European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for the Election
of the 9th
European Parliament 2019
2.1 A Europe of Nations, 2.2 Reform of the European Union
2.1 A Europe of Nations
The variety of national cultures and traditions is the foundation
for the political, economic and social strength of Europe. We reject the transformation
of the EU into a state with its own government and legislative authority as
well as the idea of a “United States of Europe”. Instead, the AfD stands for a
Europe as an economic and interests community of sovereign states. We want to
live together in friendship and as good neighbors.
The principle of national sovereignty was hollowed out by the
treaties of Schengen, Maastricht and Lisbon. The attempt to undo functioning,
democratic national states and replace them with a kind of European super-state
cannot succeed. It is an illusion that the national identities could be by and
by unloosened by a European one. There is no European population that would
conform to such a project and it is not possible to identify one such that
could be constructed in the foreseeable future. Cultures, languages and
national identities arise through centuries of enduring historical development.
Only in national states with a democratic constitution can the sovereignty and
fundamental rights of the citizen as the centerpiece of democracy be pledged
and preserved.
2.2 Reform of the European Union
The European community has evolved into an undemocratic structure
which is occupied by the political players of Europe and shaped by opaque,
uncontrolled bureaucracies. The principles, posited in the European treaties, of
subsidiarity and the prohibition of state liability for the debts of other
states are being ignored. The politics of the EU branches, especially the
European Council and the European Commission, is dominated by the special
interests bargaining of individual states and the lobby cliques. Competition is
increasingly throttled by a European regulatory mania. Democratic control of
the EU branches is utterly insufficient; not even the European Court of Justice
observes this role but persistently expands the EU competencies, burdening the sovereignty of national states.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
[Translated by Todd Martin]
