New German anti-Euro party founded

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http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130317-48583.html

They are encouraged by a recent survey in Focus magazine showing that 26 percent of Germans would consider voting for an anti-euro party. This figure rises to 40 percent among those aged between 40 and 49.
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The party "is campaigning on a purely economic topic but for the moment Germans are satisfied with the situation in the country and that compensates for their dissatisfaction vis-a-vis the euro," said Franzmann.

Moreover, the way the polls are looking in Germany, a vote for this party might risk opening the door to a more leftist coalition, noted Franzmann, something supporters would want to avoid "at all costs." "That's why they will in any case vote for the CDU or the FDP."

According to the latest polls, the CDU would win 40 percent of the vote if elections were held now but the FDP would scrape only five percent, meaning a grand coalition between the CDU and the SPD is still a possible outcome.

I am not supporting this party, for the reason that it's logic contradicts itself. It is true that they want to have Southern countries leaving the Euro, and/or nothern countries leaving and reintroducing national currencies or a new shared currency in Germany, Finland, Austria (not France). They also know that the latter is poltically impossible since no poltiians will dare to demand to leave the French out.

However, this party also wnats growing EU sovereignity over national states, and a growing transfer from soveriengity from states to Brussel. In my thinking, growing centralism is the problem, not the cure. I f you read my thread on Hoppe, you cna imagine the problems I have with this party. This new party also has no recipe against the problem of high debts and the dominance of FIAT paper money. That is why in the end they will not acchioeve much, and will not be an alternative that could set us on a different trtack, away from the fall we are heading for. In other words: i see them as a cosmetic event only.

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On a side noite, it is interesting how the state media reacted to it. In Germany, we have two state broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, for which people now must pay fees even if they do not own any receivers, the fees are now independent from consumer usage, and get collected not on the basis of receivers, and consuming behavior, but pert household, no matter what.

Both stations are of ever declining quality, and their own TV productions not match the bad quality of private TV stations over here, while their political information service is more that of a propaganda distribution platform, like the Aktuelle Kamera was in the former GDR. The new style is jopurnalism is unvcritically and openly in support of polltical parties who do not send VIPs to the prograqms if they get quesitoned too aggressively, both sides instead have arranged themselves with: don't bite but lick my hand, then I help you to fill your talkshows with our well-known faces, say the parties; give us dates for "interviews", and we promise not to ask indepth questions and will give you the codewords you need to play your usual slogans and paroles, say the Tv stations.

ARD mentioned the new party in a message online. And interestingly tried the same trick that is used to gag Islam critics: the news message said that the new party is "extreme rightwing populstic". Wel, it is anything but that for sure. And readers did not bite that bait, too, but started in the comments section a discussion on the propaganda stunt done by ARD. When the presentation of argments in favour of this party started to get into a real swing, ARD simply shut down the forum, saying that there was nothing more left to say and therefore the discussion could be ended.

Quality journalism made by German state TV. And we even must pay fees for this instrument of political party's propaganda platform! And an example that by far is no exception from the rule. 20 years ago or so, both stations were good. Today, they are lousy, and simply propaganda announcement platforms, really.