European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for Election
of the 9th European
Parliament 2019
A Europe of Nations
2.2.1 Dexit – Exit as Last Resort
Should our fundamental reform measures of the EU’s existing system
not be realized in a suitable period of time, we maintain that a German exit,
or an orderly undoing of the European Union and the founding of a new European
economic and interests community, will be necessary. The decision concerning Dexit
will be obtained from the citizens, as is self-evident according to our model of direct democracy.
EU – Centralism and Bureaucracy
The political players of Europe have built up the European Union
into a monstrous apparatus of authorities and administration. Twelve EU
institutions with 44,000 EU officials and 11,000 employees, personnel costs of
over eight billion euros, 24 EU agencies with a number (not made public) of
co-workers and service providers such as interpreters and experts. The members,
commissioners, officials and special EU employees receive uncommonly high
compensation and privileges, from paradisaical pension entitlements to tax-free
allowances. For example, there are presently some 4,000 EU officials earning
more than the German Chancellor (290,000 € gross per year).
By reforming the EU, we wish to shrink the inflated authorities
apparatus and stop the disproportionate care and feeding of EU bureaucrats. The
filling of the offices and functions of EU institutions should be the result of
aptitude and ability, not party membership.
The renunciation of the unanimity principle and the introduction
of a majority principle is not coherent with our concept of the European Union.
The majority principle annuls the sovereignty of the states.
Abolish EU Parliament
We want to abolish the un-democratic EU parliament with its
presently privileged 751 members.We see the law-giving competence as belonging exclusively to the
national states, although we favor an intensification of inter-state
cooperation of member countries and the conclusion of multilateral state
treaties. Not centralism and leading around by the nose, but a cooperation of
partners guarantees sustained prosperity and peace.
A New European Supreme Court as Supra-national Court of
Arbitration
By the re-ordering of the European Union we want to create, in
place of previous EU organs, an organizational structure which corresponds to
the organization of other interstate federations. The specifics of the
organizational structure are to be regulated in multilateral treaties.
We want an end to the incursion of the European Court of Justice [EuGH]
into the sovereignty of the national states. With the abolition of the EU’s
law-making competence, the primacy of the German basic law and national
statutes is to be reconstructed. A new EuGH should provide for the duties of a
supra-national court of arbitration. The judges of the new EuGH should be elected
from the leading magistrates of the national states.
