Jörg Meuthen
Reply to German Chancellor Angela Merkel
European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, November
13, 2018
[Jörg Meuthen
is national co-chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and the lone AfD
member in the European Parliament. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had earlier
spoken to the European Parliament and agreed to a proposal made by French
President Emmanuel Macron for a European army. The no-bailout clause referred to is Article 123 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union: “Overdraft facilities or any other type of
credit facility with the European Central Bank or with the central banks of the
Member States…in favour of Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies,
central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies
governed by public law, or public undertakings of Member States shall be
prohibited, as shall the purchase directly from them by the European Central
Bank or national central banks of debt instruments.”]
Frau Chancellor, the balance of your policy is, not
only for Germany but also for the EU, a singular disaster. In the autumn of
your time as chancellor, that becomes ever more obvious. At no time have you
recognized an authentic vision of European policy. And earlier today you delivered
a horror show of surrender of national sovereignty. A common European army
presupposes a common military command over 27 nations, the existence of which
is indiscernible.
Where leadership would have been required, you have
allowed yourself to be driven by disinterest. Where formation was required, for
you suffice administration and a simple slackness. You have always only trimmed
to the appearances. You have thereby not only achieved nothing, but you have in
your years as chancellor, wrought heavy damage on the European Union.
In regards the euro, one sees with your violation of
the no-bailout clause in the year 2010, how nations like Italy and Greece have
been driven into a dead end situation, while the German savers have been
expropriated by negative interest rates. You have tossed out the euro rule book
because you understand nothing of economics. The bad consequences of this
become discernible as business cycle growth now comes to an end.
You bear the guilt for Brexit because you left David
Cameron standing in the rain when he despaired of finding partners for a
European reform program. And today, just a few months before Brexit, you
trouble yourself not at all for the requested solution to continued free trade
with Britain or in the least for the interests of the German export economy.
With your unilateral, entirely extra-parliamentary
opening of the borders in 2015, you have tossed out the Dublin rules. To this
day, you have not understood what incalculable damage you have thereby caused.
Now it suits you to make the next historic failure.
While ever more nations correctly conclude not to sign the UN migration pact,
are you here again on the wrong side. You implement your fundamentally false
migration policy to the greatest possible harm to Germany and to the European
Union as a whole.
It is high time for the approaching European
elections. A new generation will succeed. And we free men will stamp our mark
on this house. We will make of the EU what it ought to be: not a super-state
subordinating national democracies, but a service organization for a Europe of
nations.
The EU requires this new beginning. With you, the
necessary reforms will not be made. Frau Merkel, for once do something right
and not just halfway: There is no alternative to your speedy resignation as
chancellor. Frau Chancellor, I put it to you in your own words: “You can do it!“
