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Top German Judge Says Overzealous ECHR 'Endangers The Existence Of Western Democracies'

2025-09-05

[ZERO] Hans-Jurgen Papier, Germany’s former chief justice and one of the country’s most senior legal scholars, has warned that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is undermining national sovereignty by creating what he called a "de facto right to immigration through the back door."

I thought that was the point.

The 82-year-old Ludwig Maximilian University professor, who led Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court at the start of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship, told The Times newspaper that a growing body of asylum case law from national courts and the ECHR in Strasbourg had created an "ever deeper reaching and ever more closely meshed agglomeration" of rulings. These, he said, were now "settling like mildew over the states’ political power to take action."

In his view, the result has been a dramatic broadening of the right to asylum, far beyond what was originally intended under the Geneva Convention.

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