Reuters:

The new Greek government’s anti-bailout stance has sent shudders through much of Europe but Germany’s eurosceptic AfD party can hardly believe its good fortune ahead of a regional election as a breakup of the euro zone suddenly appears possible.
Syriza, which took power last week, rejects German-led austerity. That could boost the Alternative for Germany (AfD), set up in 2013 to tap anger over bailouts. The mood at an AfD congress in Bremen was ebullient as many talked of a ‘Grexit’.
“We all obviously want Greece to leave the euro zone,” AfD founder Bernd Lucke told Reuters. “Now we’re a bit more hopeful that this could even come true.”
A central element in the policy stance of the AfD is the need to break up the euro zone, which it sees as the only way to solve Europe’s economic problems. Some members talk about splitting the euro zone into northern and southern blocs.

Well, yes.

Such a split is unlikely to happen, but it remains the right thing to do.

Meanwhile Lucke says what needs to be said about, Alexis Tsipras, Syriza’s new leader:

I’m thankful to this socialist troublemaker for standing up and showing everyone that the euro zone doesn’t work.

Clearly alarmed by this outbreak of truth-telling Reuters attempts to redress the balance with a bit of color (my emphasis added):

Frauke Petry, an AfD leader and one of the few women at the congress packed with balding men, said the turmoil in Greece put issues championed by the AfD back on the agenda.

Of course, Tsipras is unlikely to care very much about a few insults hurled his way from Germany (if anything they will help him with his own domestic constituency).

What much matters more is whether Merkel, a chancellor who has let down Germany so badly and for so long, will start paying attention to what the rise of the AfD could mean for her political prospects. It was only when David Cameron belatedly started paying attention to what UKIP was doing to his political future that he began at least a serious pretense of euroskepticism. Germany’s not there yet, and its political landscape is much less favorable to euroskepticism than is Britain’s, but the no less self-interested Merkel will not like what she’s hearing . . .