Jörg
Meuthen
EU
Council Program
European
Parliament, Brussels, July 8, 2020, P9 CRE-PROV (2020)07-08 (1-027-0000)
[Jörg Meuthen is a national chairman of the Alternative
für Deutschland and leads the AfD delegation in the European Parliament where
the AfD belongs to the Identity and Democracy party.]
Frau
Chancellor. Frau Commission President. Herr Parliament President.
Many
people in the European Union anticipate and expect political prudence and
foresight from this German presidency of the Council. Never since the formation
of the EU was that more necessary than today. Yet what you deliver here has
nothing to do with prudence and foresight but very much with ignorance, infamy
and ideology. You are unfortunately not the noble advocates of the European
idea, as you are so gladly celebrated. You are in fact its gravediggers.
European
ideals are based on a cultural identity, enlightened reason and the freedom of
the individual. Yet you trample underfoot all of that. You want to replace the
cultural identity of Europe, its Christian-Jewish roots, its beauty and
variety, with an ultimately uncultured and shapeless Multikulti. Where that leads to we have witnessed in the grave
excesses in Dijon and Stuttgart. Who does not wish to admit that is ignorant
and overlooks the true interests of the people, who besides feel themselves to be
first French, Italian, Polish, Hungarian or German and only then European.
The
reason that arose from the Enlightenment demanded a politics based on
recognition of the sciences and respect for the law. Your chaotic and mindless
monetary and financial policy ignores all that and, with the Green Deal’s 500
billion and 750 billion for the Recovery Fund, you take final leave of
decision-making based on reason. That is infamous.
It
is however the ever further reduction of people’s freedom which weighs most
heavily. A Green Deal, the formation of a debt community, the insane expenditure
excesses driven by you at the pump – that is the exact opposite of a life of
freedom. Frau Merkel one day donates – to the joy of the French President and
additional Mediterranean friends – a frivolous 500 billion. Frau von der Leyen
spontaneously piles on top of that a mythical 250 billion. It is not your
money, but it is the money of the taxpayers who have not been asked and who
will have to pay this bill. It is state paternalism in its most intensive form,
all of which is basically driven by a socialist ideology. It is frankly the
rape of freedom.
And
then you say, Frau Merkel, that it may be necessary that Germany not think of
itself but be ready for an extraordinary act of solidarity. Are you actually
aware that the average assets of the Germans is very much lower than those of
the French, Spanish and Italians? Are you aware that in Germany the rate of
home ownership in terms of assessment cannot keep pace with those countries and
that Germany has a significantly higher age for entry into pensioned retirement
than all the Mediterranean countries? What you actually have is an absurd understanding
of solidarity, Frau Chancellor.
You,
Frau Merkel, and you, Frau von der Leyen, in common with ECB President Lagarde,
have for long formed a triumvirate of economic horrors. Instead of using the
German presidency of the Council to turn away from this fatal course, you yet
again increase the speed of your political wild ride. You not only do a disservice
to Europe as a whole – as to the EU – with your course you betray the European
idea and commit a criminal act against the future of coming generations.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
