Overview
- The Berlin Administrative Court issued the decision in an expedited proceeding, confirming the parliamentary administration’s authority to refuse access on security grounds.
- The ruling references plans by intelligence-linked associates to gain access to the Bundestag and politics in ways that could endanger Germany’s democratic order.
- Judges pointed to concrete entanglements, including work for the applicant’s company, a jointly founded gGmbH, and personal contact with Russia’s EU‑sanctioned human rights commissioner.
- The Bundestag had also highlighted the staffer’s calls for “remigration,” but the court said the Russia-related risks alone justified refusal and did not assess that point further.
- The staffer can appeal to the Higher Administrative Court Berlin‑Brandenburg, and the case follows September refusals of house passes to three other AfD parliamentary employees.