Alice Weidel, August 9, 2022, Chancellor’s Office

AfD Kompakt, August 9, 2022.

While the policy drives the people in the country to an ever greater emergency of livelihood, the Federal government indulges itself in luxury. The now already fully over-dimensioned Chancellor’s Office came after an expansion to a ground area of 50,000 square meters which nearly corresponds to the area of seven football fields.

Such plans are an affront in the face of the taxpayers who as a result of the Ampel’s policy have been bequeathed an extreme debt. Caused primarily by the Federal government, our country finds itself in one of the most serious crises of the recent past. The strived for expansion of the Chancellor’s Office once more makes clear how far the governing politicians have distanced themselves from the citizens.

In this regard, I demand of the Federal government and the Berlin Senat to comprehensively stop the reconstruction of the Chancellor’s Office into a Chancellor’s Park. The means thereby freed up are to be committed to the relief of citizens in the present energy crisis.

 

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Gottfried Curio, August 1, 2022, Asylum Immigration

AfD Kompakt, August 1, 2022. 

Interior Minister Faeser having agreed just recently at the EU interior minister conference to make available 8,000 relocation places so as “to relieve” Mediterranean countries now even adds to it: Germany makes itself responsible for around 50,000 asylum applicants previously recognized in Greece who have further traveled here. Germany already agreed to financially support Greece in regards the accommodation of the asylum applicants. This is the ultimate dam break in European asylum law – all asylum applicants within the EU can thus further migrate to Germany as support cases. And this in Germany where already live the most migrants Europe-wide, and where is to be expected the highest number in five years of first-time applications – and by chance Berlin needed to activate an emergency plan for accommodation. Ex-Chancellor Merkel will be happy to see how her legacy is administered: Like she herself previously in 2015, Faeser wantonly ignores applicable law and statute and thus provokes an additional significant wave of immigration to Germany.

The Ampel government thereby puts its seal on the bankruptcy of the European asylum system. As a consequence of the logic applied, it is not to be expected that apparent asylum applicants apply for asylum in a European country other than Germany. Therefore now all repatriations of asylum applicants already registered in other EU states shall not be followed up and a repeat asylum petition in Germany will be accepted. Thus the entire Dublin III system has failed and was cleared away without a word from the Federal government.

The Ampel government itself needed to publicly communicate and declare the mentioned asylum practice as government policy. Yet it is nevertheless preferably hoped that a devoted media lays a cloak of silence over these intentional failures of state. In view of the straitened situation of the state finances, of the housing market, and of the economic crisis drawing near, the resulting voluntary extra burden due to these illegal government actions means a renunciation of the last solidarity with its own citizens. The AfD delegation demands the return to the applicable legal framework of Dublin III and – in view of the intra-European asylum tourism – the effective securing of the German borders.

 

[trans: tem]

 

 

 

Mariana Harder-Kühnel, August 2, 2022, Kindergeld

AfD Kompakt, August 2, 2022.

The European High Court [EuGH]’s decision increases the pressure on our social state and on those who must by their work generate the billions in tax money which here will be distributed on a grand scale. The EuGH no longer evaluates Kindergeld [child allowance] as a social benefit, since according to the opinion of the judges it does not serve for the guaranteeing of the living subsistence but for the compensation of the family costs [Ausgleich von Familienlastung]. The Court thereby again increases the incentive for abuse by migrants from southeast Europe and additional poor regions of the EU.

For comparison: The Kindergeld claim for three children for three months runs to some 2,000 euros in Germany. With a monthly average wage in Bulgaria of 800 euros, the income of German Kindergeld is more than lucrative. It is nevertheless the German taxpayers who finance the social state and not it happens Bulgarians seeking work. The basic idea of the freedom of movement in the EU is based on the employment of workers in other EU member states. Clearly not meant by that is the claim to more attractive social benefits. The Ampel is now obliged to find a sound legal solution so as to prevent further social tourism to Germany.

 

[trans: tem]

 

 

 

 

Alice Weidel, August 2, 2022, Foreign Minister Baerbock

AfD Kompakt, August 2, 2022.

Baerbock’s elevation of self knows no limits. Instead of driving the escalation spiral ever further, as in the Ukraine war, it would be the duty of the Federal government to engage in a mediating role. Surely the foreign policy in regards the war between the Ukraine and Russia shows that every heightening of our presence has serious consequences, primarily for the citizens of our country. To now overtly position oneself against China is a fire hazard.

In that regard, we of the AfD demand of Annalena Baerbock to verbally disarm and to again devote herself to diplomacy. That would be the core duty of a Foreign Minister who represents German interests.

 

[trans: tem]