Meaning of Schröderization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The co-opting of business or political figures by a foreign regime, specifically Russia.
   British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of Schröderization.
   UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable

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Examples

“Nevertheless, official Berlin's clearly heightened interest in the subject of human rights compels us to speak of the start of the "de-Schröderization" of German policy toward Moscow.”

“Clearly, as has been said, we should diversify sources of energy. […] As Edward Lucas says in his book The New Cold War, we should avoid the Finlandisation, or what he rather unkindly called the "Schröderisation", of western Europe.”

“Little awareness is shown of the aggressive uses of Russian economic power and its intelligence presence, not only in the former Soviet Union but, with increasing confidence and guile, in the new EU member states of Central and Southeastern Europe. It is Russia's novel modes of engagement, not "Cold War stereotypes," that explain why shreyderizatsia (Schröderization) has become part of the region's vocabulary.”

“Despite the disagreement of Poland and Lithuania, the renewal of EU–Russia negotiations in November 2008 in relation to the development of a new general agreement is evidence of a gradual formation of separate political relations or possibly even a hint of ‘Schröderisation’ […] in the European Union. It should be noted that ‘Schröderisation’ is not about the construction of an EU–Russia union so much as the general softening of Washington’s attitude towards the Kremlin and development of Russia’s own domestic policy towards the West of deeper involvement with it.”

“But it is true that he [Vladimir Putin] has managed to pull off a "Schröderisation" (buying politicians, businessmen, etc.) of Europe.”

“According to the French commentator Françoise Thom, [Vladimir] Putin’s politics of re-integration of the former Soviet territory, in which the war in Ukraine is the first step, is ideologically accompanied by the rehabilitation of Sovietism, or even Stalinism, and economically by a ‘Schröderization’ of European elites by making Europe dependent on its gas and oil.”

“In the end, [Angela] Merkel defeated [Gerhard] Schröder, leading many to believe that the ‘Schröderization’ of Germany’s Russia policy had come to an end. But it took more than promises to curb the appetite of German business interests in Russia, as Merkel would soon find out.”

“Like Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair before him, François Hollande saw himself as driving a "third way" for socialism, between social democracy and liberalism[…]. In the same spirit, several German media outlets, analysing the principles of the competitiveness pact, interpreted it as symbolic of the French president's "Schröderisation".”

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