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Robert Habeck, Federal Economics and Climate Minister (Gruene), casually talks on the phone leaning against the wall shortly before the meeting of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag in Berlin © IMAGO/ Political-Moments
The AfD is extremely dangerous for Germany as a business location.
Habeck agrees with experts.
But the Green is also self-critical.
Berlin – After the report about a meeting between right-wing radicals and AfD and CDU politicians, an outcry is sweeping through Germany.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in demonstrations against the right.
This has now led to percentage losses for the AfD in current surveys on voting behavior.
And Germany's leading economic experts also expressed themselves unusually clearly.
The AfD’s “fantasies” are “extremely dangerous” for the German economy.
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck is now taking the same approach.
The Green Party described the AfD as “poison” for Germany as a business location.
At the same time, in an interview with “Welt TV”, he admitted that his government shared responsibility for the strengthening of the right-wing party.
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Then the location is dead,” the Green politician continued.
“So: The AfD is poison for Germany as a business location.
But perhaps that is only my second concern;
it is poison for the social climate.”
At the same time, the Vice Chancellor was self-critical.
The principle of right-wing populism and right-wing radicalism is to always want to demonstrate “that a democratic society is not able to solve the big problems and then say: Then it has to go.” He has to self-critically admit: “The Government has argued too much, it has taken too long, and the solutions we have found have not lasted long enough in the past.
This is certainly part of the dissatisfaction that has spread in the country.
And I’m part of the government.”
Habeck also self-critical because of the AfD: “Certainly also a share”
Habeck expressed reservations about calls to exclude the AfD, as well as the NPD successor organization, from state party financing.
This is a question that the courts have to clarify based on the evidence that the services determine.
There are high hurdles in Germany to banning parties or cutting them off from financial flows.
The open society also gives its enemies plenty of space.
This also applies to the AfD.
Nevertheless, one must stand by the principles of an open society.
(rist/Reuters)