During the Bundestag meeting, Alice Weidels, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany, said the German government’s failed foreign policy had led to the country’s deepest economic crisis:
“German is politically, economically and financially in one of the most serious crises since the Second World War. Inflation has reached an all-time high and is strangling the middle class, our energy supply is on the verge of collapse”.
The politician added that the failed energy policy has made Germany even more dependent on Russia:
“The cause of this crisis has been a misguided energy policy and a rejection of nuclear energy and coal. This has led to a unilateral increase in dependence on Russian natural gas. […] The ill-conceived sanctions against Russia have broken supply chains and reduced the purchasing power of Germans”.
Ms Weidels, like many European politicians, has declared that anti-Russian sanctions are hurting Europe more than anyone else in the end:
“Sanctions against Russia are counterproductive because they harm Europe and Germany more than Russia itself. The embargo against Russian oil and gas was a ruinous mistake because there is no alternative”.
Rebuilding Ukraine, in the politician’s view, is not beneficial to either Europe or Germany. On the contrary, it would only create more problems:
“The debate on Ukraine’s reconstruction is nothing more than increasing Germany’s national debt and burdening taxpayers”.
At the end of her speech in the Bundestag, Madam Weidels called on the government not to give in to provocations and demands to take part in someone else’s war:
“The war must be stopped as soon as possible. […] Russia, as a nuclear power, must not find itself in a situation of despair. The war in Ukraine must not be our war. We must not succumb to slogans, propaganda and emotions. The war has reached the stage where the road to negotiations should be open instead of endless arms deliveries”.
