CDU: program for the 2026 Berlin state election

The Urban Tech Republic is to be built on the former Tegel airport as a digital and sustainable model district, including an experimentation zone where investment should face hardly any bureaucratic requirements. Other urban development plans include a concept for City-West and open city data.

The old Tegel airport should become a new city district. Research and companies should work there together. There should be a zone for testing new ideas. Companies there should face few rules. The city should also share more data openly.

The CDU wants the eight legally permitted shopping Sundays to actually take place and wants districts to be able to add two more per year. Late-night convenience stores (Spätis) are to get legally secure rules, and a strategy is to revive shopping streets and reduce vacancies.

Shops should open on Sundays more often. Districts should be able to add two extra Sundays a year. Spätis should get clear rules. Spätis are small shops that stay open late. Empty shops should be used again.

The CDU wants to cut red tape under a "one in, two out" rule and abolish, as a matter of principle, all state-level reporting and documentation requirements for businesses as of a set date. Only obligations that are explicitly justified would remain.

The CDU wants fewer rules for companies. For each new rule, two old rules should go. Companies often must write reports for the state. Most of these duties should end on one set day. Only well-justified duties should stay.

The CDU wants to abolish Berlin's own public tendering and procurement law (BerlAVG) and apply federal procurement law instead. The goals are less red tape, lower costs and more freedom for businesses. The training-place support fund is also to be reviewed and scrapped if necessary.

Berlin has its own rules for public contracts. These rules should go away. Then the federal rules apply. This should save companies work and money. A fund for training places will also be checked.

The CDU wants to fully digitalize business registration so companies can be founded within 24 hours. New businesses are to receive tax relief, and business successions are to be secured.

Starting a company should be fast. It should work within 24 hours. Registration should be fully digital. New companies should pay less tax. Companies should also find successors more easily.

Berlin is to become a leading location for security and defense technologies. The CDU wants to build a defense tech (DefTech) ecosystem and bring a TechHub SVI Ost to Berlin.

Berlin should become an important place for defense technology. Companies and research should work together there. The CDU wants to bring a new hub to Berlin.

The CDU wants to give more support to Berlin's pharmaceutical industry and medical device makers. In its view, this should attract investment, strengthen research and create high-quality jobs. Berlin is also meant to become a hub for environmental and climate technology and to grow its industrial output.

The CDU wants to support companies that make medicine and medical devices. This should bring money and good jobs to Berlin. Berlin should also develop technology for the environment and climate. Industry in Berlin should grow.

The CDU wants Berlin to remain Germany's start-up capital and a place where young companies can grow and scale internationally. To that end, venture capital structures are to be strengthened, new financing tools created and a Berlin Fund set up with the state investment bank IBB.

Berlin should stay the city of new companies. Young companies need money to grow. The CDU wants to start a Berlin Fund for this. A fund is a pot of money for companies. Other kinds of help should grow too.

The CDU wants to strengthen hotels, restaurants and tourism as economic sectors. It backs the permanently reduced VAT on restaurant food and wants a training campus for the hospitality industry and more international conferences.

Hotels, restaurants and tourism matter for Berlin. The CDU supports the lower tax on restaurant food. It wants a training campus for hotel and restaurant jobs. More big events from around the world should come to Berlin.

The CDU commits to the Messe master plan and wants to expand the state-owned trade fair company Messe Berlin as an international venue. Private investment in Messe Berlin is to be made possible. The ICC congress center is to be put to multiple uses.

The state owns the Berlin trade fair. The CDU wants to make it bigger and better known. Private investors should be allowed to put money in. The old ICC congress center should be used again.

The CDU wants Berlin's more than 60 state-owned companies to be run more efficiently and their oversight professionalized. The six state-owned housing companies are to be merged into no more than three, to eliminate duplicate structures and use investment funds more effectively.

Berlin owns more than 60 companies. The CDU wants them run better. Experts should oversee these companies. Berlin has six city-owned housing companies. They should become three at most.

The CDU wants to help companies recruit skilled workers from abroad and speed up residence procedures. The Berlin Welcome Center is to get welcome managers, and housing for employees and apprentices is to be expanded.

Berlin wants more skilled workers from other countries. Offices should work faster. Workers should get one person to help them. There should be more dorms for apprentices.

The CDU wants to give the Berlin city cleaning company (BSR) more staff, as finances allow, and assign it more responsibilities such as green spaces and playgrounds. Long-term unemployed people would work there through mini-jobs and asylum seekers through community work opportunities.

The city cleaning company BSR should get more workers. It should also clean parks and playgrounds. Long-term jobless people should get mini-jobs there. Asylum seekers should do community work there. This should help them integrate.

The CDU wants legally mandated benefit cuts for people who deliberately evade official measures to be applied consistently. Authorities are to share data on a binding basis, and benefit fraud is to be fought more vigorously.

Some people do not cooperate with the authorities. The law then allows cuts to their benefits. The CDU wants these cuts applied every time. Offices should share data for this. Benefit fraud should be pursued more.

The CDU wants people with disabilities to participate equally in working life. A central state advisory center is to advise employers on hiring, funding and inclusion. The party also sees this as a response to labor shortages.

People with disabilities should be able to work. The CDU wants an advice center for employers. Companies get help there. For example, about funding and hiring.

The CDU wants to lower liability and tax barriers to food donations. Businesses should find it easier to give surplus food for social purposes, which is also meant to reduce food waste.

Companies often have leftover food. They should be able to donate it more easily. The CDU wants to change rules on liability and taxes. Less food will be thrown away.

The CDU wants income young people earn from student jobs, holiday work or apprenticeships to no longer be deducted from their parents' social benefits. This is meant to let young people from low-income families show initiative and take responsibility early.

Some teenagers have a side job. Their parents get money from the state. Today, the teen's pay is deducted from it. The CDU wants to change this. Teens should keep their money.

The CDU wants to prevent homelessness earlier and expand help for homeless people. Plans include a central 'House of Help', a state program modeled on Neukölln's Safe Places project and better medical care.

Many people in Berlin have no home. The CDU wants to help them more. There should be a 'House of Help'. Homeless people find help there in one place. There should also be help before people lose their homes.

The CDU wants to make family and work easier to combine through more flexible working hours and models suited to different stages of life. At the federal level, it wants to introduce a weekly rather than a daily working-time rule.

Many families want more time together. The CDU wants more flexible working hours. The rules should fit every stage of life. The federal government should set a weekly limit. Then hours count per week, not per day.

The CDU wants to expand district senior services and create staffed help points where older people get support with digital services. Loneliness is to be addressed as a social problem.

Older people should get more services. There should be places where helpers assist with online services. For example, with online banking. There should be office hours against loneliness. Park benches should invite people to chat.

The CDU wants to pursue tax fraud and financial crime more aggressively by giving tax auditors and investigators more staff and technology. Through a Bundesrat initiative, it also wants businesses to be required to accept at least one digital means of payment.

