Imagine if the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service declared one of the parties currently in Parliament an extremist organisation - sparking calls to have the party banned altogether.
Well that's exactly what's happening in Germany.
The far-right German political party, Alternative for Germany or AfD has been classified as an extremist organisation by the country's domestic intelligence agency based on its anti-immigration and anti-Muslim views. The party was previously classified as a suspected extremist group.
Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian, journalist and author of Beyond the Wall: East Germany.
She talks to Emile about what this re-designation could mean for the second largest party in the German parliament.
Co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel. Photo: SOEREN STACHE / AFP
