A court decision to cut state funding to a minor far-right political party in Germany has sparked calls for similar rules to be applied to the much more significant rightwing populist AfD, which is at the centre of a storm over immigration policy. The constitutional court ruled in favour of stopping public funding to the party Die Heimat (the homeland), successor to the National Democratic Party, NPD from 2023. The Karlsruhe institution said its decision was justified because the NPD and Die Heimat were explicitly out to undermine or even overthrow German democracy. It is the first ruling of its...