The CDU wants to fight tax fraud harder. Tax investigators should get more staff and technology. They should be able to use police data. Shops should have to accept digital payment. For example, by card.

The CDU wants to introduce a Grundsteuer C, a land tax that charges vacant, build-ready plots at a particularly high rate. This is meant to encourage quick construction on such land. Schemes to avoid the real estate transfer tax are also to be stopped.

Some plots of land are ready for building but stay empty. The CDU wants a higher tax on them. It is called land tax C. Owners should then build faster. Tricks to avoid the property purchase tax should be stopped.

The CDU wants to continue budget consolidation and comply with the debt brake, citing fairness between generations. All areas are to be checked for savings, social spending steered more precisely, and the offerings of what it calls the 'free-of-charge city' reviewed.

The CDU does not want new debt. There is a rule for this called the debt brake. The party says this is fair to future generations. All spending should be checked. Free services and social spending will also be reviewed.

The CDU rules out raising any taxes that Berlin controls directly and wants to keep local business tax multipliers stable. Instead of higher taxes, it relies on sound budgeting, an efficient administration, and strict spending control.

The CDU does not want to raise taxes in Berlin. This applies to all taxes the city sets itself. The local business tax should also stay the same. Companies pay this tax. Instead, the city should be careful with money.

The CDU wants to make Berlin's tax offices more effective and continue the organizational reform it has already started. In its view, well-functioning tax offices are essential for funding the city and for tax fairness.

The CDU wants to improve Berlin's tax offices. These offices collect taxes. They should become more modern and faster. More work should happen digitally. This should help the staff.

The CDU wants Berlin's state-owned land and buildings to be managed more on commercial principles and under central control. As a rule, the properties are to stay in public hands, but sales should be possible in justified individual cases.

Berlin owns a lot of land and buildings. The CDU wants to manage them in a more business-like way. Unused buildings should be rented out. Sometimes Berlin should be allowed to sell land. The money should then go to other buildings.

The CDU wants existing tenant rights enforced more consistently and the rent review office (Mietpreisprüfstelle) expanded into a body that also penalizes violations. In the program's view, strong tenant protection mainly means enforcing current law.

The CDU wants to protect renters better. Berlin has a rent review office. It checks if rents are legal. This office should get more staff. It should also punish violations.

The CDU rejects socializing large housing companies and introducing a rent freeze (Mietendeckel). In its view, such measures would deter investment, block new construction and disadvantage people looking for housing. It prefers more construction and tenant protection instead.

The CDU is against taking over housing companies. It is also against a rent freeze. That is a fixed upper limit on rents. The CDU says this means less building. It wants to build more homes instead.

The CDU wants binding rules for subletting in tight housing markets and better protection of subtenants against main tenants. The aim is to prevent abuse and increase transparency.

Some people rent from another renter. They are called subtenants. The CDU wants to protect them better. There should be clear rules. They should learn what the main renter pays.

The CDU wants social housing to go specifically to those in need. For new leases, tenants' incomes are to be checked regularly, and those exceeding the limits would pay a rent surcharge.

Social housing should go to people who need it. The CDU wants to check renters' incomes regularly. People who earn too much pay more rent. The money should pay for new social housing.

The CDU wants to promote first-time purchases of owner-occupied homes, especially for families. It plans a grant, a rent-to-own model for state-owned apartments and a sharp cut in the real estate transfer tax. The program sees ownership as a path to upward mobility and retirement security.

The CDU wants more people to buy their own home. First-time buyers should get money. Each adult gets 10,000 euros. Each child gets 5,000 euros. The tax on buying a home should also go down.

The CDU wants allocation of state-owned apartments to aim more at a social mix in neighborhoods. It considers today's focus on households receiving welfare benefits unsustainable. It also wants to promote apartment swaps and family housing.

The CDU wants mixed neighborhoods. State-owned apartments should go to many kinds of people. Families with two incomes should also have a chance. Older people should be able to move to smaller homes. Then big apartments become free for families.

The CDU wants to expand the public-interest housing sector and specifically support cooperatives, church-run providers and foundations. The target is at least 1,000 new cooperative apartments per year. Joining a cooperative is also to become cheaper.

Housing cooperatives are owned by their members together. The CDU wants to support them more. At least 1,000 new homes should be built each year. Buying shares in a cooperative should cost less.

The CDU wants a housing offensive to create 100,000 new homes by 2031. It plans a standardized Berlin apartment building type, shorter procedures and limiting environmental, species-protection and heritage rules to the legally required minimum.

The CDU wants 100,000 new homes by 2031. Berlin should have a standard building design. These buildings should get permits faster. Applications should go digital. Rules for nature and old buildings should not be stricter than needed.

The CDU wants to expand the stock of Berlin's state-owned housing companies to 500,000 apartments. The companies are to receive additional equity and a reliable framework.

Berlin owns its own housing companies. They should own 500,000 apartments in the future. The state should give them more money. They should use it to build and renovate.

The CDU wants to develop the edges of Tempelhofer Feld, the former airport field, with more than 20,000 homes. The open space itself is to remain a place for sports, leisure, culture and recreation and be further developed.

The CDU wants to build on the edges of Tempelhofer Feld. More than 20,000 homes would go there. About 50,000 people could live there. The big open field in the middle stays. People can still use it for sports and relaxing.

The CDU wants to further improve child protection in Berlin. Youth clubs should have binding safeguarding plans, youth welfare offices should be better equipped, and doctors should be allowed to work together more closely when they suspect abuse. For the party, the child's welfare comes first.

The CDU wants to protect children better. Youth clubs should have fixed safety rules. Staff should be trained for this. Crimes should always be reported to the police. Doctors should be allowed to share concerns more easily.

The CDU wants to introduce a 'Berliner Chancenpass' (Berlin opportunity pass) as an app that bundles benefits for children and makes them digitally accessible. In the party's view, benefits such as the education and participation package often go unused due to red tape and lack of information.

Poor children have a right to help. But many do not get it. The CDU wants a 'Berlin Opportunity Pass'. It is an app. Kids find local offers there, like sports or tutoring.

The CDU plans a quality drive for daycare centers focused on language development and better-trained staff. It also wants more flexible and longer care hours, including 24-hour daycare for shift workers.

Daycare centers should get better. Children should learn language better there. Staff should get better training. There should be more daycare open at night. This helps people who work shifts.

The CDU places a focus on single parents. It wants to expand their support network, protect them from losing their homes, and offer free, flexible childcare and better career prospects.

The CDU wants to help single parents more. They should not lose their homes. There should be free childcare, also early and late. More public-sector jobs should allow working from home. The federal government should support them with more money.

The CDU wants to further support foster families, building on a start-up bonus it already introduced and reduced red tape. It plans more psychosocial help and will push at the federal level for Elterngeld (parental allowance) for foster families.

Foster families take in children in hard situations. The CDU wants to keep helping them. There should be more easy-to-reach mental health help. Foster parents should also get parental allowance. The CDU will push for this at the federal level.

