{"id":40550,"date":"2025-05-03T21:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/germany-hits-back-at-marco-rubio-after-he-panned-labeling-of-afd-as-extremist\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:10:42","slug":"germany-hits-back-at-marco-rubio-after-he-panned-labeling-of-afd-as-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/germany-hits-back-at-marco-rubio-after-he-panned-labeling-of-afd-as-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as \u2018extremist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right German party was labeled a \u2018confirmed rightwing extremist group\u2019 by country\u2019s domestic intelligence service<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, following his criticism of Germany\u2019s decision to label the far-right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/alternative-fur-deutschland-afd\">Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/a> party as a \u201cconfirmed rightwing extremist group\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Rubio took to X and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GermanyDiplo\/status\/1918397874687361199\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cGermany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That\u2019s not democracy \u2013 it\u2019s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD \u2013 which took second in the recent election \u2013 but rather the establishment\u2019s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/03\/marco-rubio-germany-afd\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right German party was labeled a \u2018confirmed rightwing extremist group\u2019 by country\u2019s domestic intelligence service Germany\u2019s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany\u2019s decision to label the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland party as a \u201cconfirmed rightwing extremist group\u201d. On Thursday, Rubio took to X &#8230; <a title=\"Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as \u2018extremist\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/germany-hits-back-at-marco-rubio-after-he-panned-labeling-of-afd-as-extremist\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as \u2018extremist\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}