The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution last week designated the AfD as a right-wing extremist organisation, meaning authorities can step up their surveillance of the party.

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Germany's federal domestic intelligence service has suspended its designation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a right-wing extremist group, pending a judicial decision, Reuters reported.

The extremist classification allows the spy agency to step up monitoring of the AfD, for example, by recruiting informants and intercepting party communications. Far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Germany's far-right AfD party said on Monday it was suing the domestic intelligence agency for labelling it a "right-wing extremist" party, a designation that sparked a row between Berlin and ...

BERLIN, May 9 (Reuters) - Public prosecutors in Germany have moved to strip a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of his immunity as a lawmaker after initiating a probe ...

BERLIN - Germany's domestic spy agency BfV has paused its classification of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist organisation in what the AfD on Thursday called a partial victory for ...

The extremist classification announced last week allows the Cologne-based spy agency to step up monitoring of the AfD, for example by recruiting informants and intercepting party communications.