AfD youth wing distances itself from party's call to leave the Euro

Germany's AfD party is facing internal divergence on key European policies, as its youth wing, Generation Deutschland, publicly distances itself from the federal leadership's call to abandon the Euro.

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We do not want a German Euro exit, but to fix the existing structural flaws of the Euro system.

Jean-Pascal Hohm, the leader of Generation Deutschland, stated that his organization does not support leaving the Euro. Instead, he expressed a desire to "fix the existing structural flaws of the Euro system" without abandoning Europe's economic unity. This position contrasts sharply with that of AfD party leader Alice Weidel, who recently argued in a ZDF interview that Germany was "significantly better off" before the introduction of the single currency and called the Euro an "unstable currency."

Further complicating the party's messaging, Hohm also rejected Weidel's call for Germany to close its borders and withdraw from the Schengen Agreement. Weidel had justified this stance by claiming open borders endanger internal security. Hohm, however, asserted that Generation Deutschland wants "Germany to remain part of the Schengen area."

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We want Germany to remain part of the Schengen area.

The youth organization, recently founded after the dissolution of the Junge Alternative, is set to hold its second federal congress in Magdeburg. The event is expected to attract prominent AfD figures, including the party's lead candidate for the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund.

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Germany was significantly better off before the introduction of the common currency.