The CDU wants all family benefits to be accessible digitally through the Berlin family portal, including automatic applications. Family service offices and family centers are to be expanded and public offices made more family-friendly.

Families should apply for help easily. Everything should work through one website. It is the Berlin family portal. Child benefit and parental allowance should be applied for automatically. Families should get served faster at public offices.

The CDU wants to expand and modernize youth centers, including their digital equipment. It sees them as places for meeting, orientation and prevention, and wants other public spaces to become more usable for young people.

Youth centers should grow and get modern. They should also have good computers and internet. Young people meet there. They get help there. Parks should get more outdoor workout equipment.

The CDU wants vocational and academic education to be treated as equal and plans to make advanced training for master craftsmen, technicians and certified business specialists free of charge. Schools are to hold a "Day of the Trades".

Master craftsman training should cost nothing. This also applies to technicians. After the exam, people get their costs back. Schools should hold a day for the trades. Local companies present themselves there.

The CDU wants an Innovation Freedom Act for Berlin that gives state-run research institutes the same flexibility federally funded institutes already have. At the same time, the transfer of research into applications and spin-offs is to be greatly improved.

Research should turn into new products faster. The CDU wants a new law for this. State research institutes should get more freedom. Universities should help more people start companies.

The CDU wants to anchor entrepreneurship more firmly in university studies and academic careers. An internship program is to place 1,000 students a year in Berlin start-ups, backed by a state subsidy.

Students should learn how to start a company. The CDU wants 1,000 students a year to work in young companies. They do an internship there. The state pays 500 euros a month toward it.

The CDU wants to clear the renovation backlog at Berlin's universities and draw up reliable investment plans together with them. Berlin is also to win more federal money from the Hightech Agenda, and the state higher education law is to cut red tape.

Many university buildings need repairs. The CDU wants to fix them. Building should go faster. Berlin should get more federal money for research. Rules for universities should be simpler.

The CDU wants to let universities charge tuition fees on a limited scale, for example for students well past the standard duration of study or students from non-EU countries. The revenue is to go toward better teaching and study conditions.

Studying in Berlin has no tuition fees today. The CDU wants to change that for some groups. Students who take much longer than planned should pay. Students from outside the EU should pay too. The money should improve teaching.

The CDU wants to expand inclusive teaching in mainstream schools while keeping dedicated special-needs centers. Parents should choose whether their child attends an inclusive school or a special-needs center. In the party's view, inclusion should be guided by the child's well-being.

Some children need extra help at school. The CDU wants more shared classes in regular schools. Special-needs schools should stay, too. Parents should decide which school their child goes to.

The CDU wants to keep Berlin's tiered school system and strengthen the Gymnasium (academic-track secondary school). It rejects experiments with individual school types. At the same time, moving between school types should become easier and fairer.

Berlin has different types of schools. The CDU wants to keep this system. The Gymnasium should get stronger. It is the school that prepares for university. Switching between school types should be easier.

The CDU wants to improve funding for independent and faith-based schools. A strengthened construction-cost subsidy is meant to create more school places, widen parents' choice, and take pressure off public schools.

Some schools are not run by the state. Churches or other groups run them. The CDU wants to give them more money for buildings. This should create more school places. Parents should have more choice.

The CDU wants to further expand the preschool year it reintroduced through the Kita-Chancenjahr (daycare opportunity year). No child should start school without speaking fluent German. The aim is for every child to have the necessary basics before school begins.

Berlin has a preschool year in daycare again. The CDU wants to make it bigger. All children should speak good German before school. Daycare and primary school should work more closely together.

The CDU wants to gradually reduce class sizes over the next five years where needed. Primary school classes should have at most 20 students, secondary classes at most 25. These caps are to be written into law.

The CDU wants smaller school classes. Primary classes should have at most 20 kids. Later classes should have at most 25. This should be in the law. The CDU wants to reach this in five years.

The CDU wants binding minimum standards in German and math in primary schools. Grammar, spelling, and joined-up cursive handwriting should be taught systematically from first grade. In the party's slogan, school should involve less gendering and more reading, writing, and arithmetic.

All children should learn to read, write, and do math well in primary school. They should practice grammar and spelling from first grade. They should also learn cursive writing. The CDU wants less gender-neutral language in school.

The CDU rejects abolishing school grades and relies on clear performance standards and exams. Education policy is to be based more on data and research. All students should meet the national standards set by the Kultusministerkonferenz (conference of state education ministers).

The CDU wants to keep school grades. Children and parents should get honest feedback. Schools should use data and tests. This should help make lessons better.

The CDU wants to add an active state duty to Berlin's Neutralitätsgesetz (Neutrality Act) to protect students from religious pressure. Religious practices such as fasting during Ramadan should remain voluntary. Teaching should firmly convey the principles of a secular constitutional state.

Berlin has a law about religion and the state. It is called the Neutrality Act. The CDU wants to expand it. Schools should protect kids from religious pressure. For example, no one should be pushed to fast during Ramadan.

The CDU wants to recruit and retain more teachers, including by granting them civil-servant status and speeding up hiring. All teachers should in future take part in regular, mandatory professional development.

Berlin needs more teachers. The CDU wants teachers to keep getting civil-servant status. Applicants should get jobs faster. All teachers should take training courses regularly. This should be required.

The CDU wants schools to have other professionals in addition to teachers. Every school should have enough social workers. This is meant to relieve teachers and free up more time for teaching.

Schools should have more than just teachers. Social workers, psychologists, and other experts should work there too. Every school should have enough social workers. Then teachers have more time to teach.

The CDU wants to continue its school construction program and set up a new central state agency modeled on Hamburg or Oslo. A program for smaller repairs is meant to bring quick improvements. Public-private partnerships are also to help with construction.

Berlin is building many new schools. The CDU wants to keep going. One central state office should manage school building. Small damage should be fixed faster. Private companies should also help build.

The CDU wants to relieve schools, districts, and administrators of bureaucracy. Cost-and-performance accounting in the school sector is to be reviewed and simplified or scrapped where it mainly creates extra work.

Schools have a lot of paperwork. The CDU wants less of it. One cost-tracking system should be checked. If it only makes work, it should go. Then there is more time for teaching.

The CDU wants every student in grades 7 to 10 to have a digital device by 2030 and all schools to have high-performance networks. School administration processes are to go fully digital, and schools are to get more autonomy.

The CDU wants schools to be more digital. By 2030, all kids in grades 7 to 10 should get a device. For example, a tablet or a laptop. Schools should get more help with tech problems. Enrollment and report cards should also be digital.

Building on the so-called violence barometer, the CDU wants a strategy against violence in schools that combines prevention, intervention and sanctions. Violence, antisemitism, extremism and discrimination are to have no place in schools.

The CDU wants to fight violence at schools. There should be a clear plan for this. The plan should help prevent violence. It should also include punishment for violence. Schools should work more closely with youth services.

