Niels Petersen is Professor of Public Law, International Law, and EU Law at the University of Münster. His essay is titled Supporting Democracy by Fixing the Asylum System :

The Alternative for Germany (AfD), a right-wing populist party, was founded in response to the euro crisis. Its initial focus was the abolition of the euro, the single currency of most EU member states. While hostility to immigration was present from the outset, it was not yet a defining trait. The party failed to enter the German federal parliament in the first federal elections after its founding in 2013. However, after pushing out some of the more moderate founders, the party raised its profile as an anti-immigrant force, particularly in opposition to Angela Merkel’s decision to admit more than one million refu

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