Nancy Faeser: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution should be able to better investigate right-wing extremists. It should become easier for constitutional protection officers to investigate accounts of extremists, she says.

It targets the flow of money from new right- wing groups such as the “Identitarian Movement.” The security authorities have long complained about what they consider to be too high hurdles for financial investigations against right-Wing extremists. But the planned change in the law would also make it easier for the authorities to examine accounts in the area of legalistic Islamism and left-wing extremist groups.