USR president, Dominic Fritz, asked the leader of the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, to apologize for the statements according to which more and more migrants from Romania abuse the German social system.
The USR leader sent him a message in German, published on Instagram, in which he criticized Weidel’s statements and said that he “shamelessly” offends the sixth largest nation in the EU.
“Dear Alice Weidel, you wrote last week that migrants from Romania are robbing the German social system. And you promise, with AfD, a radical change in migration policy. I guess that means you want to send Romanians home. I am German, I emigrated to Romania 7 years ago, so I am, so to speak, a Romanian with a migrant background, and the people of Timisoara elected me twice as their mayor. Now I am, just like you, the president of a large opposition party, so I know something about Germany, about Romania and about how politics is done like the rest of the world”, said Dominic Fritz, according to a USR press release.
He emphasized that hundreds of thousands of Romanians work “absolutely normally” in Germany and contribute to the social insurance system by paying taxes and contributions.
“Thousands of Romanian doctors work hard in German clinics, and who do you think paid for their training? Exactly, the Romanian taxpayer. And when your constituents, Mrs. Weidel, need care, the chances are quite high that a woman from Romania will take care of them. And the children of this woman often stay in Romania, with their grandparents, who do unpaid care work, so that your parents’ carer is available 24 hours a day 24. Who is exploiting whom here, dear Mrs. Weidel?”, added the USR leader, according to Agerpres.
Referring to Alice Weidel’s statement regarding the 20-fold increase in social spending in the city of Magdeburg, up to three million euros annually, Dominic Fritz argued that the increase must be linked to the fact that the number of Romanians has also increased 20 times in the last ten years in this city, and the vast majority of them work.
“Are there abuses? Of course, as there are abuses in all social systems, and we can always discuss loopholes in the law that need to be closed. But what you want, dear Ms. Weidel from the AfD, is to take advantage of the advantages that free movement in the EU brings to Germany, without paying a solidarity price for it. And that, dear Ms. Weidel, is the definition of parasitism,” he adds.
Dominic Fritz reproached the AfD leader for offending Romanians and for resorting to a speech intended to arouse hostility towards migrants, asking him to apologize.
“Any Romanian who works 10-hour shifts in a German slaughterhouse, so that you can eat a cheap schnitzel on Sunday, has more decency than you. And if we still got here: two weeks ago you repeated Putin’s false narrative, that in Romania there are missiles with nuclear capability on the border, directed towards Russia. The truth is that here is a defensive shield, with which Romania defends the eastern flank of NATO. And so we, whom you accuse us of “Robbery, we’re protecting your ass. With pleasure! Today is a good day to apologize, Mrs. Weidel,” said Dominic Fritz.
At the same time, Fritz also criticized the AUR party, reproaching it for not reacting to the AfD leader’s statements.
“These are your patriot friends from Germany, whom you admire and kiss in the ass. They offend the Romanians in the diaspora, you keep quiet. I will not keep quiet, because my love for Romania and Europe is real”, says Dominic Fritz.
