Scholz’s Far-Right Rival Puts Germany’s EU Exit on the Ballot
- AfD co-leader Alice Weidel decries EU’s ‘socialist’ policies
- No. 2 party in the polls wants border control and cheap energy
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Alice Weidel, the long-shot chancellor candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany, slammed the European Union for destroying the country’s auto industry and proposed winding back the bloc to a free-trade zone.
“What we need to have is free trade among the European countries, but we don’t need all the bureaucracy,” co-leader of the second-strongest party in German polls told Bloomberg TV in Berlin. The EU’s “socialist policy making” has “destroyed the market mechanism in Europe.”