Schroeder joins media group

Gerhard Schroeder, German chancellor for the past seven years until this week, is to join Switzerland’s leading newspaper group, Ringier, as a political consultant and lobbyist, working at its offices in Zurich one or two days a week. The ex-chancellor, who resigned his seat in the German Bundestag after handing over to successor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, would take up the post on January 1, the company said Thursday. Two thirds of Ringier’s business is in central and eastern Europe, where it has acquired many major publications. The media group, which publishes both newspapers and magazines, has a workforce of 6,081. One of Ringier’s main Swiss newspapers is the mass-circulation, left-of-centre Blick. It publishes a Swiss business magazine, Cash, and a German political magazine, Cicero, as well as more than 40 titles in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Proprietor Michael Ringier said on Germany’s N24 news television channel that Schroeder would ‘open doors’ for the group. Schroeder’s title will be ‘personal adviser to Michael Ringier on international politics issues’. (DPA, Expatica Germany)

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