Otto Wiesheu: The AfD is a risk to Germany's prosperity - millions of jobs are at risk. The party is calling for a reform of the European Union according to its ideas, without explaining this in more detail.

According to its basic program, the AfD does not want a common European defense or the withdrawal of nuclear weapons stored in Germany. A Germany outside NATO, a severely compromised alliance - these are exactly ideas that only Russia and perhaps China can be happy about.