Germany’s domestic intelligence agency formally classified the Alternative for Germany as a right-wing extremist movement, meaning authorities will have enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy.

The judgment by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution “is based on an extremely careful expert review spanning approximately three years” that examined remarks made by high-ranking AfD officials, according to a statement published Friday by Sinan Selen and Silke Willems, the office’s co-vice presidents.

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    22 hours ago

    “Exclusion of the right extremists”? you mean like, when the conservatives formed a coalition with them?

    What do you think will now happen? AfD will just disappear? East Germany will suddenly vote for conservatives or leftist?

    You didn’t exactly try to answer the question by @bennypr0fane there … making this part of your response seem a little disingenuous:

    and it is funny that people don’t get it and just downvote me instead of engaging in a discussion

    (Fwiw, I agree, acting on underlying issues such as social issues is really important. However, another one of the underlying issues is state financing of their propaganda, and that is now much easier to stop.)

    /f

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      9 hours ago

      I do not see your suggestion of how the problem can be solved otherwise. Anything else coming?