GROK’s summary of current AfD platform
1. Return to social-market-economy basics: SMEs, entrepreneurship, innovation; work must pay.
2. Asylum/migration U-turn: border controls, reject illegal entrants, remigration of people without a right to stay; process asylum claims outside Germany; leave the UN Migration and Refugee Compacts.
3. Fight crime: more/better-paid police, harder sentences, more investigations, asset forfeiture vs terrorism, extremism, clan and gang crime.
4. Peace in Europe via interest-based foreign policy: neutral Ukraine outside NATO and the EU; restore undisturbed trade with Russia.
5. Defend free speech; slim, “neutral” public broadcasting instead of the current fee-funded system.
6. Cheap, secure energy: return to nuclear, expand coal, abolish the CO₂ levy and renewable subsidies, cut energy taxes.
7. Family/demographics: childcare allowance to age 3, family income-splitting, relief on childcare costs, promote births.
8. EU: leave the centralized EU path; found a new European economic/interest community of sovereign states (common market, external-border protection, strategic autonomy, cultural identity). Exit the Green Deal, euro transfer union, digital euro, and EU bureaucracy as currently built.
9. Cut bureaucracy and taxes; abolish the solidarity surcharge (Soli).
10. Housing: scrap property-transfer tax for owner-occupiers; simplify building law; help tenants become owners.
11. Swiss-style national referenda plus a citizen initiative right.
12. Keep cash; reject a digital euro and central surveillance of payments.
13. Fix roads, bridges, rail; speed planning; catch up on digital infrastructure.
14. Raise the pension level step by step; more contributors; flexible retirement; incentives to work longer.
15. Health: less bureaucracy, better rural care, better pay for medical staff.
16. Rebuild the Bundeswehr; restore conscription including alternative civilian service.
17. Transport technology-neutrality: end EV preference; keep the combustion engine.
18. Replace Bürgergeld with an “activating basic income.”
19. Rural areas and farming: less EU red tape, regional circuits, animal welfare without over-regulation.
20. Keep the debt brake.
Economy, welfare, pensions, health
• Shrink state market intervention to a minimum.
• Work must leave people clearly better off than benefits.
• Do not fund a self-chosen life on the public purse.
• Extend coal-plant runtimes; restart nuclear; repair/restart Nord Stream; lift the ban on gas/oil heating.
• Abolish the CO₂ levy; cut energy and electricity taxes to the legal minimum; stop wind expansion that drives grid fees.
• Abolish the Supply Chain Act and the EU supply-chain directive.
• Abolish the Packaging Act; cut sustainability reporting; simplify GDPR and procurement law.
• Slash reporting duties for SMEs and farmers.
• Lift the combustion-engine ban and unreachable fleet CO₂ limits.
• Restore the 7% VAT rate for restaurants.
• End “economically harmful” sanctions; scrap the CO₂ border-adjustment mechanism.
• Cut income tax via a much higher basic allowance (flyer/campaign also cites €14,000).
• Cut corporate tax to an internationally competitive level.
• Abolish the solidarity surcharge for everyone.
• Extra tax-free allowance so pensioners keep working.
• Stop skilled-German emigration and try to lure emigrants back.
• Stop charging social-insurance funds for non-insurance tasks (finance those from the federal budget).
• Raise the pension level; use capital markets; create a “junior savings depot” for children.
• Stabilise pensions by more contributors (including via family/birth policy).
• Reform unemployment insurance toward contribution fairness.
• Future-proof health and long-term-care insurance; strengthen home care.
• Bürgergeld: replace with “activating basic security”; push work-capable recipients back into jobs; cut benefits if job offers/community work are refused.
• Keep hospitals viable; improve outpatient and rural care; secure drug supply.
• Review COVID policy; WHO: reform or leave.
• Organ donation, assisted suicide, cannabis: keep/restore tighter, non-ideological rules as stated in the chapter.
• No COVID-style vaccine mandate.
• Keep Heilpraktiker.
• Resist state patient-data/telematics overreach.
• Foreign medical staff only if they meet German standards.
• Cut health bureaucracy.
Housing, infrastructure, energy, transport, digital
• Become “a nation of owners.”
• Cut housing and construction side-costs; keep building law national.
• Protect existing buildings from retrofit mandates.
• Help tenants become owners (equity-substitute models, tax incentives).
• Prefer locals under an Einheimischenmodell.
• More housing benefit instead of social-housing construction.
• No rent brake / rent cap.
