Sylvia Limmer, October 6, 2021, Energy Policy

AfD Kompakt, October 6, 2021.

It is inadvertently funny when the EU happens to concern itself over rising energy prices, a lack of energy efficiency and an energy poverty when its own energy policy, with the Green Deal and the Fit-for-55 program, nevertheless manifestly leads to precisely these problems.

The price of electricity in Germany since the EEG [Renewable Energy Law] has more than doubled and the taxes more than tripled: Over half the price of electricity consists of taxes, duties and assessments so that Germany has the highest electricity prices throughout Europe. Yet by means of the eco-dirigiste pressure which the EU also exercises in other countries, in these too electricity becomes ever more expensive.

This increasingly burdens consumers and businesses. The latter will pass on the higher electricity prices to the customers so that not only the electricity but also the products become more expensive. There threatens a loss of workplaces as a result of emigration of businesses with a high energy consumption which are scarcely still able to afford the horrendous energy costs.

In place of European solutions for the elimination of these problems, those of the market economy are to be sought: Stop with the subvention of forms of energy which are not market viable – the EU Climate Law needs to be unwound. Instead of this, we demand secure, economic and environmentally friendly electricity which is not at the cost of economic competitiveness and prosperity.

This will only succeed with a stable legal framework as a basis for a teamwork of a prospering economy and a smart innovations policy so as to be able to adapt to climate changes by means of technological development. The EU’s eco-planned economy and climate clientelism on the other hand weaken our ability to compete and innovate. Without a withdrawal from the withdrawal from nuclear energy, Germany slides ever further into its self-entangled energy crisis.

 

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Jörg Meuthen, October 5, 2021, EU-USA Relations – Picula Report

AfD Kompakt, October 5, 2021.

Good relations with Washington are in our interest. It is therefore important that our interests be respected by Washington. In the past, that was not always the case: One thinks of the U.S.A.’s attempt to hinder Nord Stream 2 or to entangle us in interventionist foreign policy adventure, the consequences of which have more harmed us than been of use. From there proceeds a not unfounded scepticism in regards U.S. foreign policy. This scepticism however ought not mislead to proceeding on a confrontation course with the U.S.A.

Trade is the key for good relations. If goods do not cross the borders, soldiers will, a French economist once said. And what the Picula Report on EU-US relations today discussed in the EU parliament here establishes is correct: Among other things, an intensification and improvement of trade relations between the EU and the U.S.A. and a reciprocal suspension and deconstruction of tariffs.

Nevertheless, the Picula Report cannot be agreed to because it mixes up interests policy with a leftist ideology: Where it should be about an adjustment of interests eye to eye, it deals with an LGBTIQ fetish, gender equality, an indirect forced vaccination, internet censorship on account of alleged hate speech, so-called racism, and climate dirigisme. Trade policy thus becomes a vehicle of a leftist cultural revolution.

We reject this and demand closer yet de-ideologized relations with the U.S.A.

 

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Alice Weidel, October 3, 2021, Debt Brake

AfD Kompakt, October 3, 2021.

The demand of the presidents of the Federal and State audit authorities for an observance of the debt brake is a last minute warning cry. Under pretense of overcoming the Corona crisis, state debt exploded and German state finances have been ruined. The inflation spiral gathers speed and threatens Mittlestand and middle-class with long-term expropriation and impoverishment in favor of a strengthening of the state’s power of expenditure which now already ruptures every reasonable standard.

The debt orgies of the last Merkel years are not allowed to become the permanent state of affairs. The next Federal government needs to once more turn around this development instead of concluding new, foul compromises at the cost of the savers and taxpayers. The debt brake is an important guarantee against the breaking of the last dams against fiscal redistribution from below to above and therefore needs be defended.

Required investments for resolving the reorganization and investments status are also possible under the debt brake conditions. For that, the state needs to set clear priorities which drive down consumptive expenditures and especially stop the exorbitant flow of means to the EU and international system. So as to preserve its prosperity, the German economy requires solid state finances and a hard currency. Neither is to be had in the present situation.

 

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