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]
