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Friday’s worrying classification of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as “right-wing extremist” by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution (BfV) did not go unnoticed in Hungary.
The 1,000 page report claims that “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order.” This is raising the probability of an outright ban on the AfD – such a motion was already submitted in the Bundestag last year. The AfD’s youth wing was already classified as an extremist group in 2023.
The BfV’s findings could potentially mean a ban on hiring AfD members or sympathizers for public jobs, such as police, army, teaching, public servants. This also means that intelligence services now have the green light to use more intrusive surveillance methods against people associated with the nationalist party, a fact that will reverberate with many who have suffered under former East Germany’s communist secret police.
Dear @PM_ViktorOrban, thank you very much for the encouraging words. Undeterred, the AfD will continue its path for the benefit of our country. https://t.co/rH09TT22LS
— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) May 3, 2025
In his reaction to Friday’s BfV report, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted on X, saying, “What the hell is going on in Germany? You can count on us, Alice Weidel!” In her reply, the joint leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, thanked the Hungarian Prime Minister for the encouragement and promised that “the AfD will continue its path for the benefit of our country.” The AfD is a member of the Patriots for Europe alliance in the European Parliament, and so is Orbán’s Fidesz party.
The worrying development from Germany was not lost on the new Trump administration either. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sharply criticized the German intelligence services’ actions, calling their conduct “tyranny.”
Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD… but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.
Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise.
What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 2, 2025
Rubio’s interpretation of the German legacy political establishment’s main complaint against the AfD, that it is the only party opposing the Merkel-doctrine of open borders, is shared by many analysts and politicians alike. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s Vice-President, has also chimed in on the debate accusing the German establishment of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, erected by the communist regime.
The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt—not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.
The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it.
The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt—not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment. https://t.co/Un6suHtSNJ
— JD Vance (@JDVance) May 2, 2025
According to the latest poll from April 22, the AfD is currently the most popular party in Germany attracting over quarter of all votes. The numbers reflect a widespread dissatisfaction with the new Chancellor-elect of Germany, the CDU’s Friedrich Merz, who many accuse of misleading voters by backtracking on his election promises, such as curbing uncontrolled immigration or environmental fundamentalism.
BREAKING: AfD break their polling record at 26% to become the biggest party in Germany
Germany is awakening… pic.twitter.com/9ZsaUz4Aau
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) April 22, 2025
Not only the economic, but also the political instability in Germany is having a serious negative effect on Hungary. On the one hand, the German economy’s woes translate to sluggish growth in the Hungarian economy as Germany is our largest trading partner by far. Furthermore, most of the political attacks in the European institutions against the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán are orchestrated by representatives of the German political establishment or their European proxies, ranging from the far-left Greens and Social Democrats (SPD), to the increasingly left-leaning CDU and CSU within the European Parliament. The latter two are members of the European Peoples Party, whose leader, Manfred Weber, has recently declared war on the democratically elected Hungarian government. In his re-election speech, he promised that “in spring next year, the Tisza Party will end the politics of corruption in Hungary. Viktor Orbán will retire.’ Such a direct and unveiled threat against another EU Member State would have been unimaginable only a few years ago, which is a sign of the radicalization of Germany’s political discourse.
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