“Wrong policy” – Wallentin: “EU has forgotten its own citizens”

By announcing that the EU has ‘forgotten’ its own citizens, Wallentin is referring to actors such as EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who lately only appears in blue-yellow solidarity outfits when she calls on Member States to save electricity and share the same time to re-supply arms calls for Ukraine.

‘Hurray sanctions hurt us enormously’
In his new book “Here and Now – How We Still Save Our Country” lawyer and Hofburg candidate Tassilo Wallentin (48) is taking them to court: “We are facing the biggest crisis since World War II with the weakest political personnel” . Sanctions have been issued against Russia, which do not end or shorten the war, but cause us enormous damage. We are impoverished, our industry is about to collapse. Instead of solving future problems, we are now tackling the issue like a third world country of whether we have enough electricity in the winter, whether we can heat or take a hot shower.”

“With its sanctions and arms transfers, the EU has forgotten its responsibility towards its own citizens. Austrian politicians have carelessly sacrificed our neutrality and gambled our traditional role as mediator. They have embarrassed us, shadowed us and put us in danger.” And he continues: “We are ruled by infantile politicians. Emotions, such as blue and yellow ties, are more important to them than the threat of a world war and a gas stop. There is naive wishful thinking instead of realpolitik. Where is the peace policy?”

Direct Democracy: When Citizens Quit Politics
Wallentin demands strict adherence to neutrality and a referendum on sanctions – in the spirit of direct democracy he has repeatedly called for in his columns, to which he devotes an entire chapter in the programmed bestseller: “We must vote like little children on vignette colors, but not about matters that have an existential impact on our lives?” Summary: “In a direct democracy it doesn’t matter whether the government is Red, Black, Pink or Green. The political plans can always fail because of the objections of the people. Our country would be better off if we could vote on sanctions, secure borders, asylum policies, higher sentences for rapists, our participation in the EU intervention force or the tax burden.”

According to Wallentin, one of the biggest problems right now is the enormous inflation: “Austrians’ incomes can hardly keep up with inflation. Many are having a hard time. The euro has become a redistributive machine that funnels our hard-earned wealth to crisis countries, banks and speculators. The ECB recently increased the money supply sixfold! Austria must switch to an EU veto policy and stop the ECB.” The waste of taxpayers’ money is also a perennial problem for us: “Austria has 27% higher administrative burden per capita than Germany. The financing system, which among other things serves the self-aggrandizement of politicians, devours about 18 billion euros a year – for example to finance scrambled egg festivals, vagina museums and conferences such as ‘The West-Eastern Delirium – Songs on the Wine’. No wonder that wealth building is hardly possible with us anymore.”

Crises “Consequences of wrong policies”
He also devotes a separate chapter to the “asylum chaos”: “Austria has the second highest number of asylum seekers per capita in the EU. Our generous benefits act like a magnet. In Africa alone, up to 790 million people want to emigrate. The 70,000 asylum seekers in Austria predicted for this year will cost the state 1.25 billion euros per year! Not counting the nearly 90,000 Ukrainians this year. Anyone who somehow comes to Austria just needs to apply for asylum, get full basic care including subsidies, health insurance without deductible and also a climate bonus of 500 euros, stating that an asylum application cannot be accepted if the person entered the country from a safe third country. “This would be in line with fundamental rights,” Wallentin said.

In all these crises, why did he choose the phrase from the national anthem “Brave into the new times” as his election slogan? “Because these are not natural disasters that are hitting us. It is the result of bad politics. But that could change if we act now. Here and now.”