Poliik: AfD Wants to Completely Rebuild the EU
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The AfD leader presents a European political programme in Strasbourg. The Brussels institutions are to be deprived, but at least: there is no talk of an exit from the EU and the euro.
At the end of August, Alice Weidel was still sure that he would want to get out of the EU in the event of a government takeover. Now the plans of the AfD sound different. "We are a European-friendly party," says an AfD European politician.
AfD leader Weidel visits the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Weidel calls for more power for nation states and less competence for the EU Commission.
"The protection of borders is a prerogative of sovereign states. If the European Union is unable to protect our external borders, then it is up to individual sovereign states to protect their national borders. (ANSA)
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said the EU needs serious reform and that her party wants to rebuild it. Arguing that if Schengen isn't working, then borders should be protected, Weidel called for the transfer of powers to national parliaments.
Alice Weidel spoke to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to demand the return of national competences on the borders and to discuss the role of the Esn Group in relation to the accusations of the Authority for European political parties Read more Weidel to the European Parliament: schengen, sovereignty and funds to the parties on News.it.
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