Hard-right AfD wants 'Germany First' asylum policy


  • World
  • Monday, 21 Aug 2017

Alice Weidel (L) and Alexander Gauland of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AFD) address a news conference in Berlin, Germany August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN (Reuters) - The hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party called on Monday for Germany's asylum and development aid policies to be restructured along "Germany First" lines and painted a dramatic picture of a society overwhelmed by migration.

Founded in 2013 as an anti-euro party, the AfD shifted its focus after the euro zone debt crisis peaked to campaigning against immigration after Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2015 decision to open Germany's borders to a million refugees.

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