Gottschalk is one of the parliamentary leaders of the AfD, he has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017, among others. as spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group on financial policy. He is one of the co-founders of the party in 2013. Last year, together with a wider AfD delegation, he was in the USA, where he met with circles associated with Republicans and US President Donald Trump.
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This is another post by Gottschalk regarding Poland and Nord Stream. In October, when a Polish court refused to extradite Volodymyr Zhuravlov, suspected of blowing up the gas pipeline, to Germany, the AfD politician accused the Polish state of “being an accomplice of terrorists.” In response, he called for, among others: to withhold EU funds for Poland.
Reparations for Germany from Poland, the reason for Nord Stream. This is what the AfD politician demanded
“EUR 1.3 trillion should be enough as reparations for complicity in blowing up Nord Stream. My first official decision as Minister of Finance will be to pursue these claims from Poland” – Gottschalk posted such content on the X platform.
At the end of the post he added: “He who laughs last laughs best” and included the Polish flag and a blue heart (AfD color).
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AfD is rising in German polls. Questions remain about ties with Russia
The AfD, leading in some German support polls, is isolated by Germany's main parties at the federal and state levels. At the lower level, especially in the east of the country, this “firewall” (Brandmauer) principle is not strictly observed.
The AfD's relations with Russia remain a source of controversy on the German political scene. The group's politicians visit the Russian embassy in Berlin and travel to Russia. The attitude towards Moscow is also the subject of a dispute within the AfD itself. In recent months, the party leadership has been strongly focusing on relations with Trump's entourage. In December, a group of AfD politicians visited Washington and New York, where they met, among others, with congressmen and State Department officials.
