Major protests against far right and his hypothetical plan”ethnic expulsion“They keep trembling Germany, When you have a parliamentary arm, Alternative for Germany (AfD)), once again caused consternation in the political class and the economic world. He follows his leader’s statements. Alice WeidelBy calling the ‘Financial Times’ newspaper Exit from UK European Union (EU) through referendum and points the way for Germany, the bloc’s leading economy. “Being able to make such a sovereign decision is a model for Germany,” said Weidel, from the prestigious British media.
On behalf of the leader of the German social democracy in the European elections, Katharina BarleyWith this proposal, the AfD leader showed that he “doesn’t understand anything”. Andras Schwab, a German lawmaker from the conservative bloc, added: “Nothing could be more damaging to our economy than a crisis.” Dexit“, a pun based on the English Brexit – Deutschland, ‘D’ for Germany and ‘exit’ in English, exit.
The chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens Energy and Daimler Truck said the AfD’s plans for Europe “threaten” Germany’s economic power. Joe KaeserIn his statements to the Reuters agency.
The proposal to deport millions of foreign citizens and even naturalized immigrants was discussed at a meeting with neo-Nazis. potsdam (this) unleashed the largest protests against the AfD ever experienced these days, with hundreds of thousands of people marching across Germany. The plan is also considered as an attack against a terrorist organization. social solidarity In a country where a quarter of the population is not of German origin. The allusion to a Brexit via referendum is now clearer uninhabitable. Today the German Constitution does not intend to call for national consultation other than proposing a regional redistribution of the ‘Länder’ (federated states).
In the German media results Brexit was for england This would mean economic losses of 163 billion euros– and also collapse for Germany, whose economic power has been based on exports for decades. “They desire nothing more than Dexit” (Vladimir) Putin, Xi (Jinping) and (Donald) Trump“, the social democratic candidate specifically states in his account about Moscow.
Export collapse in European power
“Not only is this an economically disastrous fantasy, it is exporter model “It will collapse in record time,” warns the economic newspaper ‘Handelsblatt’. This newspaper, the German equivalent of the ‘Financial Times’, told Weidel, Cambridge Institute of Econometrics and reminds us of some figures on the consequences of Brexit for the British: According to media reports, 1.8 million jobs will disappear in 2023 and per capita income will fall by an average of 2,330 euros.
Another German newspaper ‘Frankfurter Rundschau’ thinks that Weidel’s proposal is probably an attempt to build a consensus. Smokescreen to divert attention after protests sparked by Potsdam meeting. Also note that this represents a new turn in the AfD’s orientation towards the EU. The party was born as a formation Eurosceptic In the middle of the euro crisis. According to the founding leaders, saves southern partners punished Germany. This founding idea did not provide the new party with the desired political platform; In the 2013 general election, the party fell below the minimum 5% required to win seats.
It turned into a party in 2015 xenophobicsupported by counter-protest vote migration crisis This led to a million people coming to Germany refugees. From then on he was unstoppable. He entered the Parliament in the following general elections and began to radicalise. As the founding leaders abandoned the party, Weidel and the rest of the current leadership wavered around initial Euroscepticism but did not decide to bet on Dexit.
In an interview with public broadcaster Phoenix last summer, Weidel said that Germany’s abandonment of the EU was a statement for him.“not part” of your program. At the last AfD congress, which focused on the European election campaign, the far-right party declared that the EU was “not subject to reform”. However, the proposal to leave Germany and the ““ordered dissolution” of the community blocas a current of the intended party.