Beyond its anti-immigrant stance, Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has an economic platform that would see Germany leave the European Union as it is today and return to a more limited European system of cooperation. Here is what is known about the economic policies proposed by the party and how they are seen by mainstream economists. The AfD was founded in 2013 after the financial crisis by a group of free market economists who were fundamentally critical of European integration and further angered by the EU's bail-out of Greece and other heavily indebted euro states.