Sunday, April 14, 2013

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) - new anti-Euro, anti-bailout party founded in Germany

Alternative für Deutschland: A German Eurosceptic movement? (DBresearch,Mar 4th 2013,via @Alea_)
Attack on united Euro front (wiwo.de , Apr 14th 2013,via @Schuldensuehner) #
German anti-euro party holds founding conference (BBC, Apr 14th 2013)
Tories build secret alliance with new Eurosceptic party in Germany (Telegraph, Apr 14 2013,@AnneLaumen)

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1,000 Germans abandon Angel Merkel for Eurosceptic party (Telegraph, Apr 14th 2013)
Analysis: Don't underestimate Germany's new anti-euro party (Reuters, Apr 14th 2013,@noahbarkin)
More than Euro criticism (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Apr 15th 2013)#

Coalition parties (& Labor) attack anti-Euro party (Spiegel, Apr 15th 2013)#
Wolfgang Münchau:Why the anti-Euro party endangers Merkel's election victory (Spiegel, Apr 17th 2013)#
Schäuble fears (CDU+FDP) votes could go to AfD (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Apr 20th 2013)#
Achtung, Ms Merkel. Euro rebels could enter parliament (Focus, Apr 20th 2013)#
Anti-Euro party AfD - First ignored now combatted (format.at, Apr 21st 2013, via @reuters_de)#
New German anti-euro party could enter parliament, poll suggests (Reuters, Apr 22 2013)
Anti-Euro party at 2% (survey) (sueddeutsche.de, Apr 24th 2013) #
Hans-Werner Sinn distances himself from anti-Euro party (FAZ, Apr 27th 2013)#
FDP (Liberals) MP in Hessen (state parliament) defects to AfD (Die Welt, May 5th 2013)
Parties of the establishment lose almost 2800 members to AfD (finanznachrichten.de, May 5th 2013)
Growing nervousness within the Conservatives (Rheinische Post, May 13th 2013)
Professor Starbatty joins the party (AfD) (AFP de, May 23rd 2013)
Five top economists against AfD (FAZ, Jun 1st 2013)
Lucke: "I deem a 2 figure (% election) result possible"(interview, stern.de, Jul 17th 2013) 
Elections: Starbatty warns of an European catastrophe (interview, Die Welt, Aug 19th) 

Video: Discussion with Dietmar Bartsch (Left party) and Bernd Lucke (AfD)
Für wen retten wir den Euro? UNTER DEN LINDEN am 22.04.2013
(youtube.com , video (c) by Phoenix-TV, 44 minutes,Apr 22nd 2013)
(published 4/23/13, 5/6/13: 6625 views )
Frauke Petry bei Peter Hahne - Euro oder D-Mark - Brauchen wir die AfD? 

(Discussion with Volker Wissing (FDP - Liberals), Frauke Petry (AfD) and Peter Hahne (ZDF-TV)
(youtube, video, (c) by ZDF TV, Apr 21st 2013)
Hart aber fair "Den Euro einfach abwählen - entscheidet die D-Mark-Partei die Wahl?" (ARD-TV)
(Discussion: C Lindner (FDP), K Göring-Eckard (Greens), W Bosbach (CDU), B Lucke (AfD), M Friedman (lawyer)) 
(youtube, video, (c) by ARD, May 7th 2013) 
Interview mit Bernd Lucke AfD - Alternative für Deutschland (Phoenix-TV)
(Interview, Youtube, video, 35 minutes, (c) by Phoenix-TV, May 18th 2013)
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Hans-Olaf Henkel (Wiki) #
Bernd Lucke (Wiki) #


Hans-Olaf Henkel article(s) in The Guardian
Europe’s Procrustean Nightmare (H-O Henkel, Project Syndicate, Apr 5th 2013)

Bernd Lucke interview: 'Why Germany has had enough of the euro' (Telegraph, Apr 7th 2013)
Bernd Lucke article(s) - Voxeu.org



please note: since this party is officially starting today and already opinion polls suggest a large potential  for getting votes so far 'reserved' for other parties, there will be some more updates until German election day (September 22nd 2013) 
Meanwhile those who are interested can follow those two Twitter handles for constant updates of their party ("Alternative für Deutschland", #AfD) (presumably in German)




# = German language

note2: Since this blog entry describes a newly established political party, it's perhaps necessary to reiterate  that the author of this article isn't affiliated with any party. His own opinion is exclusively expressed in the opinion section of this blog !  => German elections 1: new anti-Euro party - Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD)



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