IIRC from reading Quinn Slobodian’s books on free market radicals the precursor to the AfD were right wing libertarians, and those people used to be afraid that the EU would “smuggle in socialism” through regulations and stuff. Nowadays those type of ideologues mostly love the EU and like you said the AfD itself abandoned that for more protectionist policies and nationalism/scapegoating migrants.
But I’m sure the leadership understands that germany IS the EU and the euro, and its institutions are set up to make the german economic model the chief beneficiary, so abandoning it entirely instead of reforming it to be even more beneficial to germany seems like a thing they wouldn’t actually follow through.
Nevertheless it’s dreadful that this type of statement from the article:
Regarding the exit from the euro, the document states that “AfD is aware that the reintroduction of a stable national currency cannot happen without conversion costs. However, these will be lower than the permanent costs of remaining in the euro system”.
IIRC from reading Quinn Slobodian’s books on free market radicals the precursor to the AfD were right wing libertarians, and those people used to be afraid that the EU would “smuggle in socialism” through regulations and stuff. Nowadays those type of ideologues mostly love the EU and like you said the AfD itself abandoned that for more protectionist policies and nationalism/scapegoating migrants.
But I’m sure the leadership understands that germany IS the EU and the euro, and its institutions are set up to make the german economic model the chief beneficiary, so abandoning it entirely instead of reforming it to be even more beneficial to germany seems like a thing they wouldn’t actually follow through.
Nevertheless it’s dreadful that this type of statement from the article:
Is coming from the far right and not the left