German anti-immigrant party calls for end to fundamental right to asylum

The leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) has called for the right to asylum that is enshrined in the country's constitution to be replaced by a non-binding right granted by grace. More than a million migrants, many of them Muslims from the Middle East, have arrived in Germany since the start of 2015, and ensuing fears about security and difficulties in integrating the newcomers have swelled the popularity of the right-wing AfD. Germany will hold its next general election in