{"id":77901,"date":"2026-08-24T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/77901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:15:09","slug":"afd-co-leader-calls-for-germany-to-leave-euro-schengen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/77901\/","title":{"rendered":"AfD Co-Leader Calls for Germany to Leave Euro, Schengen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1301094\/afd-co-leader-calls-for-germany-to-leave-euro-schengen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/n01301094-b.jpg\" alt=\"AfD Co-Leader Calls for Germany to Leave Euro, Schengen\" title=\"AfD Co-Leader Calls for Germany to Leave Euro, Schengen\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel said her party would seek Germany&#8217;s withdrawal from the euro and the Schengen Area, close national borders, and impose tougher migration policies if it enters the federal government.Speaking in ZDF&#8217;s summer interview, Weidel said &#8220;Germany was significantly better off before the introduction of the euro,&#8221; arguing that the currency had weakened Germany&#8217;s economy and reduced household wealth, Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>On migration, she said: &#8220;We will close them, and we will leave Schengen,&#8221; referring to Germany&#8217;s borders. She also called for more deportations and fewer naturalizations, including the return of Syrians whose protection status had ended.<\/p>\n<p>Weidel criticized Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil&#8217;s Social Democratic Party (SPD) while condemning the CDU&#8217;s refusal to cooperate with the AfD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will govern in the first federal states,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And we will also govern at the federal level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AfD is polling above 40% in Saxony-Anhalt ahead of Sept. 6 state elections and at 27% nationally, according to the research institute Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, compared with 22% for the CDU.<\/p>\n<p>Weidel also reaffirmed the AfD&#8217;s opposition to a planned combustion-engine ban and rejected measures targeting human-caused climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel said her party would seek Germany&#8217;s withdrawal from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,57155,5035,193,23587,1747,44544,4504,57153,57160,7865,9794,1696,187,5,1235,2031,57159,4413,2353,5768,35766,6188,690,342,4427,57158,5513,5583,57154,57156,1642,2354,2023,57157,44908,2366,2371],"class_list":["post-77901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-afd","tag-alice","tag-alternative","tag-and","tag-area","tag-borders","tag-calls","tag-close","tag-co","tag-enters","tag-euro","tag-federal","tag-for","tag-from","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-her","tag-if","tag-impose","tag-islam","tag-it","tag-leader","tag-leave","tag-migration","tag-national","tag-party","tag-policies","tag-s","tag-said","tag-schengen","tag-seek","tag-the","tag-times","tag-to","tag-tougher","tag-weidel","tag-withdrawal","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}