European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for Election
of the 9th European
Parliament 2019
A Europe of Nations
2.3.1 Private Provision for EU Functionaries
Upon separation, EU parliamentarians presently receive a
super-sized retirement benefit from a pension fund. As a result of the EZB’s
low interest rate policy, and similar to private and corporate retirement
systems, the return on this fund has fallen off and there are large deficits. The
AfD strictly opposes the present plan of Brussels for which the taxpayer now
shall make compensation while the citizen must himself bear the reduction of
life insurance and retirement benefits. In our EU model, the EU members and
functionaries should themselves come up with their retirement and healthcare
provisions.
2.3.2 Information and Transparency
While lobbyists and representatives of
special interests are generally and first of all informed, as a rule
information concerning EU institutions remains withheld from the citizens.
During negotiations of commercial agreements such as the TTIP, information concerning the contents was withheld even from the parliamentarians of the
national states. We demand an unrestricted right to information for all
citizens and a maximum transparency and for all EU institutions a duty to
publish all pertinent data as per the standard of the Hamburg transparency
statute. We demand of non-governmental organizations (NGO) the annual presentation
of a business report on financial sources and activities.
2.4 The Europa Parties and their Foundations
The “political parties at the European level”
introduced by the Maastricht Treaty were in 2003 reconstructed into an
expanded, gigantic instrument of state party financing. The “Europa parties”
are not parties according to German law. Their financing of up to 100 percent by
public means violates European law. Heedless of this, the established parties
have opened up hereby an additional source of public financing. Since its
introduction in 2004, the EU parliament has increased the means referred to
from 3.2 million euros to 20.8 million euros per year.
Beyond that, the parties have agreed to
foundations at the European level. So, for example, the foundation of the
European Peoples’ Party (EVP), to which the CDU/CSU belongs, receives 4.9
million euros (2016). All told, approximately 16 million euros are paid out to
the EU foundations. The AfD demands the immediate cessation of party financing
at the European level.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
[Translated by Todd Martin]
