Alice
Weidel
EU
Reconstruction Funds
AfD
Kompakt, April 20, 2020
[Alice Weidel is a chairman of the
Alternative für Deutschland delegation in the German Bundestag as well as AfD
chairman in the western German state of Baden-Württemberg.]
EU
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the southern EU states are definitely
cobbling up the next Trojan horse; they wish thereby to palm off on us the
illegal mutualization of state debts by means of common loans. Eurobonds remain
eurobonds, and are illegal and lack solidarity, even when the EU Commission
itself wishes to sell these debt instruments for which the member states shall
be liable in the scope of the EU budget.
With
her fecklessness and lack of direction, Frau von der Leyen is about to blow up
the EU. Once the original sin of trillions is committed, the floodgates are
opened to further, insatiable demands. Then the formal liability limitation
quickly becomes a scrap of paper.
The
Corona crisis concerns all European states. That is no excuse for an EU-wide
financial power grab by which the EU Commission drives forward the ultimate
dis-empowerment of the national states. For its own state budget and its own
state finances is each of the member states itself responsible: That is the
legal and treaty basis for the EU and for the euro. He who exploits the crisis
to further hollow out this principal in the end destroys both.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
