Armin-Paulus Hampel, August 11, 2021, Afghanistan

AfD Kompakt, August 11, 2021.

Comes what must come. To recognize that, no secret service reports need be studied. The Taliban conquer one city after another and they will sooner or later capture Kabul. If Herr Röttgen (CDU) really thinks that this may still be prevented militarily, then he is living in another world and with his remarks he has placed himself on the off-sides of foreign policy. It will be the task of the great neighbors Russia, China and India to work out a solution of the conflict in Afghanistan, yet certainly not of the the West or indeed of Germany.

More important than observing the sad developments there is to direct a look at the foreseeable consequences for Germany and Europe and to act prudently. There will be new streams of refugees, and experts thereby figure that the number of Afghan migrants in Turkey could grow to a million by the end of the year. Of these, the majority might attempt to come to Europe and to Germany. It is thus right that the six EU countries Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Greece, in a letter to the EU, urge further deportations to Afghanistan. The AfD delegation in the German Bundestag also demands of the Federal government to remain hard against domestic resistance and to clearly reject the criticism of Luxembourg Foreign Minister Asselborn of this conduct. Continued deportations of those Afghans who do not belong here are the correct signal so as to prevent a new 2015.

Yet in parallel we expect of our Foreign Ministry that the previous contacts with the Taliban in Qatar now in fact prove to be reliable and that guarantees for the migrants deported from Germany will be demanded. They should be able to return to their homeland, unharmed and secure from persecution. German diplomacy has corresponding incentives for the future powers in Kabul; namely, the continued and future financial support of Afghanistan promised by the Federal government.

 

[trans: tem]

 

Wolfgang Wiehle, August 10, 2021, Locomotive Drivers’ Strike

AfD Kompakt, August 10, 2021.

The demands of the Union of German Locomotive Drivers [GDL] have a realistic core. The adjustment to the inflation rate would threaten the railroad men with a real loss of income should the GDL accept the compensation contract, running until 2023 and negotiated by the DB [Deutsche Bahn, German Railways] company union, the EVG [Railway and Transport Union], which foresees for 2022 an income increase of just 1.5 percent. If the GDL thus argues for its members’ purchasing power, that cannot be rejected out of hand.

It is however indirectly about the efforts of the DB management and the EVG company union to destroy a smaller industrial union [Spartengewerkschaft]. The means of assistance for that is the single compensation law [Tarifeinhietsgesetz], enforced by the Labor Ministry which is lead by the SPD. The personal associations of the SPD and the EVG are in that regard no secret. The single compensation law apparently will be abused by the DB so to end a competition between unions and to dry up an effective union, one before all independent of employers. If the GDL thus sees itself forced to struggle for its justification of existence with hard compensation demands, that is understandable. The impending labor dispute is therefore also connected with the single compensation law and is thus a direct consequence of the SPD’s failed labor market policy.

It is not otherwise to understand that the DB has agreed with the EVG to a special right of cancellation in its already concluded compensation contract in case the GDL gets a better result. The DB management has thereby brought the entire undertaking to a dangerous imbalance: The GDL will be all but driven to a labor dispute so as to at all be able to further substantiate a claim to represent. Should the GDL fail,  the EVG would be the beneficiaries of the lost labor dispute. Should the GDL be able to enforce a portion of its demands, the EVG might obtain an identical compensation contract – the GDL would have then hauled the proverbial potatoes out of the fire even for the EVG.

With all understanding for the position of the GDL, the AfD Bundestag delegation once more appeals to its overriding responsibility, to make possible for vacationers a train trip in die Heimat. Labor dispute measures should therefore be initiated only after the end of the summer holidays; that is, after September 13^th. The time till then should be used especially by the DB to submit an acceptable offer to the GDL and defuse the fight over labor union existence.

 

[trans: tem]

 

Alice Weidel, August 11, 2021, Vaccination and Social Class

AfD Kompakt, August 11, 2021.

After she previously sent forward her Chancellery Minister, Merkel yesterday let the cat out of the bag. The lockdown for non-vaccinated, healthy citizens is in planning. After the Bundestag election shall come the two class society, contrary to constitution and hostile to freedom.

Merkel and Söder are splitting society into vaccinated and non-vaccinated and thereby no longer take Laschet into consideration. They damage their own candidate for Chancellor, and factor in that liberal Union voters will give their votes to the AfD.

We are namely the only party which honestly and resolutely defends the freedom of the citizens.

 

[trans: tem]