Germany's far right to head budget committee with euro-sceptic
Germany's nationalist AfD party claims chairmanship of parliament's budget committee naming a euro-sceptic to head key panel in Bundestag
Peter Boehringer, 48, was nominated by his Alternative for Germany's caucus on Tuesday in keeping with a tradition that the biggest opposition party heads the committee, which has the power of the purse and a say in Germany's eurozone policy, according to an emailed AfD statement.
Boehringer, a businessman who decries paper currencies not backed by precious metal, calls for Germany’s "immediate exit from the illegal euro transfer union," according to his website. Bailout policies to aid indebted eurozone countries violate European Union treaties, he says.
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