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Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), said in an interview on 11 September 2026 that an AfD-led government would end all German payments and support connected with the war in Ukraine.
She said Germany had put more than 70 billion euros into Ukraine and that her party would demand the money back, along with the repair of the Nord Stream pipeline.
The AfD also wants Burgergeld withdrawn from more than a million Ukrainians in Germany, sanctions on Russia lifted and cheap Russian energy imports restored.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz told the Bundestag that Germany would continue its military and financial support; the 2026 federal budget provides about 11.5 billion euros in military aid to Kyiv.
The demand follows the AfD's landslide in the Saxony-Anhalt state election of 6 September 2026, where it won 43.8 per cent of the vote and 39 of 83 seats.
The directly elected lower house of the German federal legislature; it passes the federal budget, including aid to Ukraine, and elects the Chancellor
The federal council representing Germany's 16 states in federal legislation - the second chamber, distinct from the Bundestag
Right-wing party founded in 2013, now the leading opposition force in the Bundestag; co-led by Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla
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The directly elected lower house of the German federal parliament, which approves the budget and elects the Chancellor.
Germany's basic income support for jobseekers and low-income residents, which replaced the earlier Hartz IV system.
Natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea linking Russia directly to Germany, damaged by explosions in 2022.