AfD on foreign affairs and defence

The AfD wants a foreign policy guided by German interests and realpolitik rather than a "values-based" approach. It rejects a common EU foreign and security policy and instead seeks a union of sovereign nations.

The AfD wants foreign policy to serve Germany first. The EU should not run a shared foreign policy. The countries of Europe should decide for themselves. Foreign organizations in Germany should say where their money comes from.

In the AfD's view, foreign policy to date has not made the world safer. Diplomacy and peaceful conflict resolution are to take priority. Instead of a centralized EU, the party wants a "Europe of fatherlands" as an economic and interest-based community that coordinates how it acts externally. It commits to international law and the UN Charter and to the principle that states do not interfere in each other's internal affairs. Foreign NGOs operating in Germany are to disclose their sources of funding.

The AfD rejects an eastward enlargement of the EU and NATO. It wants Europe to become strategically autonomous and a power center of its own. Until a European military alliance exists, Germany is to stay in NATO.

The AfD wants no new members in the east for the EU and NATO. Europe should be able to protect itself. Until then, Germany stays in NATO. The AfD wants to deal with the US, China, and Russia based on German interests.

According to the platform, a peace order in Europe should take the legitimate security interests of all European states into account. The AfD sees the world moving toward a multipolar order and wants to expand Germany's sovereignty. It seeks an interest-driven relationship with the US, China, and Russia alike, also to secure foreign trade and energy supply. Alongside NATO, Germany is to play an active role in the OSCE.

The AfD wants to reinstate the suspended military draft, including alternative civilian service, to make the Bundeswehr ready for action in personnel and equipment. It also wants to expand Germany's defense industry.

The AfD wants the draft back. The draft means young people must serve in the army for a time. Those who refuse do a substitute service. The Bundeswehr should get more money, staff, and equipment. Only Germans should be soldiers.

The platform considers the Bundeswehr unable to defend the country and attributes this to long underfunding, the transfer of equipment to Ukraine, and the training of Ukrainian soldiers. The forces are to be well funded and focused on national and alliance defense. Only German citizens are to serve, in order to rule out conflicts of loyalty. The AfD wants to limit privatization and centralization to cases where they demonstrably increase readiness; responsibility is to return to the service chiefs and commanders. Germany is to have an independent, capable defense industry.

The AfD wants a major buildup of the Bundeswehr against hybrid threats and cyberattacks, including offensive cyber capabilities. It also wants the armed forces to cultivate esprit de corps and military traditions again. For civilians, the platform calls for more shelters and working civil defense infrastructure.

The AfD wants to make the German army stronger against attacks over the internet. The army should also be able to attack online itself. Soldiers should keep old traditions alive. There should be more shelters for the public.

The platform calls for a massive strengthening of the Bundeswehr against hybrid threats and cyberattacks by state and non-state actors. Offensive cyber capabilities are meant to deter potential adversaries from attacking critical infrastructure. The AfD also wants the armed forces renewed in spirit: esprit de corps, the traditions of German military history, military songs and customs are to be cultivated, and the platform names honor, loyalty, comradeship and bravery as soldierly virtues. It argues that soldiers' motivation and attachment to Germany are decisive in wartime. On civil defense, the AfD says protections were dismantled after the Cold War and demands new, operational shelters.

The AfD wants the United Nations reformed to reflect shifts in global power. Germany is to get a permanent seat on the Security Council. The party wants to withdraw from the UN migration compact and the UN refugee compact.

The AfD wants to change the United Nations. Germany should get a permanent seat on the Security Council. The AfD wants to leave two UN agreements. These agreements are about migration and refugees.

The platform welcomes a multipolar world, meaning an order with several centers of power, and wants to use its opportunities while limiting its risks. The United Nations is to be reformed accordingly. Besides a permanent Security Council seat, the AfD demands that the so-called enemy state clause be removed from the UN Charter. It wants to terminate the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees.

The AfD seeks a new peace order in Europe based on cooperation among all European states and regard for their security interests. It wants to strengthen the OSCE, expand arms control and renegotiate suspended disarmament treaties. It rejects reparations claims by other countries.

The AfD wants a new order for peace in Europe. All European countries should work together. There should be more control of weapons. The AfD does not want to pay compensation for World War II.

The OSCE, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, is to play a larger role in stabilizing crisis regions. All channels for dialogue are to be used, and the AfD wants to prevent a new division of Europe. Treaties such as INF, START, ABM and MBFR are to be renegotiated. The party rejects reparations claims, for example from Poland and Greece, because it considers these matters settled under international law.

The AfD wants to end economic sanctions against Russia immediately and repair the Nord Stream pipelines to regain affordable energy. In its view, Ukraine should remain neutral and belong to neither NATO nor the EU. It rejects the planned stationing of long-range US weapons in Germany but wants better relations with the United States.

The AfD wants to end the sanctions against Russia right away. Sanctions are penalties in trade. The Nord Stream gas pipelines should be repaired. Ukraine should not join NATO or the EU. The AfD does not want new US missiles in Germany.

The platform describes Russia as a reliable energy supplier for decades and wants trade restored; ties with the Eurasian Economic Union are to grow as well. The AfD wants a better relationship with the United States and sees the new US administration as a partner on free speech and against what it calls internet censorship. At the same time it stresses diverging interests and warns against being drawn into conflicts by US decisions. US cruise missiles, drones and rockets are not to be stationed in Germany. The platform calls Turkey an important strategic partner, and in the Middle East it relies on confidence-building steps and wants to prevent new mass migration.

The AfD considers current development policy a failure and wants to align it with German security and economic interests. Aid is to go only to countries that take back their citizens who are required to leave Germany. Funding is to drop significantly because of the budget situation.

The AfD wants to spend less money on development aid. Only countries that take back their citizens from Germany should get aid. There should be more aid in kind and less money. China, India and Pakistan should get no more aid.

Partner countries are also expected to cooperate quickly in establishing the nationality of the people concerned. The platform demands full oversight of how funds are used, more in-kind support such as local training and infrastructure projects, and fewer cash transfers. Projects the AfD classifies as gender or woke ideology are to lose funding. Payments to China, India and nuclear powers such as Pakistan are to end. The party wants EU development policy handed back to the member states.