The CDU wants a state program for mental health and more school psychology services, citing growing social and psychological pressure on children and teens. This is complemented by healthy school meals, health prevention and first-aid training.

Many kids are under a lot of pressure today. The CDU wants schools to help them more. There should be more school psychologists. School lunches should be healthy. Kids should also learn first aid.

The CDU wants to strengthen school sports, keep grades in physical education and introduce citywide school championships. A swimming initiative is to ensure every child leaves elementary school able to swim safely.

The CDU wants more sports at school. Students should still get grades in gym class. There should be school championships for all of Berlin. Every child should learn to swim safely in elementary school.

The CDU wants vocational and academic education to be treated as equal and career guidance to be mandatory at all secondary schools from grade 7. Young people are to learn early about the range of training paths.

Not everyone has to go to college. The CDU wants job training and college to count the same. From grade 7, all students should learn about jobs. There should be more internships and company visits.

The CDU wants more civic education at all schools, including mandatory study of democratic institutions and German history. The program sees education as the best prevention against extremism. Media literacy is to be a required part of schooling everywhere.

Students should learn more about democracy. They should visit parliament and memorial sites. They should talk about extremism and antisemitism. They should learn to spot fake news. Europe should also be taught more.

The CDU wants a mandatory elective area in which students choose between religion and ethics, modeled on Brandenburg. This would give religious and worldview education a fixed place in schools.

The CDU wants more religion in schools. Students should choose religion or ethics. One of the two should be required. Brandenburg already does this.

The CDU wants the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) to have a stronger presence in civics classes, school projects and through youth officers. Cooperation with police, fire services and the military is also to grow, with regular "blue-light days" at schools.

The army should come to schools more often. Youth officers should talk about security and jobs. Police and firefighters should also visit schools. There should be special days for this.

The CDU sees adult education as the fourth pillar of the education system and wants more support for independent providers plus a state program for permanent funding of basic education. More teachers at Volkshochschulen (community adult education centers) are to be permanently employed.

Learning does not end after school. The CDU wants better education for adults. There should be more money for basic skills. Adult education centers should hire more teachers on a permanent basis.

The CDU wants more sports clubs at daycare centers and schools and closer cooperation with sports clubs. Children and young people should learn to enjoy exercise early, and social background should not be a barrier to access.

The CDU wants more sports for children. Daycare centers and schools should offer more sports groups. They should work more closely with sports clubs. Poor children should be able to join too.

The CDU wants every child in Berlin to learn to swim safely, at the latest at school. It sees swimming as part of safety and of equal opportunity.

Every child in Berlin should learn to swim. This should happen at school at the latest. The CDU says swimming saves lives. All children should get the same chance.

The CDU wants to develop Berlin into a world-leading hub for the health economy and medical research. Red tape is to be cut, approvals sped up and more space made available. A Future Health Campus is to be built in central Berlin.

Berlin should become a world city for medicine. The CDU wants less red tape and faster approvals. Companies should get more space. A new health campus should be built in the city center.

The CDU wants state legislation allowing clinical data from all Berlin hospitals to be used for research, innovation and spin-offs under high data protection standards. A uniform hospital information system is to be introduced across all clinics.

Hospitals have a lot of data about patients. The CDU wants to use this data for research. Data protection should stay strong. All hospitals in Berlin should use the same computer system.

Working with the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung (association of statutory health insurance physicians), the CDU wants to change rules so that family doctors, pediatricians, and midwives set up practice where they are needed. It also plans practice space in new buildings, a central directory of services, and more local prevention.

The CDU wants more doctors close to where people live. Family doctors, children's doctors, and midwives should work where they are missing. New city buildings should have room for practices. A directory should show where doctors are. Pharmacies should offer more health services.

The CDU wants patients in emergencies to find the right place faster and waiting times in emergency rooms to fall. To this end, walk-in practices at hospitals are to be expanded and emergency services linked digitally.

In an emergency, people should find help faster. They should wait less in emergency rooms. Hospitals should have more urgent-care practices. The phone number 116117 should play a bigger role.

The CDU wants to implement the hospital reform with a plan developed jointly with all Berlin hospital operators and to invest specifically in infrastructure and equipment. The Charité is to receive adequate investment funding as a center of top-tier medicine.

The CDU wants to carry out the hospital reform. It wants to do this with all Berlin hospitals. The state should pay for buildings and equipment. The Charité is a big university hospital. It should get more money.

In long-term care, the CDU follows the principle of outpatient before inpatient care, so that people needing care can live at home as long as possible. At the same time, telemedicine and digital links between practices, hospitals, and care facilities are to be expanded citywide.

People who need care should live at home for a long time. Districts should offer more advice for this. Doctors should also help by video. Practices, hospitals, and care homes should be connected digitally. Older people should get help nearby.

The CDU wants to focus more on mental health, especially among young people, and expand low-threshold support services. Psychotherapy provision is to be based on actual need in order to shorten waiting times.

The CDU wants to help young people with mental health problems. Help should be quick and easy to get. The Soulspace project should open in more places. People should wait less for therapy.

The CDU wants to continue, reliably secure, and further develop the Fast-Track City initiative. The goal is to end new HIV infections and AIDS in Berlin.

Fast-Track City is a program against HIV. The CDU wants to keep it going. Its funding should be secure. The goal is that no one gets HIV anymore.

The CDU wants to strengthen care in people's own homes and neighborhoods and set up a care emergency hotline available around the clock. The aim is to resolve acute crises in home care early and avoid unnecessary emergency calls.

Many people get care at home. The CDU wants to support this care. There should be an emergency phone line for care. It works day and night. It should bring help fast.

The CDU wants to attract and retain more nursing staff. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster, training and degree programs improved, and doctors and nurses freed from administrative work.

Care homes and hospitals need more nurses. The CDU wants to find more people for nursing. Degrees from other countries should count faster. Trainees should get more practice places. Nurses should do less paperwork.

The CDU wants to create a nursing chamber for Berlin. It is to develop the nursing profession, secure care standards and represent the interests of nurses.

The CDU wants a nursing chamber in Berlin. A chamber is a body that represents a profession. It should make sure care standards are good. It should also speak for nurses.

The CDU wants Berlin's hospitals to remain operational during disasters, cyberattacks, power outages or in a defense emergency. This includes staff and supply reserves and better IT security.

Hospitals should keep working in a crisis. For example, during a power outage or an attack. They need extra staff and medicine for this. Their computers should be better protected.

The CDU wants to fully implement the EU's reformed asylum system (GEAS) and house asylum seekers in central facilities until their claims are decided. The payment card for asylum seekers would stay permanently, and the party wants to act against dubious migration agencies.

The CDU wants faster asylum procedures. Asylum seekers should live in large central shelters. This lasts until a decision is made. The payment card should stay. It replaces cash. Dubious agencies should be stopped.

