AfD and Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Secret plans are not to be expected (faz.net)

• Cologne court challenges the procedural validity of indefinite AfD monitoring.
• Intelligence agencies face stricter requirements for long-term surveillance.
• Future legal rulings may force a termination of current observation status.

"The Cologne Administrative Court has cast doubt on the indefinite surveillance of the AfD by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The ruling suggests that keeping a party under continuous observation without producing definitive, escalating evidence of anti-constitutional activity is legally precarious, potentially ending the surveillance status."