• Repair roads, rail, bridges; speed replacement builds (drop environmental review for like-for-like replacements).
• Roll building/planning law for big energy plants back to pre-2021 rules.
• Stop large-scale wind and field/forest solar; no agro-PV on farmland.
• Energy triad: security, cost, environment — not the Energiewende model.
• Renewables must compete without priority feed-in or new subsidies (existing contracts kept).
• Restart intact Nord Stream 2 string B; repair damaged strings; pursue saboteurs for damages.
• No lignite phase-out; expand coal in the short term; rebuild German nuclear know-how and restart existing plants.
• Hydrogen is not treated as competitive; no need for costly battery/H₂ systems to keep the lights on.
• No general Autobahn speed limit.
• Protect car use; reject diesel bans and blanket Tempo 30 on main roads; keep urban lanes and parking.
• Accompanied driving from age 16.
• Stop public funding of EV charging; treat e-fuels like EVs for tax if CO₂ rules stay.
• Shift heavy transit to rail/water; more truck parking; enforce cabotage rules; roll back the CO₂ truck toll hike.
• Reliable rail; strengthen aviation as an economic factor; protect German seaports.
• Right to an analogue life; no state social scoring.
• Oppose state “disinformation” crackdowns as censorship.
• Digital sovereignty; cautious AI policy; simplify GDPR.
Taxes, budget, currency
• Consolidate the federal budget; stop tax waste; keep the debt brake.
• Enforce Konnexität (who orders, pays).
• Cut grants to NGOs.
• Publish the true fiscal cost of asylum policy.
• Slash government PR funded by taxpayers.
• Radical tax simplification.
• Abolish all CO₂ levies.
• Relieve low-wage workers and the middle class.
• Abolish property tax (Grundsteuer) and offset the revenue loss.
• Introduce family income-splitting.
• No EU taxing power.
• Abolish wealth and inheritance tax.
• Raise the saver’s allowance.
• Exit the euro system; return to a national currency if the euro cannot be ended in an orderly way.
• Reform the money system; bring state gold home.
• End EU “planned-economy” policy.
• No EU borrowing; credit only at national level.
• No German liability for foreign banks.
• End TARGET2 risk (regular settlement).
• Cash as legal tender forever; no wealth register; no digital euro.
• Keep Bitcoin “state-distant.”
Agriculture, environment, climate
• Decide farm policy in Germany, not Brussels.
• Protect family farms and rural areas.
• Consumer information without lifestyle nannying.
• Pragmatic fertilizer, plant-protection, and GMO rules.
• Animal welfare without shutting farms.
• Reject the “climate catastrophe / Great Transformation / Great Reset” framing; leave the Paris Agreement.
• Environment protection instead of more wind/solar industrialisation.
• Hunt as nature conservation; regulate wolves (wolf-free zones, Nordic-style caps).
• Fight invasive species; keep commercial and hobby fishing viable.
• Manage forests; no more forest-clearing for turbines.
• Keep water supply public/municipal; no extra water-withdrawal taxes; no EU water-market liberalisation.
Foreign and defence policy
• Realpolitik in the German interest, not “values-based” foreign policy.
• Europe of fatherlands; reject a centralized EU foreign/defence service.
• No interference in other states’ internal affairs (Helsinki spirit).
• Foreign NGOs in Germany must disclose funding.
• No further EU/NATO eastward enlargement.
• Multipolar world; interest-based ties with the US, China, and Russia.
• Strategic European autonomy; stay in NATO and the OSCE until a capable European military arrangement exists.
• Neutral Ukraine outside NATO and the EU; restore trade with Russia; lift Russia sanctions / restart pipeline gas (as in the program’s peace/energy chapters).
• Stop sending Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine; stop the training burden that the program says hollowed out German forces.
• Restore conscription plus alternative service.
• Armed forces for German citizens only.
• Rebuild a German defence industry; add offensive cyber capability.
• Restore military tradition, Korpsgeist, and “German values” in the Bundeswehr.
• Rebuild civil defence and shelters.
Asylum and migration
• Label current policy “state failure”; answer is Remigration.
• Deport everyone with a final removal order; end Bürgergeld, remaining-right loopholes, and turbo-naturalisation as pull factors.
• Expand voluntary-return incentives.
• When the reason for flight ends (Syria is the worked example), start revocation procedures and talks with origin states.
• Priority removal of foreign Gefährder, extremists, and serious criminals.
• Easier expulsion for violent, drug, sex, organised, and clan crime.
• Treat imported conflicts, caliphate calls, and “Muslim antisemitism” as removal grounds.
