>GERMAN eurosceptics could push for the country to quit the EU by 2024 unless the bloc is “completely changed” after the upcoming European Parliament elections.
>Alternative for Germany (AfD) commited to delivering “Dexit” unless the EU can undertake its “fundamental reform approaches” in the next legislative period between 2019-2024. While a German exit from the EU should only be seen as a “last option”, the growing eurosceptic movement is attempting to implement a number of radical EU changes. One of its reforms would see the European Parliament and 751 MEPs effectively scrapped in favour of a “European assembly” of just 100 delegates.
>The AfD states that if the reforms are not implemented “we deem necessary to consider a withdrawal of Germany or an orderly dissolution of the European Union and the establishment of a new European economic and interest community”.
>According to the party, 44,000 EU officials and 11,000 employees cost over €8billion a year – 4,000 of those officials earn more than €290,000 a year, which is more than the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s salary.
>AfD is also considering to drop the euro as the EU’s single currency and the bloc’s climate change targets in their planned sweeping changes.
>According to election analysts Europe Elects, the AfD, who currently reside in Nigel Farage’s EFDD group, could become the second largest group by attracting fellow right-wingers the ECR and ENF.
>The pollster’s projection would see the group win 161 seats in the EU Parliament, leaving them just 17 seats away from becoming the largest and most powerful team of MEPs.
>Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister and ENF representative, and influential former Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who represents the ECR, have already met to discuss a potential unification pact.
>Katrin Ebner-Steiner of the AfD told jubilant party supporters she would spend the next five years “representing your strong voice” at a time when Germany and Bavaria were in a “dreadful state” over migration.
>“We’re cut from a different wood from the bloodless mainstream parties,” she said, promising to “fight for victory not for us, but for Bavaria”.
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