Overview
- Citing a meeting of AfD EU, federal and state MPs on 29 September, party figures disclosed an internal strategy paper that drops a demand for an immediate German exit from the euro in favor of a program of EU and eurozone reform.
- The paper proposes concrete monetary measures such as forcing settlement of TARGET payment imbalances, curbing what it calls indirect ECB financing of governments, and creating an insolvency framework for member states to restore national debt responsibility.
- On institutional questions the AfD calls for a ‘Bund souveräner Nationen’ that narrows EU powers to the single market, border protection and security, creates national opt-outs on migration, social and fiscal rules, and ends direct elections to the European Parliament in favor of delegation by national parliaments.
- René Aust, head of the AfD group in the European Parliament, presented the paper as evidence the party can cooperate with neighbors while insisting Germany must stop being Europe’s ‘paymaster,’ and the document ties implementation to electoral gains centered on the 2029 Bundestag goal.
- Reporting is based on a Bild-sourced internal paper discussed on 29 September with further coverage by Die Zeit, Der Tagesspiegel and Junge Freiheit, and the shift could complicate EU treaty politics because the proposed changes would require agreement from other member states and formal treaty revision.