The German government is again strapped for cash. And rather than scale back on some of its most costly and unnecessary schemes, such as its ‘green’ agenda, the SPD is planning on borrowing more money to keep them going.
Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil is expected on Tuesday, April 28th, to present a draft budget with billions of euros in deficits. His party looks to be working towards suspending the debt brake, bashed by Junge Freiheit as “already weakened,” so that it can spend even more.
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, on Monday criticised this additional “burden on the citizens,” given that “interest payments are already threatening to crush the country,” and said “a real political turnaround [is needed] now.”
Weidel’s comments are significant, since the latest national polling put the AfD at a record 28%—double the score of the SPD.
Umfrage-Beben: @AfD kommt auf nie dagewesene 28 Prozent bundesweit!
Die AfD legt im Sonntagstrend von INSA für die „Bild“-Zeitung einen weiteren Prozentpunkt zu und kommt jetzt auf 28 Prozent bundesweit. So viel wie noch nie in dieser Umfrage!
Dutch former MEP Rob Roos said this was proof that “Europeans are done with neoliberalism,” adding: “It’s not progressive, it’s regressive.”
It’s hollowing out our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom. We’re being replaced in our own countries, forced to pay for it, while they brand any complaint ‘disinformation’ to shut us up.
Weidel also responded to the poll by asking whether Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU will “come to its senses and give up … the SPD as coalition partner,” because “Germany has no time left.”
It is worth noting, then, that officials from the CDU have been “outraged” by the SPD’s demand for more debt. For example, the party’s general secretary, Carsten Linnemann, has accused her coalition partner of “political laziness.”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
