With attacks against right-wing populists, but also against the coalition partner, the SPD tip swears the party on the European election campaign. Party leader Andrea Nahles warned in the party Convention on Saturday before the rise of the “Ravagers, and the eternal yesterday”. The cohesion in Europe will, however, also at risk of “Balmy” as CDU Boss Annegret Kramp-karrenbauer. The SPD’s top candidate for the European elections, Katarina Barley, stressed that the vote was a “decision”.
Nahles recalled in her address to the approximately 200 delegates and officials in Berlin to the European growing together in the past few decades. Now there are people “who want to turn the wheel back” to national statehood. But “we are the broken talk” from the right-wing populists, said Nahles. In particular, they mentioned the AfD-Chairman Alexander Gauland, the Italian Minister of the interior Matteo Salvini and the Hungarian head of government Viktor Orban. “Hetzer and eternally yesterday’s” would not come through – “our values are stronger,” cried Nahles, to the applause of those present.
will not, However, endangers the cohesion of Europe is only of right-wing populists but also of the “Balmy”. In order for those to be considered “the Europe mainly due to the domestic political glasses”, for example, the CDU-Chairman Kramp-Karrenbauer. “We don’t need the Warm”, but “Europeans with heart’s blood,” said Nahles. Among the Latter, the SPD top candidate for the European election, German Federal Minister of justice Barley and Udo Bullmann.
Final advice on the European elections programme
Barley said, your perception that the people are “totally ready” for the European elections. The citizens to be aware of the fact that it is a “direction decision”. One reason for this is the Brexit. This showed what happens “when nationalists on the glue” and a “national cul-de-SAC” be issued.
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to order, Many citizens asked, however, what have I to do Europe with them. “Our answer is the social Europe,” said Barley. Also, she attacked Kramp-Karrenbauer: The CDU leader says “no to a Europe of the citizens” and seeks instead a “Europe of the banks”. “Our Europe is different”, stressed Barley and referred to the choice program, a draft of the SPD, which provides for, among other things, Europe-wide rules for minimum wages and for business taxation.
The final discussion on the European elections programme is in the centre of the party Convention in Berlin. The first to be voted in by the majority of the participants in calls for a complement, go to a Europe-wide financial transaction tax, tougher action on tax avoidance and stricter regulations against digital companies such as Google and Facebook.
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