01/01/2006
Al-Akhbar Newspaper 2006/JANUARY /10
A statesman’s post-office work rarely raises a debate – the exception is former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s new post as president of the Russian Gaz Brum’s General Assembly. The German mentality is reserved about understanding the nature of the former Chancellor acceptance of the new post. ( Available in Arabic )
According to the applicable system in European giant joint-stock companies, head of the general assembly is a main figure that is as weighty as a board chairman, so that the latter cannot take strategic decisions unilaterally to the detriment of the shareholders’ interests, represented in the head of the general assembly. The German official and public reservation about the acceptance of this position may be ascribed to their feeling that this may have to do with a pivotal political personality that is considered by many as an artificial personality of the State’s sovereignty. They may also have reservations about a State’s top management official turning into an employee, who gets a salary and bonuses from profits, no matter how high this income may be.