AfD classified as far-right extremist. What happens now?

AfD parliamentary group meeting

Tino Chrupalla, AfD federal spokesperson and chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, and parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel are combative following the categorisation of their party as right-wing extremist. Credit: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images

The German secret service has classified the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as right-wing extremist. What does that mean and how are politicians responding?


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