The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a lawsuit against the country's agency tasked with protecting the constitution after it designated the party as "right-wing extremist" last ...

The agency cited a "xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic" rhetoric among the reasons for the designation. The label gives authorities more power to investigate the far-right party. https://p.dw ...

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has designated AfD as a right-wing extremist organisation, citing xenophobic stances as the reason. Germany’s Federal Office for ...

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BERLIN, May 5 (Reuters) - Far-right party Alternative for Germany filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging a decision last week by Germany's domestic intelligence agency to classify the party as an ...

Germany's intelligence agency labeled the AfD as extremist, sparking a ban debate. Across Europe, far-right parties vary in acceptance. Austria's FPÖ, with Nazi roots, has twice been in government.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also waded in on Friday, calling the AfD designation as a right-wing extremist outfit as "tyranny in disguise." "Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist entity that threatens democracy, a move enabling it to better monitor the ...

The party known as AfD, which placed second in national elections in February, took action at an administrative court in Cologne, where the intelligence service has its headquarters. The decision ...

Spy agency says AfD 'nativism' devalues swathes of population New classification makes it easier for authorities to spy on AfD AfD leaders vow legal action against 'defamatory attacks' Party now ...

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Verfassungsschutz, justified its decision by claiming there were “numerous indications of efforts by the AfD to undermine the fre ...