AfD leader calls for Germany to leave euro and Schengen
Alternative for Germany co-leader Alice Weidel said her party would seek Germany’s withdrawal from the euro and the Schengen Area if it enters the federal government.
Speaking in ZDF’s summer interview, Weidel said Germany had been better off before adopting the euro, arguing that the common currency had weakened the German economy and reduced household wealth.
On migration, Weidel said an AfD-led government would close Germany’s borders and leave the Schengen Area. She also called for more deportations and fewer naturalizations.
AfD targets migration policy
Weidel said Germany should deport people whose protection status has ended, including Syrians who no longer qualify for protection.
She also criticized Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil’s Social Democratic Party, while attacking the CDU’s refusal to cooperate with the AfD.
“We will govern in the first federal states,” Weidel said. “And we will also govern at the federal level.”
Party gains support ahead of elections
The AfD is polling above 40% in Saxony-Anhalt ahead of the Sept. 6 state elections, according to Forschungsgruppe Wahlen.
Nationally, the AfD is polling at 27%, compared with 22% for the CDU, according to the same research institute.
AfD rejects climate policies
Weidel also reaffirmed the party’s opposition to a planned ban on new combustion-engine vehicles.
She rejected measures aimed at addressing human-caused climate change, reinforcing the AfD’s opposition to several key German and European climate policies.
Source:AA
