Ralf Stadler, August 18, 2022, Bavarian Farmers' Protests

AfD Kompakt, August 18, 2022.

In a time of war in Ukraine, numerous export bans on agricultural goods, frequent breakdowns in supply chains and a steadily increasing inflation in regards foodstuffs, the EU’s environmental packet is a false signal. The professionally over-charged Minister Özdemir already needed to back-pedal and has signaled provisionally setting aside the non-cultivation obligation [Pflichtbrache] and the crop rotation for the 2023 harvest year. The unrealistic environmental policy of the Greens has thus failed all along the line. The farmers’ massive protests have thus shown effect.

From the Bavarian State government the farmers as usual receive no support. On the contrary: State Economy Minister Kaniber voted with the Greens in the Bundesrat for further restrictions on farming. She thereby endangers not only farm livelihoods but the population’s food supply. Only the AfD is strong for the farmers. Our food is not to become a luxury!

 

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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!

 

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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!

 

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