Courtesy of Mish.
About a week ago I started exchanging emails with reader Bernd who lives in Germany. He claims that the anti-euro movement in Germany is far bigger than mainstream media lets on.
The question is who to believe, and I cast my lot with Bernd.
I have been down this path twice before, the first with reader “AC” who is from Italy and called the rise of Beppe Grillo a year before mainstream media ever mentioned the guy, let alone treated him seriously.
The second setup regards reader “Bran” who lives in Spain. Bran sends me most the Spanish links that I translate.
Currently I am 2-for-2 on who to believe.
Nonetheless, let’s first consider the other side of the story as presented in Tuesday’s Eurointelligence report offering the following comments on a recent German poll that shows 26% of Germans would back anti euro-party.
We want to caution readers not to translate the survey result by TNS-Emnid, according to which 26% of Germans would consider backing an anti-euro party, with the likely results to be achieved by the party that established itself this week – the “Alternative für Deutschland“, run by a group German professors and journalists. The TNS-Emnid polls also shows that the support for an anti-euro party among 40-49 year old is around 40%.
Reuters quotes Emnid chief Klaus-Peter Schoeppner saying an anti-euro party would only gain about 2 or 3% – as most of the anti-Europeans see themselves well catered for by the CDU and the FDP.
That’s our view as well. You already have plenty of true Eurosceptic parties in Germany. So why bother?
Why Bother? Really?
Eurointelligence thinks the “Alternative für Deutschland“ AfD party will only get 3% of the vote because there are plenty of “true Eurosceptic parties in Germany”.
Really?
Let’s tune in to reader Bernd who writes …….
