Peter Boehringer, August 3, 2022, ECB Loan Purchases

AfD Kompakt, August 3, 2022.

After just a few weeks is shown that the ECB’s new loan purchase program, in the view of the AfD clearly counter to treaty and thus unlawful, proceeds entirely at the cost of the Germans. The Germans, who are primarily liable for the permanent rescue of the euro, now immediately receive with the evidently permanent asymmetric purchases of the ECB the worst of all worlds: High inflation as a result of the incessant printing of money in the eurozone’s “inflation community”, and also at the same time, climbing interest rates for credit for German individuals, businesses and even for the German state – while the Italian and Spanish indebtedness remains much too favorable or even becomes more favorable. The fathers of the Maastricht Treaty wanted to prevent exactly this state financing by the ECB as well as this liability and transfer community for excessive (southern) European debt-makers. Yet the corresponding Articles 123 and 125 of today’s EU Treaty will be ever more shamelessly ignored by the ECB.

Besides, the purchases, heedless of the ECB capital ratios and in the view of the Federal Constitutional Court actually illegal, nevertheless will not in the long term save the failed currency experiment of the euro because it deals with a faulty construction which besides harms all participants. Meanwhile, only the AfD has from the beginning stated these fully obvious facts.

Since now the ECB with its new programs even permanently institutionalizes the treaty violation, the long term decline of euro crisis and money devaluation is to be ended only by means of an exit of Germany from the euro’s permanently law-breaking “community of fate”. If we do not do this in good time, the entire cost of the southern European over-indebtedness is to be borne by the ultimately liable Germany, and thereby remains hanging over the German taxpayer, or – more likely – by all people through high rates of inflation, or in the form of a euro becoming ever weaker and ultimately by means of a “currency reform”. The volume of weak loans which will accumulate ever more dramatically in the ECB balance with many trillions of euros will ultimately exceed the entire financial assets of all Germans!

 

[trans: tem]

 

Tino Chrupalla, August 15, 2022, Economic War

AfD Kompakt, August 15, 2022.

The Federal government requests cash from the citizens alone. Had not Herr Habeck declared economic war on Russia, the rescue of the gas concerns would not at all be necessary. And the time limit is nothing more than a placebo for the citizens. A normalization of the energy trade is not at all in sight. The Green Economy Minister has buried Nord Stream 2 long-term. It would be right to immediately begin operation of the gas pipeline. Then there would be a surplus of good value gas.

Foreign Minister Baerbock uses war rhetoric against China even though Germany obtains important raw material and products for renewable energies from there. FDP Secretary-General Djir-Sarai has even brought China sanctions into play. No assessment can undo the damages which the Ampel inflicts with its values-led foreign policy. Chancellor Scholz must bring his coalition partners to reason and stop the economic war against our trade partners. What would help the citizens would be a policy guided by interests!

 

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Alice Weidel, August 10, 2022, Immigration and Knife Attacks

AfD Kompakt, August 10, 2022.

The Federal government again sets up incentives by which it does not emancipate itself from the EU but willingly admits a not nearly figured number of illegal migrants from Italy.

It thereby conducts itself with utter negligence in relation to the taxpayers in Germany, for it is the working people who must finance this immigration policy. Quite without regard to that, the answer to a current question by the AfD in the Nordrhein-Westfalen Landtag shows which security risks for the people in our country accompany this uncontrolled immigration. Since 2019, the number of knife attacks alone in NRW climbed to around 20,000; at the same time, the portion of non-German suspects climbed to a record level with 41.7 percent.

We of the AfD therefore demand of the Federal government to return the focus to the well-being of one’s own people. Instead of willingly opening our social system and ever further hollowing out the domestic security, we need to reconstruct our national sovereignty and defend our own interests.

 

[trans: tem]