AfD: Kosovo has no place in the Council of Europe, it is a failed state

The latest escalation of violence in Kosovo had shown that Kosovo had no place in the Council of Europe, said Petr Bystron, spokesman for foreign affairs of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag.

"This region remains a powder keg, whose acceptance in the Council of Europe and the EU would only introduce problems into our institutions, which would destabilize them," he explained.

In a statement, Bystron asked the German government to immediately stop its activities regarding the admission of Kosovo to the Council of Europe.

"The Kosovo project has failed - 24 years of comprehensive care of Kosovo by NATO, EU, UN, and German development aid have left a deeply corrupt, criminal, and unsustainable structure that is politically and ethnically fragmented. The continuous participation of the German army in the KFOR mission is no longer justified, at least since the riots of March 2004, which were directed against the Serbian minority. The AfD parliamentary group demands that this mission finally end and that German soldiers withdraw from Kosovo," Markus Frohnmaier, responsible for development aid, said.

He added that Kosovo, which had been forcibly separated from FRY by military means, was important for the US because they had their military base there, which was an important outpost for the geostrategic expansion of America's sphere of influence in Southeast Europe.

"This topic should be discussed in the Bundestag," Frohnmaier said.