Monday, August 22, 2022

Alice Weidel, August 17, 2022, Gas Assessment

AfD Kompakt, August 17, 2022.

Scarcities of gas and electricity are not sudden natural events but the result of the Federal government’s policy. This negative situation might be turned around if only there was the political will for it. Yet the Ampel lacks even this. A German Finance Minister in the present situation cannot let Brussels decide whether or not the value added tax is allowed to apply to the gas assessment. The gas assessment costs for the citizens thus now increase – whereby is crowned a senseless idea.

The gas assessment does not in fact offer relief in the energy crisis, but a turning away from the Ampel’s ideological Russia and energy policy does. The start up of Nord Stream 2 as well as the continued use of coal and nuclear power again need to be on the table. The Ampel must no longer let itself be led exclusively by ideology in these questions but must commit itself to the interests of the citizens – just like the AfD!

 

[trans: tem]

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

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]

 

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

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!

 

[trans: tem]