European Election Program, 9th European Parliament 2019, Preamble

European Election Program
Program of the Alternative für Deutschland for the Election 
     of the 9th European Parliament 2019

Preamble

Preamble

Conscious of historic responsibility for Germany’s future, the Alternative für Deutschland has issued the following program for the 9th European Parliament election in May 2019.

The AfD stands firmly for the idea of a Europe of nations, a European community of sovereign states which for the welfare of their citizens work together in all those matters that can be better settled in common. That includes especially an internal market, unhindered as possible, and with fair competition.

We hold the quasi-state of the “European Union” to be a contradiction in itself. A group of neighboring states can constructively and peacefully very well cooperate on the basis of international law. But the attempt to construct a forever-elaborated, overall state out of the present 28 or yet more states, each with its own language, culture and historical experience, must fail. Such a construction has at its disposal neither a national population nor the required minimum of cultural identity which are the prerequisites of successful states. The words of warning from the preamble to our election program for the 2014 European election hold good for the future, having been confirmed by the exit of Great Britain and the erstwhile and no longer presentable entry of Turkey.

“Thus without consent of the citizens is instituted a citizen-distant, artificial state originating in the breaking of treaties and laws. Together with powerful social and economic repudiations in the southern countries, the stealthy expropriation of savers and the unjust burdens of taxpayers in the economically stable countries, this leads to an increasing rejection of the EU…In several states, exit from this EU has been demanded.”

A union of European states will only have a future when it succeeds in breaking the ever accelerating cycle of de-democratization and centralization and before today’s EU destroys itself through the perversion of its fundamental ideas.

The unusual economic-historical idea of a single currency for states which are of a completely distinct economic development has failed. It concerns itself with a political wish-making which did not harmonize with economic law and with which it cannot be brought into harmony in the future. Therefore, the already much tested and further re-designed transfer union is leading to the decline of the European economy and to unbridgeable conflicts among the states.

A comparable failure of the EU has been made evident in the migration crisis. Although in the founding treaties the internal and external border regime of the EU states, as well as the asylum and immigration policy, were transferred to the EU, no provision was made for the foreseeable migration problems; in addition to which, the EU’s crisis management totally failed. The citizens have thus additionally lost trust in European institutions.

The climate and energy policy constitutes a further, basic mis-development, based on the hypothesis of man-made climate change, one which effects all areas of society. We want an end to this policy since it, without any emergency, reduces the people’s access to cheaper energy which is the prerequisite for any prosperity. Only a few have a use for the forced redistribution of billions.

It is therefore high time to re-think the EU’s future development.

The banking and social union presently being put forward by important European players, with its all-European collectivization of liabilities and support functions of unlimited quantity, completely destroys the commercial basis of the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties. It is already plainly discernible that the people of Europe are rebelling against this. Thus the great haste of the “European Institutions” to manufacture facts prior to the EU election. We warn of these additional false declarations and will do all in our present power to hinder them. To that end, we support the demand that fundamental EU issues be decided by national popular referendum.

The EU election for the 9th European Parliament will send signals which can no longer be ignored.


 [Translated by Todd Martin]

Bruno Hollnagel, March 1, 2019, Eurozone

Bruno Hollnagel

Eurozone

AfD Kompakt, March 1, 2019

[Bruno Hollnagel is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. He is an investment manager and author and is currently a member of the Bundestag finance committee. He here responds to recent proposals for a more centralized management of the European economy. Ludwig Erhard was a post-war German chancellor and finance minister.]

… It is dangerous and treacherous when liability regulations are to be softened. Evidently the Frenchwoman Christine LaGarde in her character as chief of the IWF stands by the side of Macron to enforce French interests against Germany. France vehemently demands in the name of a “general coordination” a Eurozone budget and a European fiscal union. These would however violate the Maastricht Treaty which expressly excludes a general European liability. The assertion that a monetary system with a robust super-structure would be more stable is fundamentally false. The exact opposite is correct. Not the political “super-structure” but rather a more solid “sub-structure”, consisting of the tried and true principles of Erhard’s social market economy, is what is decisive. The leveling harmonization destroys the “multi-colored variety” which, according to Erhard, was Europe’s strength, not its weakness. France should remain with its centralized economic management and not force us into this corset which in our view robs a free economy of the air it needs to breathe.

In the Europe of the future, each country should be happy according to its own fashion instead of prescribing to other countries how they are to live. In such a Europe that breathes freedom, each state should be able to fulfill its characteristics to the good of all and thus offer to all members an added value.

{Translated by Todd Martin]

Siegbert Droese, March 6, 2019, EU

Siegbert Droese

EU

AfD Kompakt, March 6, 2019

[Siegbert Droese is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Saxony. He is a hotel and restaurant entrepreneur. He here criticizes recent remarks by Manfred Weber, the CSU politician from Bavaria who is expected to become the new president of the European Commission following the European parliamentary elections scheduled for this coming May. Weber has threatened the expulsion of the Fidesz party of Hungarian prime minister Victor Orban from the EVP, the European Peoples Party, the center-right party of the European Parliament of which the CSU and Fidesz are members.]

Is this the new style of the EU? Is this Europe’s new start, proclaimed by Macron? The tone in the EU becomes ever more course; between Brussels and Warsaw, between Weber and Orban, between Salvini and Macron. So who is still surprised by Brexit?

The EU must become a world power, continually affirming a common European foreign policy and common values. And yet some of the leading officials of the EU cannot speak to one another like reasonable men! Hungary is no rogue state, no Iran or North Korea which supposedly must be disciplined. Weber’s ultimatum is an unforced error, and not least for the EVP which will obviously require every vote after the European elections to assist its lead candidates to power.

Hungary is not obliged to permit, in Hungary, American universities which confer U.S. diplomas and which on a daily basis make propaganda evidently for the overthrow of Orban. It happens that a Bavarian politician, who otherwise vehemently defends federalism in German education policy, wants to make prescriptions for other countries’ colleges and universities.

In the EU’s entire push against Hungary, there is no thought of aim or variety. In tone, Weber has played himself false and he has damaged the EU. Even before he is in office, Weber has thereby now disqualified himself from the Brussels post after which he is striving.

[Translated by Todd Martin]