Britain has the UKIP party; Germany has got the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party, translated: Alternative for Germany. Both are equally hated by the establishment. The media do all they can to portray them as dangerous, right-wing, beer-hall populists.
In a nutshell: they are a threat to the cozy establishment.
Last September the AfD party barely missed reaching the 5% hurdle in Germany’s national elections, and thus just missed taking seats in Parliament. Some claim the results were tampered with in order to keep the enfant terrible party out. No matter the result, the party did send a clear message, and it continues to send such messages today.
In it’s latest press release, the AfD announces its position on Germany’s renewable energy feed-in act, calling for its abolishment.
The energy summit last Tuesday at the federal Chancellor’s Office missed its targets. The planned, low-impact slowdown in the expansion of wind and solar was softened considerably using tricks. The rise in the renewable energy feed-in act (EEG) subsidies will continue to gallop on ahead unhindered, so concluded even a proponent of the transition to renewable energies, Holger Krahwinkel, of the consumer associations. Share prices of wind energy plant builder Nordex at times shot up by 7%.
‘The EEG charges is driving the electricity costs dramatically upwards,’ explains Dr. Alexander Gauland, spokesman for the Alternative für Deutschland. ‘Already they are among the highest in Europe. Since the start of the EEG act, the payments made by power grid operators to the owners of renewable energy plants have totaled to be more than 120 billion euros – paid by the consumers. Just in 2013 the figure was 23 billion euros – the tendency is strongly upwards.’
Gauland summarizes: ‘That’s why every ‘correction’ or ‘reform’ amounts only to a senseless doctoring of the symptoms. The cost burden on the German consumer is already very immense and is no longer bearable for more than 600,000 households. At the same time more industrial jobs are moving to cheaper foreign countries. That number is already tens of thousands, and also here the trend is strongly upwards. This is why the AfD is requesting the immediate abolishment of the EEG act. It has made this request an official position in its European election program.“
German and EU Bloc party politics should be accompanied by a laugh track.
They are fringe parties at the moment but the more the cost to consummers rises the less fringe they will become. It is going to be a slow process but it will almost certainly happen.
Both this up and coming Euro-elections and the following country elections will be vert interesting.
Thanks, Pierre, for making this available to the English speaking audience! It shows to abroad that there are not fools only over here.
But guess what – in the so called “flagship”-paper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” so far there was no notice about this whatsoever at all! The main editor of this paper is Heribert Prantl, which is why his paper is called the “Prantl-Pravda”.
If the Main Stream Media keep silent concerning the program of this party (which I elected last fall!) I don’t know how this will go on.
Chris Frey
Well munich is a leftist shithole.
Unfortunately, Achse Des Guten (Maxeiner, Miersch, Broder) turns out to be an Anti AfD, pro Bloc party website…
http://www.achgut.com/dadgdx/index.php/dadgd/article/alternative_fuer_russland
…Broder feeds his inner AntiGerman…