Conservatives Urge Merkel to Fend Off Euroskeptic Threat
Details of the strategy paper by members of Merkel’s Christian Democrat (CDU) were revealed Sunday by the news magazine Spiegel.
The writers of the strategy paper called on the party leadership to take the threat posed by the euroskeptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) more seriously.
Founded this February, AfD has called for an “orderly dissolution” of the eurozone and a return to the Deutschmark.
On Sunday, Alternative for Germany became the country’s newest political party. DW spoke with Konrad Adam, one of the founders of the new group, about the party’s euroskeptic views. (16.04.2013)
The paper by the CDU’s party leaders in the state parliaments of Hessen, Saxony and Thuringia - Christean Wagner, Steffen Flath und Mike Mohring respectively - warned that the AfD threatened to split the conservative vote in Germany’s upcoming general election in September. This, would benefit the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, they said.
Wagner, Flath and Mohring called upon the CDU leadership to take the threat posed by the AfD seriously, and to reassert its conservative credentials among voters disillusioned with the eurozone.
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