{"id":69891,"date":"2025-05-03T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69891\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:31:10","slug":"germanys-afd-dealt-blow-with-right-wing-extremist-label-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69891\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s AfD dealt blow with right-wing extremist label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Frankfurt, Germany \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, setting off a diplomatic spat with the United States and fueling calls for the party to be banned.<\/p>\n<p>The BfV intelligence agency, which had already designated several local branches of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) as right-wing extremists, said it moved against the entire party due to its attempts to &#8220;undermine the free, democratic&#8221; order in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The classification gives authorities greater powers to monitor the party by lowering the barriers for such steps as intercepting telephone calls and deploying undercover agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankfurt, Germany \u2013 Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[8385,2000,299,1824,2322],"class_list":{"0":"post-69891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-surveillance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114441321478482168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}