"Was haben Sie alle aus unserem Land gemacht?" - Alice Weidel - Bundestag

Overview

Alice Weidel (AfD) delivers a Bundestag speech arguing that the current federal government has failed across economics, migration, energy/climate policy, and foreign policy. She frames the government’s statement as a “swan song” for a “failed government” and contrasts it with her party’s call for immediate course changes.

Economic decline and deindustrialization

• She claims the German job market is deteriorating sharply, citing a large year-over-year loss of jobs and a high rate of company bankruptcies.
• She argues industrial orders are falling more than expected and that the “industrial core” is shrinking (“melting away”).
• She attributes the decline to high taxes and energy costs, bureaucracy, and what she describes as planned-economy policies, alongside an ever-growing state apparatus.
• She says industry is leaving Germany (“exodus abroad”) along with jobs, and claims record emigration of Germans—especially young, well-educated people.

Migration, crime, and asylum/citizenship policy

• Weidel argues mass immigration continues “unabated,” especially via asylum claims and family reunification, portraying numbers of illegal entrants as extremely large.
• She claims deportations are especially poor compared to other governments.
• She criticizes granting German citizenship to migrants as a “dumping” of the German passport, arguing this worsens social and security problems.
• She alleges increased violent, sexual, and brutal crimes, citing Nuremberg as an example where she claims “migrant gangs” use drugs to control underage girls for sexual abuse.
• She says many Germans feel demeaned, referencing remarks by SPD figures (including SPD/“Social Minister” Berbel Bas) that she portrays as referring to Germans as a “unified brown.”
• She argues that German taxpayers face higher pension contributions, longer working lives, reduced benefits, and greater out-of-pocket costs for care—while the state supports large numbers of migrants long-term.

Spending priorities: migration, development aid, energy transition, Ukraine

• She criticizes large annual spending on migration costs, development aid, and “energy transition and climate protection mania.”
• She claims the energy transition has already cost 500 billion euros and could cost multiple trillions more, describing it as deliberate destruction of Germany’s energy infrastructure.
• She argues Germany is spending billions on Ukraine in a way that prolongs a war that should have ended, and claims Kyiv has never been held accountable for actions like the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline.
• She frames policy as deliberately provoking confrontation with Russia despite Russia being a nuclear power, and says the government only talks about war rather than peace.

Foreign policy red line: EU/NATO for Ukraine

• She insists that Ukraine must never become a member of the EU and NATO, presenting this as a non-negotiable conclusion of her argument for peace.

Calls for policy reversal (energy, climate, nuclear, migration law)

• She calls for declaring the “climate crisis and energy transition” over, claiming even the IPCC has retracted its worst scenarios (as stated in the subtitles).
• She argues for eliminating the CO2 tax, lowering energy taxes, and returning to nuclear power.
• She demands abolishing bans on combustion engines and on heating system regulations (as she describes them).
• She calls for a market economy with affordable energy rather than prohibitions.
• On migration, she calls for reforming citizenship law to raise hurdles for naturalization, shutting off what she calls “migration magnets,” turning away illegal migrants without exception, and repatriating criminals and illegal entrants.

Political strategy against the SPD/A coalition

• She blames the government’s direction on an “anti-German” SPD influence and criticizes SPD leadership (including Vice Chancellor/Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil as described in the subtitles).
• She proposes two options for “Mr. Merz” (CDU leader):
  1. Break the left-wing coalition with the SPD and form new majorities.
  2. Continue waiting and doing nothing until citizens force new elections—first in the states and then federally—for an AfD “reform government.”
• She concludes by asserting AfD is ready to take responsibility, arguing Germany deserves better governance.

Presenters / contributors

• Alice Weidel (main speaker; AfD)