The party has been described as a German nationalist,[2][3][4] right-wing populist,[20] and Eurosceptic[6] party. Since about 2015, the AfD has been increasingly open to working with far-right extremist groups such as Pegida.[21] Parts of the AfD have racist,[22] Islamophobic,[23] anti-Semitic[24][25] and xenophobic[11][26][27] tendencies linked to far-right movements such as neo-Nazism[28][25] and identitarianism.[29][30]