Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder has backed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s no to the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and his fundamental rejection of the deployment of ground troops. “I think Olaf Scholz is doing what I would expect from a German chancellor at the moment,” the former leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), which is also Scholz’s party, told dpa. Schröder, who was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, also called for a Franco-German initiative to negotiate a solution to the conflict in Ukraine. When asked whether he would like to see a “peace chancellor” Scholz, 79, said…