Court Blocks Proven Extremist Label for Alice Weidel's AfD Party

The Cologne Administrative Court issued a preliminary ruling blocking the domestic intelligence agency from labeling the Alternative for Germany as a proven extremist group.Judges found that the use of the term remigration is too vague to prove a concrete anti-constitutional goal or a policy of indiscriminate deportation.The decision prevents expanded surveillance powers for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution against the party led by Alice Weidel.While acknowledging evidence of Islamophobia, the court ruled these tendencies do not define the entire organization that remains a challenger to Friedrich Merz.