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The domestic intelligence service in the eastern state of Saxony has designated the far right AfD party an extremist group. The move follows similar decisions in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. The regional association of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony has been classified as a right-wing extremist organization, the state's Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) announced Friday. After Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD in Saxony is the third state association to be given the designation. "There is no longer any doubt about the right-wing extremist orientation of the AfD Saxony," said Dirk-Martin Christian, president of the LfV, the state's domestic intelligence agency. In the 2019 state elections, the AfD received 27.5% of the vote. A recent opinion poll put support for the party at 33%, about the same as the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). AfD pursues 'anti-constitutional objectives' The Saxony branch of the...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD no longer expects the 2024 federal budget to be passed this year, but a political agreement among Germany's governing parties could be reached in the coming days. The German parliament will not have time to vote on the country's 2024 budget before the end of the year, a senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) wrote in a text message sent to the party members and seen by several news agencies on Thursday. "Although we have done as much as possible from our side, the budget for the year 2024 can no longer be finalized in time this year," wrote Katja Mast, a senior SPD lawmaker. However, Mast added, referring to discussions in the party leadership that Scholz "is confident that a result can be achieved in the coming days." Search for the solution to the budget crisis Scholz's three-party coalition with the environmentalist Greens and business-focused FDP is under huge press...

In der Kritik: Verteidigungsministerin Christine Lambrecht (57) und Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (64, beide SPD) Es ist eine Abrechnung mit der Bundeswehr-Strategie der Ampel-Regierung! In der renommierten US-Zeitung „Wall Street Journal“ (WSJ) analysiert der Sicherheits-Experte Mike Watson (Hudson Institute), dass die von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (64, SPD) verkündete „Zeitenwende“ in der Verteidigungspolitik gescheitert sei. Seit Scholz in einem „Moment der Hoffnung“ im Februar verkündete, mehr als zwei Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes in die Bundeswehr zu investieren, sei Deutschland in „alte Gewohnheiten“ zurückgefallen. Heißt: Deutschland hängt bei der Erfüllung der Nato-Ziele weiter hinterher, lässt seine Partner damit im Stich. Das desaströse Ergebnis der Analyse: „Die Aufrüstung ist kaputt.“ Das WSJ erklärt: Während acht Nato-Staaten – Großbritannien und osteuropäische Mitglieder des Verteidigungsbündnisses – die Ukraine deutlich stärker unterstützten, gehöre Deuts...