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Just days before the European elections, leading politicians in Germany are reacting to the knife attack by an Afghan refugee and subsequent death of a police officer with demands for harsher deportation measures.

Germany's domestic intelligence service is again facing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in court this week. Its job is to safeguard the democratic principles set out in the Basic Law.

Germany's domestic secret service is again facing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in court this week. Its job is to safeguard the democratic principles set out in the Basic Law.

The so-called Young Alternative is the radical youth wing of Germany's far-right AfD party. Courts have deemed the organization "extremist," and calls for a ban are growing.

A premature application to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party would possibly even be helpful for the party in the upcoming German state elections, according to Günter Krings, a spokesman for legal policy in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. "We must fight the AfD, including its sub-organizations, first and foremost politically and examine very carefully in any banning procedure whether it could do more good than harm to this party, at least in the short term," th...

The Identitarian Movement in Germany seemed to have ebbed. But now the right-wing extremists are making a comeback. They have close ties to the Alternative for Germany party and a notable financier who used to be an important member of the center-right Christian Democrats.

Participants at a Junge Alternative (JA) event allegedly made antisemitic and anti-immigrant statements, RTL reported Wednesday.

The court’s decision comes as thousands have protested against the party over fears that it could sweep upcoming state elections.

Germany's intelligence services may classify the youth organization of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed extremist movement, a regional court announced on Tuesday. The Cologne Administrative Court made the ruling the previous day. The verdict is not yet legally binding, as the AfD and its youth organization can lodge an appeal against it with a higher court in the state of North Rhine Westphalia, where Cologne is located. Germany's intelligence services h...

German intelligence may label the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist movement. The Cologne Administrative...