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 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 ...

The CDU and the AfD’s positions on downsizing government, freeing up private enterprise, and strengthening Germany’s borders, while not identical in sweep, make the two parties natural partners ...

Now, following their disastrous performance in February’s federal elections, the Social Democrats may lose the room to the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which came in second and ...

The Trump administration’s alliance with the racist political party signals the rise of a far right international.

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 ...

Germany tightened security at the southern borders with Austria and the Czech ... has temporarily lifted its labeling of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "right-wing extremist" pending an ...

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The AfD filed its lawsuit on Monday and is also seeking a fast-track interim ruling that would stop the decision taking effect while the challenge is pending, according to a spokeswoman for the ...

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 on Friday allows the spy agency to step up monitoring of the AfD, for example by recruiting informants and intercepting party communications. The agency's ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has launched a legal challenge against Germany’s domestic intelligence agency for designating the far-right party an “extremist” organisation. A ...