Overview
- The AfD publicly presented the strategy paper in Strasbourg on Wednesday that calls for abolishing the European Parliament in its current form, ending the Commission’s right of initiative, and replacing direct MEP elections with national-parliament delegates.
- The paper signals a shift away from an immediate euro exit while demanding a fundamental redesign of the euro system, including limiting the ECB to price stability and boosting Germany’s voting weight in ECB decisions.
- The AfD plans to use political leverage such as cutting German contributions, shrinking the EU budget, and pursuing national referendums to force change if treaty amendments cannot be secured through normal EU processes.
- Major legal and political barriers make the programme hard to implement because treaty changes require unanimous approval from all 27 member states and EU law’s supremacy would need renegotiation, with many governments and EU institutions expected to resist.
- The initiative is pitched as a long-term strategy to exploit possible right‑wing majorities after the 2029 elections and to build ties with parties like France’s RN and Austria’s FPÖ, even though such cross‑party cooperation faces political limits and the AfD holds only 27 of 719 MEP seats.