel aide 'attended Vladimir Putin party'
Angela Merkel "furious" after reports that her foreign policy expert attended Gerhard Schroeder's birthday party with Vladimir Putin
Gerhard
Schroeder, the former German chancellor, celebrated his 70th birthday
with President Vladimir Putin at St Petersburg's Jussapov Palace on
Monday night Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Chancellor
Angela Merkel is said to be furious following reports that her own
party's foreign policy expert attended a much criticised party in St
Petersburg with Vladimir Putin.
Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor, celebrated his 70th birthday with President Vladimir Putinat St Petersburg's Jussapov Palace on Monday night.
German
media reports said Philipp Missfelder, the chief foreign policy expert
for Mrs Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Party was also a
guest at the controversial party held by a subsidiary of the Russian
energy giant, Gazprom.
Mr Schroeder,
who is on the board of Gazprom and a personal friend of Mr Putin was
criticised in Germany on Tuesday for openly rubbing shoulders with the
Russian president while German diplomatic observers were being held
hostage by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
Mrs
Merkel was on Thursday reported to have asked Mr Putin for help in
getting the hostages freed during a telephone conversation between the
two leaders.
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