• National control of immigration again; Germany should opt out of EU asylum policy (Danish-style).
• Federal police as a border force; turnbacks at the border; detention centres at the border.
• Leave the UN Migration and Refugee Compacts.
• Push reform of the Geneva Refugee Convention and the ECHR.
• Turn the individual constitutional asylum right into an institutional guarantee or ordinary statute; restrict it to people under immediate, concrete threat.
• Process asylum and subsidiary-protection claims outside Germany.
• Claims only with proven identity/nationality.
• No relocation quotas.
• End voluntary Afghan admission; investigate the “local staff” episode.
• Stop funding civilian Mediterranean “rescue”; disembark at the nearest port; Maghreb return deals.
• Lose asylum status for identity fraud or travel home.
• Expand safe-country lists; tighten visas.
• No family reunion as a default for subsidiary protection.
• Yearly review of protection grounds.
• Stop state funding of asylum-advice NGOs.
• No open labour-market access for applicants/rejected claimants except mandatory community work.
• Stay in central reception centres for the whole procedure.
• Benefits in kind or a payment card; cut support for people required to leave; no instant full welfare after recognition.
• Abolish remaining-right schemes, training/work Duldung, and Chancen-Aufenthalt.
• Replace Duldung with a departure-obligation certificate.
• Pressure origin states: aid cuts, visa leverage, sanctions.
• Punish NGO obstruction of removals.
• More detention near borders and airports.
• End church asylum / the BAMF-church deal.
• Integration only if the migrant can and will adapt and the host society can absorb them; language + acceptance of German law as conditions.
• Stop “giving away” citizenship; no automatic path from asylum to passport.
• Link migration to the housing shortage.
• Only limited, selected skilled immigration.
Internal security
• Tougher crime-fighting overall.
• Stricter juvenile criminal law.
• More police, better kit, nationwide pay.
• Faster courts and harsher execution of sentences.
• Revise firearms law (no further tightening in the 2017 sense; 2025 chapter is “overhaul,” still against using guns as the scapegoat).
• Treat Islamist terror as a central threat; criminalise calling for a caliphate.
• Break up no-go areas and parallel societies.
• “Oppose further spread of Islam.”
• Ban polygamy, forced marriage, child marriage.
• Restrict full-body/face covering.
• Equip the federal police for national border protection.
Democracy, parties, EU
• The people are the sovereign; secure civil rights.
• Supranational bodies must not hollow out German sovereignty.
• Swiss-style referenda on laws, constitutional change, and major treaties; citizen initiatives.
• No censorship of public debate; reject state pressure on social media.
• Restore a liberal legal order.
• Separation of powers; reform parliamentary law.
• Free list voting and a free mandate.
• End party self-service and Parteibuchwirtschaft.
• Term limits for professional politicians.
• Control lobbying.
• Depoliticise the judiciary.
• Fundamentally reform the domestic intelligence service (Verfassungsschutz).
• Protect whistleblowers.
• Replace the EU with a “League of European Nations”: common market, external borders, security autonomy, cultural identity.
Family and demography
• Strong families as the core of society.
• Raise the birth rate rather than use mass immigration as the demographic fix.
• “Welcome culture for children.”
• Two biological sexes as fact; reject gender ideology in law and schools.
• Responsible childcare; childcare allowance.
• Reduce harm from family breakup.
• Uniform, family-protective rules on taking children into care.
Education, science, technology
• Performance culture.
• Keep the tracked school system.
• Turn Schulpflicht into a duty to be educated (opens homeschooling space).
• Bring back preschool classes.
• Keep special-needs schools.
• Viewpoint diversity instead of one ideology.
• Sensible digitalisation, not gadget-first schooling.
• Stronger teacher disciplinary powers.
• Vocational training: “more Meister than Master.”
• Stop political Islam in schools.
• Bologna failed: bring back Diplom and Magister.
• University autonomy; freedom of research and teaching (including ending gender-studies steering).
• Technology-open industrial policy; nuclear engineering; raw-material and circular economy; cautious GMO; space.
Culture and media
• German Leitkultur instead of multiculturalism.
• Protect customs and a “balanced” culture of remembrance.
• Protect the German language (no gender language).
• Limit federal culture policy; culture is a Land competence.
• No VAT on musicians, artists, freelance teachers.
• Replace the broadcasting fee with a slim “Grundfunk.”
• Reform film subsidies.
https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AfD_Bundestagswahlprogramm2025_web.pdf