Reforming the EU, not ‘Dexit’

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The Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) plan is to reform the European Union (EU), not to leave it in some kind of “Dexit,” member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the AfD Tomasz Froelich says.   #AfD #Germany

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00:00AFD has stated in its draft election manifesto that it wants to leave the EU and also the

00:07Euro. Is this something the party will enact if you become the government? And is this

00:14really popular within Germany?

00:16First of all, we want... This is just a draft and we will hold our party congress this weekend

00:27and then we will decide on the problem of the upcoming election. So this is not set

00:32in stone. We will see the result and we don't want to leave the European Union. We want

00:39to reform the European Union because for the moment it's something that doesn't work. We

00:45have to be honest, it doesn't work. So we want to reform the European Union. But as

00:52I said, this is not set in stone since it is just a draft. We will decide on our problem

00:58this weekend when we will have our party convention in Riesa in Eastern Germany and for the moment

01:06it's just... We can just speculate on our party problem. We will see. I don't think

01:10that we will vote for a dexit and I don't think that we will vote for leaving the Euro

01:17in general.

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