The CDU wants tougher enforcement of departure orders: more pre-deportation custody places, detention also for people repeatedly under criminal investigation, and deportations year-round even if not all family members are present. Leaking deportation details or helping people evade removal would be punished or lead to loss of funding.

The CDU wants more deportations. More people should be held before removal. Deportations should also happen in winter. They should go ahead even if family members are missing. Leaking deportation dates should be a crime.

The CDU wants stricter handling of naturalization. Only those who accept the democratic constitutional order and Israel's right to exist and meet all legal requirements would be naturalized. Grounds for refusal would be examined carefully and applied consistently.

The CDU wants stricter rules for German citizenship. People must accept democracy. They must also accept Israel's right to exist. All rules must be met. Offices should check carefully.

Through a "Berlin Creative Tech Program for Start-ups," the CDU wants to make it easier for international founders and tech professionals to come to Berlin. Visas are to be issued faster and access to the EU Blue Card widened.

The CDU wants to bring skilled workers from abroad to Berlin. This is about tech and creative jobs. Visas should come faster. More people should get the EU Blue Card. That card lets people work in the EU.

The CDU wants to revise the Partizipationsgesetz (participation law for people with a migration background) passed by the previous red-green-red coalition. In its view, the law conflicts with the Basic Law, under which public-sector hiring may be based only on aptitude, performance and qualifications.

Berlin has a law to include migrants more. It is called the participation law. The CDU wants to change it. It says public jobs should depend only on skills. Where someone comes from should not count.

The CDU wants to restrict access to social benefits for citizens of other EU countries and backs a recommendation of the welfare reform commission to that end. For EU citizens stranded in Berlin without prospects, it relies on return programs.

Some people from other EU countries live in Berlin without work or a home. The CDU wants to help them go back. They should get fewer social benefits. The rules on moving within the EU should be checked more strictly.

The CDU wants integration to follow the principle of support and obligation: more job-related language courses and state integration centers in every district, but also mandatory participation. In its view, anyone who wants to live in Berlin must learn German and actively integrate.

The CDU wants to help immigrants. But it also expects effort from them. Immigrants should learn German. Every district should get an integration center. There they find courses and advice.

The CDU rejects housing refugees in gyms and other public facilities. As long as their residence status is unresolved, they are to live centrally in large accommodation centers.

The CDU does not want refugees living in sports halls. The halls should stay free for sports and school. Refugees should live in large shelters. This applies until it is clear if they can stay.

The CDU wants to support international skilled workers and Berlin businesses with recruitment and integration and to speed up recognition of foreign vocational qualifications. At the same time, it wants to crack down on dubious recruitment agents.

Berlin needs skilled workers from abroad. The CDU wants to help them. Their degrees should be recognized faster. The CDU wants to stop dishonest job agents.

The CDU requires those seeking citizenship to clearly commit to Germany and its values. Naturalization should be revocable if false information was given, and documents are to be checked rigorously.

Some people want to become German citizens. The CDU says they must clearly support Germany. People who lie should be able to lose their citizenship again.

The CDU wants to fight violence against women and domestic violence based on the state action plan implementing the Istanbul Convention. This includes more shelter places and counseling, a tenth women's shelter, and prevention in daycare centers and schools.

The CDU wants to protect women better from violence. There should be more places in shelters. Berlin should get a tenth women's shelter. Children should learn early about limits and respect.

The CDU wants to improve the situation of people affected by domestic violence. Victims should be able to get out of shared leases more easily, and abusers should face consequences in custody and visitation law. In the program's view, it is the perpetrators who should feel ashamed, not the victims.

Some people face violence in their own home. The CDU wants to help them more. They should leave a shared lease more easily. They should find a new home quickly. A violent parent may lose contact with the child.

The CDU rejects gender-inclusive language forms, such as the gender asterisk, in government agencies and public institutions. In its view, administrative communication should be measured by correct, understandable German.

The CDU wants no gender-inclusive language in public offices. This means things like stars inside words. Offices should write clearly and simply. The CDU thinks gender language does not fit that.

The CDU wants Article 3 of the Basic Law, Germany's constitution, to be amended to include "sexual identity." Article 3 covers equality before the law and bans on discrimination.

Article 3 of the German constitution bans unfair treatment. It lists traits like sex or origin. The CDU wants to add one more trait. It is "sexual identity." This should better protect gay and lesbian people, for example.

The CDU wants to strengthen the petitions committee and cut overlaps with the state anti-discrimination office and the citizens' and police ombudsperson. It rejects further publicly funded special structures for individual groups.

The CDU is against all kinds of discrimination. But it wants fewer offices doing the same job. There should be no new offices just for single groups.

The CDU rejects one-sided state mandates on heating and wants to preserve competition among gas, district heating and heat pumps. Climate protection is to come mainly from expanding and decarbonizing district heating; it rules out shutting down the gas grid.

The CDU wants heating to stay affordable. Gas, district heating and heat pumps should all stay allowed. District heating should become cleaner. The gas network should not be shut down. The CDU wants to explore geothermal heat.

The CDU wants to combine security of supply, affordability and climate protection and review all parts of the energy system for cost cuts. It favors technology neutrality and wants to set up a hydrogen research cluster in Berlin.

Energy should be reliable and affordable. The CDU wants to lower costs in the energy system. It does not want to require one specific technology. Berlin should do more research on hydrogen.

The CDU wants to make Berlin more resilient to heat and extreme weather by raising the number of street trees to one million by 2040. It also plans to convert forests into mixed broadleaf stands and create a new urban forest on parts of Tempelhofer Feld.

Berlin should get more trees along streets. There should be one million by 2040. Trees cool the city when it is hot. Forests should get more leafy trees. A new forest should grow on Tempelhofer Feld.

The CDU wants heat protection built into planning and construction from the start, especially for daycare centers and schools. This includes shade, greenery, unsealed surfaces and free drinking water.

Schools and daycare centers should protect better against heat. There should be more shade. Schoolyards should be greener. Children should get free drinking water. There should be more drinking fountains.

The CDU wants renewable energy expansion to be driven mainly by markets and competition and rejects a solar mandate. Berlin's solar law is to be repealed because, in the party's view, the EU buildings directive already covers the relevant requirements.

The CDU does not want a solar duty. Berlin's solar law should go. Solar power should win on the market. Public roofs should still get solar panels. Permits should be faster.

The CDU rejects large wind turbines within Berlin's city limits and wants the federal land-area targets for wind power in city-states reformed. Instead it proposes joint solutions with Brandenburg, an energy treaty and decentralized combined heat and power.

No large wind turbines should be built in Berlin. Especially not in forests. Berlin should work together with Brandenburg. There should be a treaty for this. Small plants for power and heat should get support.

The CDU wants to keep taking a hard line against illegally dumped trash, pointing to the already tougher schedule of fines. It also wants to examine whether mobile video surveillance and artificial intelligence can identify littering hotspots faster.

People who dump trash should pay high fines. The fines are already higher. The CDU now wants to look at cameras. AI should help too. This should find trash spots faster.

