AfD on the economy

As a state government, the AfD wants to push the federal government and the EU to reverse the phase-out of new combustion engine cars. Supply chain laws and the related EU directives should also be repealed, because the platform sees them as harmful to business and workers.

The EU plans to stop allowing new cars with combustion engines. The AfD wants to stop this ban. It also wants to end the supply chain laws. These laws make companies check their suppliers. The AfD says this hurts companies and workers.

The platform cites the ban on registering new combustion engine cars as an example of what it considers overly harsh regulation of the auto industry. An AfD-led government would therefore step up pressure on Berlin and Brussels. Besides the combustion engine ban, laws and directives on supply chains should be repealed. The AfD ties this to its goal of preserving the state's auto industry.

The AfD wants a fundamental reduction of regulation in the state: state rules would expire automatically after ten years at most, and two old rules would be dropped for every new one. EU requirements would be implemented only to the mandatory minimum, and the Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (supply chain due diligence act) would be abolished.

The AfD wants fewer rules for businesses. State laws should end on their own after ten years. For every new rule, two old rules should go. Applications should count as approved after three months. The supply chain law should be scrapped.

Under the sunset principle, state laws, programs, ordinances and administrative rules would lapse after no more than ten years unless someone gives a substantive reason to keep them. Rules would stay only if their benefit can be shown, with reviews done digitally and with AI. EU law would be implemented without national tightening and without extra reporting duties. Where possible, a simple notification would replace a permit, and a complete application would count as approved after three months. Reporting duties would be cut to a minimum, which the program justifies by the burden on small and medium-sized firms. Permits for commercial sites would also be sped up, and the state would secure enough affordable land for industry and commerce.