Uwe Witt, July 22, 2020, Small Business Grants

Uwe Witt

Small Business Grants

AfD Kompakt, July 22, 2020

[Uwe Witt is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the western German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. He is human resources manager and here refers back to an AfD motion (Drucksache 19/18145) introduced in the Bundestag in March of this year for the relief of small business and the self-employed during the Corona crisis.]

Our motion contained the demand that the self-employed and the small businessmen be rescued from an economic stop with emergency grants-in-aid [nicht rückzahlbaren Soforthilfen]. The government parties and the other opposition delegations rejected our supplementary motion sight unseen and decided for the government model. Yet now the government’s emergency aid turns out to be a coffin nail for the German self-employed and small businessman. The applicants feel themselves deceived by the government due to subsequent implementation examinations and forced to an existential stop by the four month delay resulting from the Merkel government’s senseless measures for containing the Corona virus.

Thus he who maintains no business space because he works from home, leases no machinery and so forth, will have a problem proving the lack of liquidity and may need be prepared to pay back – completely or partially – up to 9,000 euros. Once again, Merkel, Scholz & Co. turn out to be the lobbyists of the large concerns while they leave it to the German small businessmen to cross the economic Jordan with open eyes.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Tino Chrupalla, July 20, 2020, Violence against Police

Tino Chrupalla

Violence against Police

AfD Kompakt, July 20, 2020

[Tino Chrupalla is a national chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and an AfD Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Saxony.]

What took place in Stuttgart a few weeks ago and now continues in Frankfurt must be seen as an intensification of rebellion against the Germans [Verschärfung des Aufbegehrens gegen die Deutschen], for whom the police stand in the streets as proxies. They thus now become a target of the anger of a dependent, migrant generation who reject integration into our society.

The responsibility for these riots is borne by those politicians and those in the media who in recent years have pandered to an uncontrolled, mass immigration and who attempt to put off an honest description of certain groups of perpetrators. In Stuttgart and Frankfurt, the “Party Scene” is not escalating; here, young men test out how much violence they can commit against the German police without being punished. That these violent perpetrators here have plenty of leeway is also due to the lack of political support. The constant racism accusation against the police unleashes against them an applied violence. There must now be an end to that. The Frankfurt police have already analyzed the problem with refreshing honesty and must now be able to perform their work. The necessary consequences are to be rapidly drawn from the occurrences so as to prevent further violent excesses.

[Translated by Todd Martin]

Jörg Meuthen, July 20, 2020, EU Collective Debt

Jörg Meuthen

EU Collective Debt

AfD Kompakt, July 20, 2020

[Jörg Meuthen is a national chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and he leads 
the AfD’s delegation in the European Parliament where the AfD is part of the Identity 
and Democracy party.]

If the EU establishment considers thrift and a no to collective irresponsibility by means of a debt community to be divisive, then this only shows how standards have meanwhile slipped in Brussels – namely, in the completely wrong direction. There remains hope that Netherlands premier Rutte and Austrian Chancellor Kurz remain firm and do not allow themselves to be impressed by the insolent provocations of Merkel, Macron & Co. We Germans would be grateful to them should we thereby be spared a sum totaling billions. That Merkel urges the opposite only shows that she does not concern herself with German interests but rather once again sells these. Borrowing through the EU violates all principles and economic reason. 

 

[Translated by Todd Martin]