The CDU wants to modernize waste disposal in public spaces: by 2030 Berlin should have about 30,000 litter bins, underground containers are to be expanded, and bulky waste collection improved. This is also meant to deprive rats of food.

There should be more trash cans. About 30,000 by 2030. Some bins should be under the ground. Bulky trash should be easier to pick up. Then rats find less food.

The CDU wants to limit the number of city pigeons, especially at shopping centers, train stations and busy places, in a way consistent with animal welfare. It relies on managed pigeon lofts, feeding bans and structural deterrents.

There should be fewer pigeons in the city. Mostly at train stations and malls. The birds should not be harmed. There should be managed pigeon houses. Feeding them should be banned.

The CDU wants to capture, store and use more rainwater and secure the long-term water supply. This includes cooperation with Brandenburg and Saxony, a Berlin water summit and cleaner waterways up to bathing water quality.

Berlin should store rainwater better. This is called a sponge city. The water supply should stay safe. Rivers and lakes should get cleaner. One day people should be able to swim there.

The CDU wants to abolish Berlin's list of dangerous dog breeds. Whether a dog is dangerous should instead be judged case by case based on its behavior, since in the party's view breed categories serve neither animal welfare nor safety.

Today some dog breeds count as dangerous. This list should go. An office should check each dog on its own. What counts is how the dog behaves. Owners should know about dogs.

The CDU wants to act against the illegal pet trade, which it says causes great animal suffering. Selling pets in public squares is to be banned and online platforms more closely monitored.

Some people sell pets illegally. The animals often suffer. Selling pets in public places should be banned. Websites should be checked more. Penalties should be higher.

The CDU wants to stop invasive non-native animal and plant species from spreading further in Berlin. The goal is to protect native ecosystems and biodiversity.

Some animals and plants are not from here. They spread fast and harm nature. They are called invasive species. The CDU wants to slow their spread in Berlin. This should protect local nature.

The CDU wants a 50 km/h speed limit to be the default again on Berlin's main roads wherever possible and safe. In the party's view, cars are indispensable for families, commuters, care services and tradespeople, so traffic flow on key routes must be maintained.

On big roads, people should be able to drive 50 km/h again. This should be the normal rule. Near schools and daycare centers, it should stay slower. The CDU says many people need their cars.

The CDU wants to stop funding new bollards and Kiezblocks (neighborhood through-traffic barriers) and avoid road closures. In its view, ambulances, fire trucks, garbage collection and deliveries must be able to reach every location. Instead, districts are to receive a uniform toolkit for traffic calming.

Bollards are posts that block streets for cars. The CDU wants to stop paying for new bollards. It also wants no new Kiezblocks. These are closed-off neighborhoods. Fire trucks and delivery vans should get through everywhere.

The CDU wants to invest significantly more in roads to reduce the maintenance backlog, with repairs taking priority over new construction. A special program is to repair or replace the most dilapidated bridges first, following the Bridges Master Plan.

Many roads and bridges in Berlin are broken. The CDU wants to spend more money on repairs. Repairing comes before building new. Bridges should get their own program.

The CDU wants to push ahead with extending the A100 city highway and building the Tangentialverbindung Ost (TVO, an eastern bypass road). In its view, this will relieve residential areas of through traffic and connect eastern Berlin better.

The CDU wants to extend the A100 city highway. A new road in the east, called TVO, should also be finished. This should take through traffic out of neighborhoods. Highways should get more noise protection.

The CDU wants to keep public parking spaces, simplify and fully digitize parking management across Berlin, and keep resident parking affordable. Districts are to provide loading and delivery zones for commercial traffic.

Street parking spaces should stay. Parking rules should be simpler across Berlin. Residents should be able to park cheaply. Tradespeople should get a digital parking permit for all of Berlin.

The CDU wants to boost staffing and funding for central construction site coordination to avoid repeated road closures. Those who finish construction on schedule are to receive a bonus, while delays are to have binding consequences.

Construction sites should be planned better. Then streets won't be closed again and again. Those who finish on time get a bonus. Those who are late face consequences.

The CDU wants more safe crossings, accessible curbs, repaired sidewalks and better lighting for pedestrians. E-scooters and rental bikes are to be technically blocked from sidewalks via geofencing and parked only at designated spots.

Walking should become safer. There should be more crosswalks and lowered curbs. E-scooters should not be able to ride on sidewalks. Technology should block this. People should park them only at fixed spots.

The CDU wants to prioritize repairing existing bike lanes and to build new ones only where, in its view, they are truly needed. The cycling plan, priority network and Mobility Act are to be reviewed and revised to balance all modes of transport.

Broken bike lanes should be repaired first. New bike lanes should only come where they are needed. Bike lane rules should fit each street. There should be more safe bike parking.

The CDU wants more visible security staff, more video surveillance and digital emergency call points in public transit. In the long run, it aims for a closed U-Bahn system and wants to test access controls on selected lines.

Buses and trains should become safer. There should be more staff and more cameras. Later, only people with tickets should enter the subway. This will be tested first on some lines.

The CDU wants to back the BVG's "stability before growth" course and expand the network selectively: U-Bahn extensions, more frequent S-Bahn service, rail projects with Brandenburg, and more express and high-capacity buses. Park-and-ride lots and mobility hubs in outer districts are to make transfers easier for commuters.

Buses and trains should get better. The subway should get longer lines. The S-Bahn should run more often. On the city's edge, there should be more parking at stations.

The CDU wants to use public-private partnerships to speed up planning and construction of transport infrastructure. Private expertise is to help with general contracting, building and operating individual transit lines, and modular bridges.

Private companies should help build transport projects. This should make things faster. Companies could also build and run single train lines. One example is a maglev train.

The CDU wants to make Berlin and Brandenburg a pilot region for autonomous driving in freight and passenger transport. It wants a technology-neutral shift to climate-friendly mobility, with more charging points and hydrogen as a complement to electric vehicles.

Berlin and Brandenburg should test self-driving vehicles. There should be more charging stations for electric cars. Hydrogen should also power vehicles. For example trucks, buses and ships.

The CDU wants to develop BER airport into eastern Germany's main aviation hub by attracting more direct and long-haul routes. At the federal level, it is pushing for lower aviation taxes and fees, above all a significant cut to the aviation tax.

BER airport should offer more flights. There should be more direct and long-distance flights. The CDU wants lower taxes on flying. The federal government decides this.

The CDU wants to crack down harder on digital violence, especially against women. Psychological and digital violence should be fully covered by criminal law, and legal gaps, for example around deepfakes, should be closed.

Violence also happens online. The CDU wants to do more against it. This affects women most of all. Emotional abuse should also be a crime. Fake pictures and videos should be punishable.

The CDU wants data protection in Berlin to be practical and innovation-friendly and rejects what it sees as excessive interpretations. Whatever EU law allows should also be possible in Berlin.

