Germany’s domestic intelligence agency must temporarily stop categorizing the leading far-right, anti-immigration party as “confirmed extremist,” a court ruled on Thursday, handing the party a win ahead of state elections this year. The injunction, by an administrative court in Cologne, is in place until the court decides whether the label applied to the party, the Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, is legal. The process could take months or years. The intelligence agency announced the designation in May. Alice Weidel, one of the party’s two leaders, praised the ruling in a post on X. “A great victory not only for the...
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