Editing Euroscepticism (section)

===Germany===
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[[File:Volksabstimmung über die Eurorettung.JPG|thumb|upright|"[[Referendum]] on saving the [[euro]]!" Poster from the party Alternative for Germany (AfD) regarding Germany's financial contributions during the [[Eurozone crisis]]]]
The [[Alternative for Germany]] (AfD) is Germany's largest Eurosceptic party.<ref name="Parties-and-Elections">{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/germany.html|title= Parties and Election in Europe|date=2014}}</ref> It was elected into the [[Bundestag|German Parliament]] with 94 seats in September 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wahl.tagesschau.de/wahlen/2017-09-24-BT-DE/index.shtml |title=Bundestagswahl 2017 |publisher=Wahl.tagesschau.de |access-date=15 July 2019 |archive-date=9 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709192014/https://wahl.tagesschau.de/wahlen/2017-09-24-BT-DE/index.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Initially the AfD was a soft Eurosceptic party, that considered itself pro-Europe and pro-EU, but opposed the euro, which it believed had undermined European integration, and called for reforms to the [[Eurozone]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Carla Bleiker|url=http://www.dw.com/en/german-party-says-no-to-the-euro-yes-to-the-eu/a-16660602|title=German party says 'no' to the euro, 'yes' to the EU|work=DW Online|date=11 March 2013|access-date=9 March 2016}}</ref>

In the [[2014 European Parliament election in Germany|European Parliament election, 2014]], the Alternative for Germany came 5th with 7% of the vote, winning 7 seats and is a member of the Eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists Group. The Alternative for Germany went on to take seats in three state legislatures in the Autumn of 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29203423 |title=German anti-euro AfD party wins seats in east |work=BBC News |date=15 September 2014 |access-date=28 January 2015}}</ref>

The party became purely Eurosceptic in 2015, when an internal split occurred, leading to [[Frauke Petry]]'s leadership and a more hard-line approach to the European Union, including its calling for an end for German [[Eurozone]] membership, withdrawal from EU common asylum policies and significantly reducing the power of the EU with some AfD members supporting a complete exit from the EU altogether.<ref>{{cite news|title=AfD chief Lucke denies plans to split the party|url=http://www.dw.de/afd-chief-lucke-denies-plans-to-split-the-party/a-18460878|access-date=27 May 2015|publisher=Deutsche Welle|date=19 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Reinforcing or moderating? The impact of Brexit on Italian and German Euroscepticism
|journal=Frontiers in Political Science|date=24 January 2024|doi=10.3389/fpos.2024.1063039 |doi-access=free |last1=Orlando |first1=Vittorio |last2=Conrad |first2=Maximilian |volume=6 }}</ref>

In July 2015 an AfD splinter group created a new soft Eurosceptic party called [[Alliance for Progress and Renewal]].

In the [[2019 European Parliament election in Germany|European Parliament election, 2019]], the Alternative for Germany increased their vote share from 7% and 7 seats to 11% and 11 seats.

In the [[2021 German federal election|2021 German Federal Election]], AfD won 10.3% of the vote and 94 seats whereas in 2017, they received 12.6% of the vote and 83 seats; this meant they moved from third place to fifth place, falling behind the [[Alliance 90/The Greens|Green Party]] and [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]], both of which had been less popular than the AfD in 2017. Despite their overall electoral decline, the AfD still emerged as the largest in the states of [[Saxony]] and [[Thuringia]], and saw a strong performance in [[eastern Germany]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Results Germany - The Federal Returning Officer |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2021/ergebnisse/bund-99.html |access-date=8 June 2022 |website=www.bundeswahlleiter.de}}</ref>