Germans from the victorious AfD party threaten the EU: either obey or we’ll disband it

TheEuropean Union must “behave itself” or Germany will leave the bloc, threatened the leader of the far-right AfD party. A threat, however, that no one is afraid of now.

Alice Weidel, co-chair of Alternative for Deutschland, argues that the European Union would not survive a “Dexit” – Germany’s version of Brexit – but her country would.

Ms. Weidel also attacked other parties for refusing to enter a coalition with the AfD after its triumph in the eastern state of Thuringia on Sunday.

The party came within a whisker of victory in another state, Saxony, in the best election result for the far right in Germany since the rise of Nazism.

“Germany, in order to survive, does not need the EU. The EU, on the contrary, needs Germany. The EU must behave accordingly. Only under these conditions will Germany’s exit from the EU be made unnecessary,” Ms. Weidel said.

She told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, “Dexit, Germany’s exit from the EU, is a last resort for us. We don’t want to destroy things, but to reform them. “But this will only happen if our European partners understand that they must respect our vital interests.”

Ms. Weidel said in January that Germany could hold a referendum on EU membership and that Brexit could be “a model” for the country. Björn Höcke, leader of the AfD in Thuringia, one of its strongholds in former East Germany, has sponsored a resolution to dissolve the EU in 2022.

The AfD was founded by euroskeptic university professors, so that “Tolerating” the existence of the EU, as long as it bends to Germany’s needs, almost appears to be a step forward. In the end, the Euro proved, until the war between Ukraine and Russia, to be the strongest tool for German economic growth.

Isolation and superficiality make threats useless, for now

AfD is, however, very isolated in the German landscape. Even if it wins the German federal elections, it is unlikely to go into government, at least immediately.

If the percentages were high, however, the only way to keep it out of power would be a “Grosse koalitione” with very heterogeneous political forces inside and no real common program.

AfD vigorously defends itself against accusations of having extremist positions and of being a pro-Russian party. The party leadership then considers it extremely undemocratic to be excluded from power despite having 30 percent of the vote.

The decision to create a political barrier against AfD actually puts a strain on all other political forces, which have great difficulty in forming coherent governments. The exclusion then comes to legitimize AfD as Germany’s only real political opposition force.

We are sure that other apesi would not be better off

Moreover, AfD’s threat to dissolve the EU could be taken positively but many countries: for France, Greece and Italy, the EU has been a time of economic and political decline. Without the Euro, Germany would be forced to return to its excessively strong moenta, with the attendant consequences for exports.
So AfD’s threat is completely empty of efficiacia, even in the reality of the economy.