EU “failed project”
Weidel describes Brexit as a “model for Germany”
January 22, 2024, 12:22 p.m
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The AfD calls for reform of the EU. If this is not possible, she also considers a “Dexit” referendum based on the British model to be conceivable, says party leader Alice Weidel in an interview. Britain’s exit from the EU was “absolutely right”.
AfD leader Alice Weidel described the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union as “absolutely right” and a “model for Germany” in an interview. Should her party come into government, she would strive for EU reform in order to resolve its “democratic deficit,” Weidel said in an interview published in English with the London Financial Times.
If this reform is not possible, the population should decide in a referendum whether Germany should remain in the EU, said Weidel. The AfD decided on its candidate lists and program for the European elections in June in Magdeburg last summer. “We believe the EU cannot be reformed and see it as a failed project,” the program says. “We are therefore striving for a ‘Federation of European Nations’, a newly founded European economic and interest community in which the sovereignty of the member states is safeguarded.”
The AfD is not ruling out a referendum on Germany’s possible exit from the EU. “It is the obvious right of every people in the European Union to vote on remaining in the EU, monetary union and other supranational projects,” the program says. This right is “withheld from us in Germany by the parties that have been in power for decades.” The AfD’s top candidate in the European elections on June 9th is the controversial Saxon politician Maximilian Krah. So far, the AfD is represented by nine members in the European Parliament.