AfD Kompakt, February 15, 2022.
The European Union appears to be concerned when it is a
matter of implementing human rights in any corner of the planet. This is made
known when the “Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World” is read year
by year. One thing thereby becomes clear: The more the EU concerns itself over
the human rights of elsewhere, the more forcefully will these be perverted in
its member states. The Corona pandemic has made this clear: Basic rights become
privileges have led to the formation of a two-class society. Data protection,
the relevance of which EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell
emphasized in last year’s report, is subsumed to the restrictive Corona
preventive measures, which has led to stronger digital controls, ever further
sharpened.
It is wrong to elevate human rights to a standard for one’s
own foreign policy. Foreign policy should primarily be led by interests and not
values. Yet on the other hand when managed by the EU, it should guarantee that
basic rights are implemented in its member states, instead of morally
instructing the rest of the world with woke ideologies.
[trans: tem]
