In March 2022 Beck who belongs to the moderate wing of the AfD, was elected vice president of the Parliament's Identity and Democracy (ID) Group .
He publicly called the ECB President Mario Draghi a "vile and vicious money slave [elender Finanzknecht]" for fetishizing the common currency and favouring short-term markets-driven policies over economic reconstruction.
Beck denounced von der Leyen as the most autocratic head of the Commission on the grounds that she showed profound contempt for both democracy and the rule of law.
Beck concluded that the Conference recommendations bore a striking resemblance to previous European Commission white papers and blueprints for EU treaty reform.
Beck has been an outspoken critic of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and as early as April 2021 he called for her to resign over her "disastrous" EU Covid vaccination and lockdown policy.
"[8] In 2023 he summed up von der Leyen's first term in office by congratulating her on achieving almost all her policy objects, but added that "her remarkable successes would ultimately proved more expensive and disastrous to the peoples of Europe than all the failures of her predecessors taken together.