One of the party‘s founders, economics professor Bernd Lucke, told the BBC he wanted to see a „gradual dismantling of the euro as a common currency“.

„We think that Europe has big problem coping with the euro as a common currency, since there are member countries of the eurozone which have big competitiveness problems, and which actually need a devaluation and can‘t have it,“ he said, citing Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal and France as examples.