The far-right Alternative for Germany party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt is taking legal action over its designation by the state's domestic intelligence service as a confirmed right-wing extremist group. The state-level AfD party in Saxony-Anhalt filed a complaint in administrative court, deputy state chairman Hans-Thomas Tillschneider told dpa on Wednesday. A court spokesman said that legal filings would be exchanged but that it is too early to say when a hearing on the case would be
Scholz arrived in Romania's capital Bucharest for a conference of the Party of European Socialists, part of the Socialists and Democrats group, the second biggest in the Parliament. Voters in the 27 EU member states go to the polls 6-9.