Frost is sweeping through Europe: in Germany they are proposing a “Brexit” to leave the EU

In this Europe of changing temperatures, it comes from politics a chilling proposition: the far-right party, accused of being influenced by Nazi ideasAlliance for Germanyhas just proposed, through one of its main leaders, Alice Weidel, the initiative to hold a popular referendum so that the Germans say “no” and leave the European Union.

Germany It is the leading European powerthe most populated with 83 million inhabitants and the richest, with a very high level of well-being and social protection, although mortified in recent years by economic problems that have diminished the driving force of its economy.

Widel took as a model for following the Brexit that this meant Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in the referendum on June 23, 2016. “The decision was right and is a model for Germany,” Weidel said in an interview with the “Financial Times”.

Some wonder what film Widel saw because today the English regret their withdrawal from the European Common Market. On an economic level, the results were disastrous. The majority of the United Kingdom calls for finding the way back to the Union, which it will not be easy.

But the example serves to raise the specter of a referendum on Germany’s break with the Union, which It will have much worse consequences than Brexit in Britain.

An immediate survey reported that the 85% of Germans agree with membership of the EU and 52% of them affiliated with the right-wing AfD, they do not want to leave the European house.

A plan to disintegrate the EU

In reality, Weidel’s threat aims to do this push the tide of the far right in the European Union itself, which under the cloak of conservatism, promotes the Europe of homelandsIndeed a federalization that overturns everything and put an end to the EU principles.

The far right They intend to restore the sovereignty of the member statesthe so-called Europe of Homelands, and not as has happened today since 1975 in which each country gives up part of its sovereignty in favor of the common government, especially in the economy, handing over the governance of loans, the management of interests, the transfer of positions to collective institutions common to the European Bank.

This system has existed since 1975 and has been strengthened. Allowed the birth of the common currency, of an immense bank based in Frankfurt and the period of greatest prosperity in memory for 500 million Europeans.

THE political and economic stumbles have facilitated the birth of the growing right-wing protest, which supports its necessity recover national control of sovereignty. The German government finds Weidell’s statements as leader of Alternative for Germany worrying.

The State Secretary for Economy, Franziska Branter, of the Greens in government, believes that Germany’s exit from the European Union could also damage the foundations of the welfare system conquered, which is very high.

Branter argues that Europe’s internal market could jeopardize Germany’s economic success first exporting country in Europe. Worse, the threat from the far right “would cause serious damage to the German economy, companies and workers.”

2024 It could be a disastrous year for democratic Germany, if Alianza and other right-wing parties questioned the political balance. For the three government parties led by Prime Minister Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, supporting the Alliance’s demands would lead to “uncontrollable consequences” first and foremost for the national economy.

It would also produce a huge shock across Europe. The Green MP stated that “Germany’s exit from the European Union would seriously jeopardize the foundations of our prosperity”.

Several deputies recalled with anecdotes and data the very negative consequences that the withdrawal from Europe following Brexit has produced in the United Kingdom.

Furthermore, a Social Democratic MP recalled that according to the German Constitution referendums are already practically impossible, which would give rise to a situation of enormous national confrontation.

However, far-right leader Weidell insisted on describing the European Union as “ “a failed project” and “irreformable”.

It should be remembered that the Alternative Manifesto for Germany, born in 2013 and entered the Bundestag with a patrol of deputies in 2017, openly argues that the time has come to replace the European Union a new “confederation of European nations” in which its members recover national sovereignty.

It will be there in the middle of this year elections to the European Parliament in which the degree of penetration in the electorate that the polls give to Alternativa is measured.

In the month of September the lander (regions) of Tübingen, Saxony and Brandenburg, in the east of the country, the authorities will be renewed. Surveys assign a victorious 30%. to the far right of the Alternative.