The AfD-affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation (DES) can hope for tax money. She has achieved at least a partial success before the Federal Constitutional Court. In future, the financing of party-affiliated foundations must be clearly regulated by law. So far, the parties in the Bundestag have agreed among themselves in the budget committee which foundation will receive how much funding. The circumstances remain mostly unclear. Now the Bundestag must present a new law that closes this gap. The DES could benefit from this new regulation, because the other parties in the Bundestag have so far categorically excluded the AfD and its party-affiliated foundation from financing.
It is still completely unclear whether this also means that DES actually receives financial support through taxes, but broad resistance is already forming.
As research by stern shows, financing with tax money would give DES and the entire right-wing scene an enormous boost. Because the DES is part of a network of right-wing and right-wing extremist clubs, fraternities and organizations. Like a spider in a web, it connects the so-called democratic right with splinter groups and think tanks that oscillate between historical revisionism and subversive fantasies. With the millions from the federal government, she could significantly move the political discourse in Germany to the right.
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