Economic researchers on the AfD program: Dexit would threaten 2.2 million jobs. The AfD likes to present itself as a business party, but according to IW researcher Bergmann, its program primarily serves top earners.

If Germany were to leave the EU and the Eurozone, it could lose around ten percent of its economic output. This meant a loss of prosperity of 400 to 500 billion euros annually, as a study on the actual consequences of Brexit shows. Germany as an export country would be hit hard - and so would its citizens.