Alice Weidel, the long-shot chancellor candidate from the far-right Alternative for Germany, slammed the European Union for destroying the country¡¯s auto industry and proposed winding back the bloc to a free-trade zone.
¡°What we need to have is free trade among the European countries, but we don¡¯t need all the bureaucracy,¡± co-leader of the second-strongest party in German polls said in Berlin. The EU¡¯s ¡°socialist policy making¡± has ¡°destroyed the market mechanism in Europe.¡±
As an example, Weidel ¡ª the AfD¡¯s first-ever candidate for chancellor ¡ª cited Germany¡¯s automotive sector, which she said had been ¡°ripped off¡± by an EU ban on the sale of new combustion-engine vehicles by 2035.
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