{"id":70061,"date":"2025-05-03T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70061\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:01:08","slug":"rubio-slams-germany-after-it-classifies-far-right-afd-party-as-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70061\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio slams Germany after it classifies far-right AfD party as ‘extremist’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Washington:<\/strong> US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has harshly criticised Germany after its domestic intelligence agency described the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) an extremist entity that threatens democracy and called on the country to reverse course on its own domestic matter.<\/p>\n

The top US diplomat described the move as \u201ctyranny in disguise\u201d and took aim at the US ally\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cGermany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the Opposition. That\u2019s not democracy\u2014it\u2019s tyranny in disguise,\u201d he wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is truly extremist is not the popular AfD\u2014which took second in the recent election\u2014but rather the establishment\u2019s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGermany should reverse course,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n

The tweet by Rubio comes in response to Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency\u2019s finding, based on a 1,100 page expert report, that AfD is \u201cracist\u201d and \u201canti-Muslim\u201d.<\/p>\n

The classification of the party as an extremist entity allows authorities to increase their surveillance, including by recruiting confidential informants and intercepting communications.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time a high-level Trump administration official has aligned themselves with the far-right party.<\/p>\n

Both US Vice-President J.D. Vance and Elon Musk have voiced support for the AfD.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), announced on Friday that it has officially classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organisation at the national level.<\/p>\n

The AfD had previously been designated as a \u201csuspicion case\u201d federally, though several of its regional branches had already been classified as right-wing extremist entities.<\/p>\n

The BfV said its conclusion was the result of a thorough expert review conducted over nearly three years.<\/p>\n

According to German public broadcaster ARD, the BfV\u2019s assessment is detailed in a report exceeding 1,000 pages.<\/p>\n

The agency concluded that the AfD\u2019s prevailing \u201cethnic-based concept of the people\u201d is incompatible with Germany\u2019s liberal democratic basic order.<\/p>\n

In response to the decision, AfD co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla condemned the move as a serious blow to democracy.<\/p>\n

In a statement, they said the party would continue to challenge the classification through legal means, describing it as a \u201cdemocracy-endangering defamation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The AfD currently enjoys strong support in public opinion polls. It surpassed the conservative CDU\/CSU bloc for the first time last month to become the strongest political party in a national survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has harshly criticised Germany after its domestic intelligence agency described the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,25002],"class_list":{"0":"post-70061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-united-states-of-america"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114441675365576358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70061","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=70061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}