The youth wing of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is distancing itself from the party's longstanding call for Germany to leave the euro currency, saying it instead wants reforms to address flaws in the currency system.
Jean-Pascal Hohm, head of the Generation Deutschland (GD) youth organization, told the Bild newspaper in remarks published on Friday: "We do not want Germany to leave the euro, but to address the existing structural flaws in the euro system."
The GD is due to adopt a position on the issue at a federal congress in the city of Magdeburg on Saturday. A draft statement says the euro has strengthened the European single market but has "structural flaws" and calls for reforms that would improve stability without giving up Europe's economic unity.
The AfD, which was founded in 2013 as a eurosceptic party, has called for Germany to leave the euro system in its 2025 election programme.
Hohm, who also sits on the AfD's federal board, also differs from party leader Alice Weidel on migration. While Weidel has called for Germany to leave the EU's Schengen free-movement area, Hohm said the country should remain part of it.
The GD was established last year as the AfD's new youth organization after the party dissolved its previous youth wing, the Junge Alternative (JA). The group is closely linked to the AfD.