Petr Bystron, July 21, 2022, Ukraine and the EU

AfD Kompakt, July 21, 2022.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg’s declaration that the Ukraine may be ready for the EU, although opposition parties were forbidden in the country in which opposition politicians were arrested or need go into exile and the opposition leader Viktor Medvedtschuk initially was held illegally in house arrest for over six months and later was imprisoned, is a new low point in the destruction of all previous legal standards in regards the observance of accession conditions in the EU.

Schallenberg’s statement that the Ukraine “in regards institutional stability as a guarantee for a democratic and legal order, the protection of human rights, as well as the respect and defense of minorities has on the whole progressed far”, can, in view of the massive human rights violations in the country, only be categorized as bare cynicism.

If the EU certifies a corrupt and decayed state the likes of the Ukraine as being compatible with the present composition of the EU, it thereby makes out its own declaration of bankruptcy. In the Ukraine, the erstwhile European values are being trampled under foot. Yet these are obviously no longer the values for which the EU vouches. Representatives of the EU should no longer presume to lay claim to European values.

The AfD delegation is for the strict maintenance of the accession criteria in regards all countries desiring entrance. The EU now already finds itself in a difficult crisis threatening its existence. It urgently requires an internal consolidation instead of a hurried expansion including additional countries in crisis.

 

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Tino Chrupalla, July 19, 2022, Gas Triage

AfD Kompakt, July 19, 2022.

The Alternative für Deutschland for months already warns that the sanctions more heavily affect Germany than Russia. It is gratifying that this recognition is now spoken of in the other parties. Chancellor Scholz needs to take seriously the warning of his general-secretary and secure the gas supply.

If it really comes to a gas triage, it is too late. Then countless businesses and employees will be intensive-care patients of the social system. The emergency case must be averted. De-escalation and diplomacy are called for with which the energy supply is again guaranteed.

 

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Alice Weidel, July 19, 2022, War and Ideology

AfD Kompakt, July 19, 2022.

There is a reason that out of the pacifist Greens grew a party which supports weapons deliveries to war zones, refuses any diplomacy and thereby a priori makes peace negotiations impossible. For the Greens evidently regard the war in the Ukraine as proper means for implementing their ideology.

Baerbock’s statements not only show how far ideological delusion has progressed in the governing party, but furthermore that the Greens well-nigh welcome a military conflict in the middle of Europe. Thereby also becomes clear the reason for Baerbock’s attitude of rejection in regards any diplomacy. It is after all striking that she rejected a talk with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, even though that would have been able to be a first step in the direction of peace.

Baerbock’s “climate change” is not the greatest “threat to our security”, but the Foreign Minister herself, just as is a Green party completely separated from Realpolitik, which understands the war as a “booster” for their ideological agenda and abandons our country to ruin. Following these statements of Baerbock, the Greens need to be immediately relieved of their responsibility.

 

[trans: tem]