Alexander Sell, an Alternative for Germany (AfD) member of the European Parliament and a founder of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, has called on the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations to examine the European Green Party with the same tools now being used against ESN.
In a statement issued on September 27 he said EU values “cannot be enforced selectively.”
A citizens’ request lodged with the European Parliament, backed by Zivile Allianz e.V., asks MEPs to send the Greens to the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) for a check against Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union.
The accompanying dossier lists 41 documented cases, with public sources and screenshots, of alleged antisemitic rhetoric and conduct involving Green parties or politicians in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Sell’s argument is one of equal treatment. In July the Parliament voted by 414 to 224, with 18 abstentions, to ask the APPF whether ESN still meets the registration and funding conditions tied to the Union’s founding values.
That vote followed a letter from the authority itself, with a dossier of almost 300 pages citing court rulings, public statements and social media posts by members of ESN’s national parties.
Registration as a European party, and the public money that comes with it, depends on “respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights”.
A finding of a serious and persistent breach can lead to deregistration or a freeze on funding.
ESN received about €2 million from the EU budget in 2025 and a similar sum is allocated for 2026.
The party has called the procedure politically motivated.
In June its general assembly adopted a Berlin Declaration restating commitment to democracy, free expression and the rule of law.
The Green file, submitted to President Roberta Metsola and signed by 50 EU citizens, accuses the European Green Party of tolerating conspiracy narratives, Holocaust inversion, comparisons of Israelis with Nazis, and third-party comments left on politicians’ social media, including accounts linked to Bundestag Vice-President Omid Nouripour and MEP Hannah Neumann.
Other cited cases include remarks by former German Green Youth co-leader Jette Nietzard and a like by Sweden’s then Green co-spokesperson Märta Stenevi.
Zivile Allianz, which publishes Freie Welt, says the European party has not confronted the record.
Sell said the accusations were “just another example of the growing antisemitism within left-wing parties in Europe” and that the authorities should “stop funding the European Greens with taxpayer money.”
Antisemitism, he said, is incompatible with European values.
The European Parliament has voted to ask the independent Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) to verify whether the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party complies with the EU’s core values required for registration and funding.…
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