Cologne court stops spy service from observing the AfD

One week before state elections in two large states (Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate) in Germany and six months before the federal election, the largest opposition party in the Bundestag has been declared a constitutional enemy. Such a public pillory is nothing less than an attack on democracy. Berlin The constitutionally protected “equal opportunities of political parties” according to Article 21 of the Basic Law in Germany has become a joke. In other words: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution acted unconstitutionally. And a German administrative court has stepped in to put an end to this madness for the time being. The spy service, the Federal Office for the...