The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebration agreed on Friday to hitch the European Identity and Democracy (ID) celebration, its ideologically aligned group on the European stage.
“The European Union is an undemocratic construct incapable of reform, the EU project has failed,” the previous parliament member Roland Hartwig stated at a celebration convention.
Joining the ID celebration, he stated, was a brand new method to preventing the “presumptions and incompetence of the EU” from inside, along with allies from different nations.
The ID celebration is a political group of the European parliament bringing collectively a coalition of nationalist, right-wing and eurosceptic events within the European Union.
It consists of French populist chief Marine Le Pen’s National Rally celebration and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).
Hartwig reassured celebration members that the AfD would stay a totally autonomous German celebration even when it joined ID. He burdened nevertheless, that the ID’s technique corresponds to that of the AfD and that ID prioritizes nationwide sovereignty.
The ID Party is “a very suitable platform to further advance networking with European sister parties of the AfD,” wrote an announcement.
Moreover, it stated, the ID celebration will get funding from the EU finances.
Some AfD members opposed the accession saying: “With our national voice speaking directly for German interests even at the EU level, our positions carry more weight and have more chance of success than in an EU party designed for compromise.”
Another AfD member stated by becoming a member of the ID celebration: “We are losing our credibility.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
