‘Russian sleeper cell’: Can Germany’s far-right AfD be barred from sensitive intel?
- What happens when Germany’s domestic intelligence service is monitored by the very people it is meant to spy on?
- The once speculative question has acquired sudden urgency – for both Germany and its allies – in the wake of a regional election that has put the German far right on the cusp of power for the first time since 1945.
- The Alternative for Democracy (AfD) party scored a resounding election win in Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month and is trying to form a coalition government in the small eastern state of Land, one of 16 that enjoy broad powers under Germany’s federal system.
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- What happens when Germany’s domestic intelligence service is monitored by the very people it is meant to spy on?
- The once speculative question has acquired sudden urgency – for both Germany and its allies – in the wake of a regional election that has put the German far right on the cusp of power for the first time since 1945.
- The Alternative for Democracy (AfD) party scored a resounding election win in Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month and is trying to form a coalition government in the small eastern state of Land, one of 16 that enjoy broad powers under Germany’s federal system.
Sources: France 24