Dissolve the EU and found a new confederation
The AfD calls for dissolving the European Union by mutual agreement. It would be replaced by a new European economic and interest community organized as a confederation of sovereign states.
The AfD wants to dissolve the EU. All countries should agree to this together. After that there should be a new community. In it, the countries stay independent.
The platform describes the institutions in Brussels as remote from democracy and as the real center of political power in Germany. The AfD rejects an "EU superstate" and speaks of European renewal. The successor organization would be a confederation of sovereign democracies with an economic focus.
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„Wir fordern eine einvernehmliche Auflösung der EU und die Gründung einer neuen europäischen Wirtschafts- und Interessengemeinschaft als einem Staatenbund souveräner Demokratien.“Translation: We call for a consensual dissolution of the EU and the founding of a new European economic and interest community as a confederation of sovereign democracies.
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- Europeclearly less EU
The EU would be dissolved and replaced by a loose confederation, returning all powers to the nation states.