Jörg
Meuthen
Brexit
EU
Parliament, October 9, 2019,
P9 CRE-PROV(2019) 10-9 (1-071-0000)
[Jörg Meuthen is a national
chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland
and he leads the AfD’s delegation
in the European Parliament where the AfD
belongs to the Identity and Democracy party.]
Frau President. Herr Commission President Jüncker. Herr Barnier.
Allow me to enlighten another aspect. I am horrified over what has
been reported of the telephone call between Frau Merkel and British Prime
Minister Johnson. I begin with the best of it: Merkel has indeed said that
Germany could without a problem leave the EU. That was always an option,
although not a good one. Yet in the view of the chancellor there were to be
sure other rules for the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom, she said, could
leave when it left Northern Ireland in the customs union with the EU – forever.
Frau Merkel evidently wishes, in case of a Brexit, to partition
Great Britain. What arrogance of power! Thus a United Kingdom shall become a
separated Kingdom. I find that inconceivable coming from Frau Merkel who
herself was raised in a divided country. How could she have presumed? Or as the
British say: “How dare you!” She must know what that means. Basically, Frau
Merkel has said that a deal was impossible without violating Great Britain’s
sovereignty. When she concerns herself with the future border between Ireland
and Northern Ireland she necessarily casts a glance at the border between
Norway and Sweden. That is always a possibility. Under these provisions, further
negotiations as well as a further extension conforming with Article 50 can be
cheerfully dispensed with.
For once finally be honest here in this house and admit that the
EU institutions are relentlessly doing everything to prevent and render
impossible an orderly exit by the United Kingdom. And you always do the same,
politically smart thing – namely, shove the blame [den Schwarzen Peter zuzuschieben] onto the United Kingdom. Great
Britain shall now draw the dividing line, and will not agree to the EU
conditions for an orderly Brexit. The Earth will continue to turn, the economic
damage will be less than forecast. In political terms, it will be for the
British a liberation.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