Data protection should slow down companies less. The rules should apply the same way everywhere. What the EU allows, Berlin should allow too. The CDU wants a balance between privacy and business.

The CDU considers fast internet to be in the overriding public interest and wants to speed up network expansion with uniform digital permitting. Fiber is to reach all the way into homes, and Berlin is to prepare for future standards such as 6G.

Berlin should get faster internet. Fiber cables should reach every home. Permits should be digital and faster. Berlin should also get ready for new mobile networks.

The CDU wants to bundle every step of founding a company on one central digital platform. Grant applications are to be handled digitally, pre-screened automatically and decided within 14 days.

Founders should do everything in one place. It should all work online. Requests for funding should be checked quickly. There should be an answer after 14 days.

The CDU wants to continue digitizing Berlin's administration, both for citizens and internally. Beyond the more than 450 digital services, internal processes are to go digital too, and the party commits to Berlin's open-source strategy.

Many public services in Berlin are already online. The CDU wants to make even more digital. Work inside the offices should also go digital. Berlin should use open software for this. This is called open source.

The CDU wants to give Berlin's police more staff, better equipment and renovated buildings. Officers are to be freed from paperwork so they can focus on their core duties.

The CDU wants a stronger police force in Berlin. There should be more officers. Their equipment should be better. Run-down police stations should be fixed. Police should have less paperwork.

The CDU wants police to be able to designate areas as high-crime locations more quickly so they can stop people there without specific suspicion. All operational units are also to be equipped with Tasers.

The police should get more powers. They should be able to label places as dangerous faster. There they may check people without suspicion. All officers on duty should get Tasers. A Taser is an electric shock device.

The CDU wants to expand video surveillance at all high-crime locations, including the use of intelligent systems. An anti-theft program is to put cameras in busy public places.

The CDU wants more cameras in Berlin. They should be at all places with a lot of crime. Smart computer systems should help too. Busy squares and bike racks should also get cameras.

The CDU wants to revise Berlin's state anti-discrimination law so it goes no further than federal rules. In the party's view, the law puts police officers under general suspicion.

Berlin has its own law against discrimination. The CDU wants to change this law. It should not be stricter than the federal rules. The CDU says the law distrusts police too much.

Through the Bundesrat, the CDU wants higher minimum sentences for attacks on police and emergency workers. Foreign offenders, including EU citizens, are to be expelled and deported faster, and repeat offenders held in pretrial detention sooner.

People who attack police or rescuers should get harsher punishments. Foreign offenders should be deported faster. This also applies to people from the EU. Repeat offenders should go to jail faster.

The CDU wants a dedicated police framework to protect energy, transport and communications networks against sabotage. The program points to the attack on Berlin's power grid as the background.

Power grids, transport and phone networks matter to everyone. The CDU wants to protect them better from attacks. Police should be there more often. Cameras should help.

The CDU wants to equip Berlin's fire service with modern technology, new vehicles and stations, and to complete the joint police and fire control center. Volunteer fire brigades and relief organizations are to find it easier to drive heavy vehicles.

The fire service should get modern technology. This includes drones and firefighting robots. There should be new vehicles and new stations. Volunteers should find it easier to drive big trucks.

The CDU wants to make places where people feel unsafe less threatening through better lighting and clearer paths. The Nora emergency app is to be piloted with the BVG for public transit, and entry checks at outdoor pools are to stay.

Some places make people feel afraid. The CDU wants them brighter and easier to see. An emergency app should be tested on buses and trains. Outdoor pools should keep checking IDs.

The CDU wants electronic ankle monitors used more often for high-risk offenders to enforce no-contact orders. At the federal level, criminal law is to include exploiting physical superiority as an aggravating element.

Dangerous offenders should wear ankle monitors more often. This device shows where the offender is. Victims should get a warning when the offender comes close. Violence against weaker people should be punished more strictly.

The CDU wants to break up drug networks and clan structures and to introduce an anonymous electronic tip system at the police. Modeled on Kottbusser Tor, a police station is to open at Leopoldplatz.

The CDU wants to crack down on drug dealing. People should be able to give police tips anonymously. This would work online. A new police station should open at Leopoldplatz.

The CDU wants to ban street prostitution throughout the city. It cites crime, neglect and burdens on residents in areas such as the Kurfürstenkiez and around Nollendorfplatz.

The CDU wants to ban prostitution on the street in all of Berlin. It says some neighborhoods suffer from crime because of it. Residents are affected. The state should not pay for sex boxes.

The CDU wants to better protect energy, water, IT networks, transport routes and other key facilities from cyberattacks and sabotage. A comprehensive strategy, more surveillance and significantly higher investment are meant to achieve this. Sensitive information about these facilities should no longer become public through transparency rules.

Power, water and internet are very important for the city. The CDU wants to protect them better. The danger is attacks and sabotage. There should be more video cameras. The state should spend more money on this.

The CDU wants to strengthen civil protection and disaster management in Berlin. It is considering a central state agency with a round-the-clock situation center, wants to expand sirens, increase funding for relief organizations and be able to call on all state employees in a crisis.

The CDU wants Berlin to be better prepared for disasters. There may be a new office just for this. There should be more sirens. Aid groups should get more money. In an emergency, all state workers should have to help.

The CDU wants to confiscate illegal profits of criminal clans and organized crime even more consistently. To that end, seizing funds such as those moved through hawala banking should become easier, and prosecutors, police and forensics should get more staff and equipment.

Criminal clans make a lot of illegal money. The CDU wants to take this money away. This should become even easier. Police and prosecutors should get more staff. There should be more checks on businesses.

The CDU wants unauthorized handling of semi-automatic handguns to be punished as a separate felony, citing what it sees as rising gun use in public. Organized trafficking in prescription drugs is also to be punished more harshly, and organized crime offenders are to be excluded from open prisons.

Guns are used more often in Berlin. The CDU wants harsher punishment. Illegally owning a semi-automatic pistol should be a serious crime. Illegal trade in medicine should also be punished harder. Gang members should not go to open prisons.

The CDU wants to give investigators more technical tools against organized crime, including AI analysis and the retention of IP addresses. The domestic intelligence agency would also be brought into the fight against organized crime, and witness protection would be strengthened.

The CDU wants to fight gang crime harder. Police should use more technology. This includes artificial intelligence. IP addresses should be stored. These are numbers that identify devices online. The domestic intelligence service should also help.

The CDU wants to crack down harder on organized welfare fraud, fake residence registrations, and abuse of EU freedom of movement. Automated data matching, more joint operations by several agencies, and a new financial investigations center are planned.

The CDU wants to stop welfare fraud. Agencies should compare data automatically. Expensive cars owned by benefit recipients should be checked. Several offices should inspect together more often. A new center should fight money laundering.

The CDU wants to amend Berlin's law on freedom of assembly and restore "public order" as a criterion. Assemblies could be restricted, banned, or dispersed earlier when there are signs of violence. In the party's view, this protects peaceful protesters.

