The article is fine, described the current situation good enough.

“…AfD, a party that sits on the far-Right in the European Parliament’s benches and which supports German withdrawal from the EU.”

They, AfD, don’t want to withdraw Germany from the EU. They want to reform it and take their power to enforce laws on all EU member states.

No country embraces free speech in the purest sense of the phrase. All societies regulate speech. The question is where the lines are drawn. Europe does not fear “free speech”. It fears enabling things like the next Putin, Hitler, and Stalin. Probably it too now fears becoming like the U.S. The U.S. conception of what free speech means is not the ideal in my opinion and we Americans ought not act as if there are no other legitimate ways of defining free speech.