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]

Uwe Witt, July 22, 2020, Small Business Grants

Uwe Witt

Small Business Grants

AfD Kompakt, July 22, 2020

[Uwe Witt is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the western German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. He is human resources manager and here refers back to an AfD motion (Drucksache 19/18145) introduced in the Bundestag in March of this year for the relief of small business and the self-employed during the Corona crisis.]

Our motion contained the demand that the self-employed and the small businessmen be rescued from an economic stop with emergency grants-in-aid [nicht rückzahlbaren Soforthilfen]. The government parties and the other opposition delegations rejected our supplementary motion sight unseen and decided for the government model. Yet now the government’s emergency aid turns out to be a coffin nail for the German self-employed and small businessman. The applicants feel themselves deceived by the government due to subsequent implementation examinations and forced to an existential stop by the four month delay resulting from the Merkel government’s senseless measures for containing the Corona virus.

Thus he who maintains no business space because he works from home, leases no machinery and so forth, will have a problem proving the lack of liquidity and may need be prepared to pay back – completely or partially – up to 9,000 euros. Once again, Merkel, Scholz & Co. turn out to be the lobbyists of the large concerns while they leave it to the German small businessmen to cross the economic Jordan with open eyes.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Tino Chrupalla, July 20, 2020, Violence against Police

Tino Chrupalla

Violence against Police

AfD Kompakt, July 20, 2020

[Tino Chrupalla is a national chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and an AfD Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Saxony.]

What took place in Stuttgart a few weeks ago and now continues in Frankfurt must be seen as an intensification of rebellion against the Germans [Verschärfung des Aufbegehrens gegen die Deutschen], for whom the police stand in the streets as proxies. They thus now become a target of the anger of a dependent, migrant generation who reject integration into our society.

The responsibility for these riots is borne by those politicians and those in the media who in recent years have pandered to an uncontrolled, mass immigration and who attempt to put off an honest description of certain groups of perpetrators. In Stuttgart and Frankfurt, the “Party Scene” is not escalating; here, young men test out how much violence they can commit against the German police without being punished. That these violent perpetrators here have plenty of leeway is also due to the lack of political support. The constant racism accusation against the police unleashes against them an applied violence. There must now be an end to that. The Frankfurt police have already analyzed the problem with refreshing honesty and must now be able to perform their work. The necessary consequences are to be rapidly drawn from the occurrences so as to prevent further violent excesses.

[Translated by Todd Martin]