European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland
for Election
of
the 9th European Parliament 2019
3.3 Development Policy
3.3 Development Policy
The AfD’s goal is to return EU development
policy again to the national level of the member states, with a coordinating
role for the EU so as to avoid redundancy. The donation of development assistance
concerns the principle of subsidiarity and the maintenance of the donor
countries’ self-interest.
Development policy must be help for
self-help. A sustained effort against poverty must be the result of steady
economic development and the construction of educational systems and
functioning state institutions. Private business initiative, a competitive
work place and maintenance security are to be required. The recipient countries
should be in a position to promote under their own power the formation of their
economy and society.
Furthermore, arms exports to crisis regions,
especially to despotic regimes, are to be immediately ended.
States in which corruption, nepotism and
mismanagement predominate are to be excluded from development
assistance. Budgetary assistance promotes waste of resources and is to be
stopped. Nuclear powers such as China, India and Pakistan which are however
also states which guarantee development assistance should not receive, as it always
turns out, development assistance.
Free trade is the most practical and
un-bureaucratic form of development assistance. The EU must therefore open its
market to the goods and services of developing countries and end the export of
subsidized products to developing countries. EU evaluation and donation
procedures as well as standards and norms should not become trade secrets.
Development assistance must submit to a strict
usage control and to a regular, independent evaluation of results. Humanitarian
aid generally has no long-term development effect and is thus is not in the
strict sense development assistance. Humanitarian aid should be the mission of
the churches and welfare organizations. Financial aid to organizations which
commit, support or favor terrorist action is to be immediately stopped.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
