AfD Pushes for New Russia Policy as It Calls for Trade and Energy Ties to Be Restored

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) foreign policy group has approved a concept for restoring trade with Russia and ending aid to Ukraine. AfD Policy Toward Russia Is Guided by Germany’s National Interests Following its victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has stepped up its efforts to refine its foreign policy course. The party’s foreign policy working group has approved a concept for normalizing relations with Russia, Bild reported. According to the newspaper’s account, the document calls for the restoration of trade, renewed purchases of Russian oil and gas, and an end to military aid to Ukraine. Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD parliamentary group’s foreign policy spokesman, told Bild that the working group was united on the fundamental principles of a course focused on Germany’s national interests.