European Election Program, 9th European Parliament 2019, Preamble

European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for the Election 
     of the 9th European Parliament 2019

Preamble

Preamble

Conscious of historic responsibility for Germany’s future, the Alternative für Deutschland has issued the following program for the 9th European Parliament election in May 2019.

The AfD stands firmly for the idea of a Europe of nations, a European community of sovereign states which for the welfare of their citizens work together in all those matters that can be better settled in common. That includes especially an internal market, unhindered as possible, and with fair competition.

We hold the quasi-state of the “European Union” to be a contradiction in itself. A group of neighboring states can constructively and peacefully very well cooperate on the basis of international law. But the attempt to construct a forever-elaborated, overall state out of the present 28 or yet more states, each with its own language, culture and historical experience, must fail. Such a construction has at its disposal neither a national population nor the required minimum of cultural identity which are the prerequisites of successful states. The words of warning from the preamble to our election program for the 2014 European election hold good for the future, having been confirmed by the exit of Great Britain and the erstwhile and no longer presentable entry of Turkey.

“Thus without consent of the citizens is instituted a citizen-distant, artificial state originating in the breaking of treaties and laws. Together with powerful social and economic repudiations in the southern countries, the stealthy expropriation of savers and the unjust burdens of taxpayers in the economically stable countries, this leads to an increasing rejection of the EU…In several states, exit from this EU has been demanded.”

A union of European states will only have a future when it succeeds in breaking the ever accelerating cycle of de-democratization and centralization and before today’s EU destroys itself through the perversion of its fundamental ideas.

The unusual economic-historical idea of a single currency for states which are of a completely distinct economic development has failed. It concerns itself with a political wish-making which did not harmonize with economic law and with which it cannot be brought into harmony in the future. Therefore, the already much tested and further re-designed transfer union is leading to the decline of the European economy and to unbridgeable conflicts among the states.

A comparable failure of the EU has been made evident in the migration crisis. Although in the founding treaties the internal and external border regime of the EU states, as well as the asylum and immigration policy, were transferred to the EU, no provision was made for the foreseeable migration problems; in addition to which, the EU’s crisis management totally failed. The citizens have thus additionally lost trust in European institutions.

The climate and energy policy constitutes a further, basic mis-development, based on the hypothesis of man-made climate change, one which effects all areas of society. We want an end to this policy since it, without any emergency, reduces the people’s access to cheaper energy which is the prerequisite for any prosperity. Only a few have a use for the forced redistribution of billions.

It is therefore high time to re-think the EU’s future development.

The banking and social union presently being put forward by important European players, with its all-European collectivization of liabilities and support functions of unlimited quantity, completely destroys the commercial basis of the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties. It is already plainly discernible that the people of Europe are rebelling against this. Thus the great haste of the “European Institutions” to manufacture facts prior to the EU election. We warn of these additional false declarations and will do all in our present power to hinder them. To that end, we support the demand that fundamental EU issues be decided by national popular referendum.

The EU election for the 9th European Parliament will send signals which can no longer be ignored.


 [Translated by Todd Martin]