Joana Cotar, July 27, 2020, Corona App

Joana Cotar

Corona App

AfD Kompakt, July 27, 2020
 

[Joana Cotar is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the western German state of Hessen. A communications manager, she is the AfD’s spokesman for digital policy in the Bundestag.]

From the beginning, I have pointed out that the app’s epidemiological uses were not demonstrable. The experiences in other countries show that the result falls far below expectations, which is what I had predicted for Germany and it has occurred exactly so. Heretofore, only 660 TeleTANs were given out by us, approximately 550 people – according to estimates – having reported themselves as infected. Compared to the present infection numbers in Germany, it becomes clear: The app has no effect.

Now it occurs that the app – despite the enormous cost of 680 million euros – for weeks has not functioned correctly for many Android users. And people learn nothing of this from the government but from the Bild newspaper. Transparency appears otherwise. There is nothing more to say to the citizens. The Federal government should now put an end to this mischief, spare the taxpayers further expense and disconnect the app.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Beatrix von Storch, July 23, 2020, EU Corona Package

Beatrix von Storch

EU Corona Package

AfD Kompakt, July 23, 2020

[Beatrix von Storch is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin. She is a lawyer. Article 311 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states, in part, “Without prejudice to other revenue, the budget shall be financed wholly from own resources…[the EU Council] may establish new categories of own resources or abolish an existing category. That decision shall not enter into force until it is approved by the Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.”]

The AfD delegation welcomes the fact that the FDP takes up our demand for a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag, since a debt union, as desired by Merkel and Macron, violates current law (Art. 311 AEUV Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union). This violation of the law alters the treaty bases of the EU on a central point. A change in the fundamentals of the EU must be agreed to by a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag (Art. 23, Abs. 1, 1 S. 3 GG i.V.m. Art. 79 GG). We already presented this demand in the last week of the Bundestag’s sitting in a conversation of the delegation chairmen with the EU committee on July 2, and initially two days earlier also emphasized it on Twitter.

[Translated by Todd Martin]