European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland
for Election
of
the 9th European Parliament 2019
A Europe of Nations
2.2.2 Referenda in European Affairs
As long as the sovereignty of the national
states is not reconstructed, Germany may conclude or alter no treaty referring
to EU expansion, a yielding of sovereignty or assent to liability without a
referendum. We hold it to be a self-evident right of each of the peoples of the
European Union to vote on remaining in the EU, the Monetary Union or special
supra-national projects.
The exit of Great Britain from the EU has
historic dimensions. It was brought about by the EU’s political classes and has
inflicted heavy damage on Europe. We respect Brexit as the sovereign decision
of the British citizens to leave the EU.
2.3 Lobbyism, Corruption and Self-enrichment
Due to a lack of proximity to the citizens
and a lack of transparency of EU institutions with wide-ranging regulatory
power and discretion over potent financial means, a machinery of officialdom
with more than 25,000 lobbyists has been established at the control points of
the EU. These attempt to exert influence on political decisions, oftentimes in
the gray area of corruption. The effect upon the Brussels bureaucracy occurs
with frightening ease, at times the guidelines and draft statutes being drawn
up directly by the lobbyists. The measures aimed, after countless scandals, at
regulating lobbying are only eye-wash.
Even before realization of the necessary EU
reform measures, we demand an obligatory lobby register in which appears each
contact with lobbyists and which is to be published unedited. Besides complete
transparency, we demand definite duties and corresponding penalties for all EU
functionaries and co-workers. We want to appropriately penalize bribery,
corruption and subventions fraud with automatic loss of eligibility for
election and the ability to place public officials under observation. In
addition, we require the unrestricted publication of members’ and functionaries’
outside activities as well as a three year interim period for rotation between
politics and business (“Revolving-door principle”).
