A conservative lawmaker in Berlin called for action against German conductor Justus Frantz, who traveled to Moscow this week to receive the Order of Friendship from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Christian Democratic Union member of parliament Roland Theis told POLITICO’s Berlin Playbook Thursday that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier should revoke Frantz’s Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
“Anyone who aligns themselves with a dictator whose, until now, hybrid military aggressions are directed against our country, can no longer be a bearer of the Federal Order of Merit,” Theis told POLITICO.
