The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party holds a commanding lead in the north-eastern state of ...

The court found efforts to undermine the free democratic order from within the far-right party, but ruled the organization as a whole did not follow that push.

The domestic intelligence agency can still spy on the far-right party, and the ruling may not change Germans’ views, but it is a symbolic victory for the AfD.

A German court has rightly blocked the country’s domestic intelligence service from continuing to brand the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party a “right-wing extremist” ...