The CDU wants to change the law on protests. Police should be able to ban or end protests earlier. This applies when violence is likely. Masked or armed people should be stopped early. Videos should be stored longer.

The CDU wants to give Berlin's domestic intelligence agency expanded powers against extremism, including examining access to communications data and public video footage. It cites the left-wing extremist attack on the power grid in January 2026 among its reasons and plans to re-establish a unit on left-wing extremism.

The CDU wants a stronger Verfassungsschutz. This office watches extremists. It should get more rights. It may be allowed to use chat data and videos. A judge should control this. A unit against left-wing extremism should come back.

The CDU wants to make public calls for an Islamist theocracy, Sharia law, or a caliphate in Germany a criminal offense. It also wants to ban the association running the Al-Nur Mosque in Neukölln, which is monitored by domestic intelligence.

The CDU wants a new ban. Calling publicly for an Islamist religious state should be a crime. This also applies to Sharia. That is a religious law. A mosque association in Neukölln should be banned.

The CDU wants to be able to ban antisemitic assemblies such as the Al-Quds march in advance and to expel foreign nationals who commit antisemitic crimes. At universities, antisemitic incidents would be punished up to expulsion, and Jewish life and prevention work would receive lasting funding.

The CDU wants to fight hatred of Jews harder. Protests against Jews or Israel should be banned in advance. Foreigners who commit such crimes should have to leave. At universities, students could be expelled. Support programs should get steady money.

The CDU wants to greatly expand fast-track criminal proceedings and make them the norm for street crime. Hearings should take place the same day or within ten days if possible. The justice system is also to make more use of IT and artificial intelligence.

The CDU wants faster punishment. Street crimes should be handled very quickly. A court should decide on the same day or within ten days. Courts should use more computers and AI.

The CDU wants to modernize Berlin's prisons, add more cells, and better protect prison staff. Judges would be able to work voluntarily until age 68, and the CDU wants to keep the Neutrality Act, which bans religious symbols in the courtroom.

The CDU wants more prison spaces. Prisons should be modernized. Staff there should be better protected. Judges may work until 68 if they want. Religious symbols stay banned in court.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for children to be criminally responsible from age 12 instead of 14, provided they are mature enough. A court procedure would order educational measures early and bindingly.

The CDU wants a new age limit for punishment. Today it starts at 14. In the future it should start at 12. The child must be mature enough. A court should order educational steps early.

The CDU supports video surveillance on the grounds and in the complexes of state-owned housing companies. In its view, modern technology can help detect and prevent burglary, vandalism and illegal dumping early.

The CDU wants cameras in state-owned housing. The cameras should stop break-ins. They should also help against damage and illegal trash. Housing complexes should also be easier to find your way in.

The CDU wants to give Berlin's public order offices (Ordnungsämter) more staff, better equipment and additional powers. Over time they should operate around the clock where possible, taking pressure off the police.

The public order offices should get more staff. They should get better equipment too. For example, body cameras. They should be allowed to do more than today. This should help the police.

The CDU wants to consistently pursue illegal graffiti and have antisemitic, racist or extremist graffiti removed within 24 hours at the latest. At the same time, legal spaces for street art are to be promoted.

Illegal graffiti should be pursued. Hate graffiti should be removed fast. At the latest after 24 hours. There should also be legal spaces for street art. Paths should get better lighting too.

To better solve anti-queer crimes, the CDU wants comprehensive video surveillance at crime hotspots and on public transit, with footage stored for at least 96 hours. It also wants more visible police, better lighting and emergency call points.

Crimes against queer people should be solved more often. The CDU wants more cameras for this. They should be at dangerous places. Also on buses and trains. Videos should be kept at least four days. There should be more police on the streets.

The CDU wants to fight Islamism, which it classifies as an extremist political ideology, with the full force of the rule of law. It wants to abolish Berlin's day of action and remembrance against anti-Muslim hostility.

Islamism is an extreme political idea. The CDU wants to act hard against it. Berlin has a day against hostility toward Muslims. The CDU wants to end this day.

The CDU wants a democracy clause to ensure that organizations opposed to the constitutional order or holding hostile views toward groups of people receive no public funding. Anti-constitutional associations would lose charitable tax status, and public employees would be checked for loyalty to the constitution.

The CDU wants state money only for groups that support the constitution. A rule should make sure of this. Hostile groups should lose tax benefits. Public employees should be checked. They must support democracy.

The CDU wants to define the tasks of student governments more precisely in the higher education law and focus them on study-related matters. Mandatory fees are only to be collected if voter turnout is sufficient. The CDU justifies this by saying some bodies are used for extremist agitation.

Students elect their own councils at universities. These councils get money from required fees. The CDU wants to limit what they do. They should focus on studying. They should only get money if enough students vote.

The CDU wants to significantly scale back Berlin state laws that go further than federal or EU law. It cites the state anti-discrimination law, the public procurement law and the law on freedom of assembly as examples.

Berlin has its own laws. Some go further than federal or EU rules. The CDU thinks this creates too much red tape. It wants to cut these rules a lot. Examples are laws against discrimination and on protests.

The CDU wants to continue the administrative reform and remove overlapping responsibilities and what it sees as unnecessary bureaucracy. Participation formats, advisory boards, commissioners and parliamentary reporting duties are also to be reviewed and simplified.

In Berlin, several offices often handle the same task. The CDU wants to change that. Each task should have one clear owner. Many committees and special officers will also be reviewed. This should make the administration faster.

The CDU wants adequate and reliable funding for Berlin's districts, which it sees as the backbone of citizen-oriented administration. The basis is the state's connexity implementation law, and a similar rule should apply in relations with the federal government.

Berlin has twelve districts. They work close to the people. The CDU wants to give them enough money, reliably. Whoever hands over a task should pay for it. This should also apply between the federal and state levels.

The CDU wants more internal competition and new incentives within the administration. An annual performance contest with goals, metrics, public awards and bonuses is to be introduced.

The CDU wants a contest inside the administration. Each year there are set goals. Offices are measured on how well they reach them. The best teams win an award. Their leaders and teams also get a cash bonus.

The CDU aims to reduce positions in all Senate departments by at least 2 percent a year and to deploy staff more flexibly. Instead of new positions, task reviews, merging functions and artificial intelligence are to ease the workload.

The CDU wants fewer jobs in the Senate departments. Each year, at least 2 percent should go. Staff should be used more flexibly. There should be fewer special officers. AI programs should help with routine work.

The CDU wants to introduce central talent management for Berlin's administration and continue efforts to recruit skilled staff. Civil servant pay is to be restructured and kept in line with that of salaried public employees.

The CDU wants to find and support good people for the administration. A central unit should do this. Career changers should find it easier to start. Civil servants should earn as much as other public employees. Pay raises should also apply to civil servants.

The CDU wants to make volunteering more attractive, for instance through help with travel costs and free use of rooms. It sees volunteer work as a pillar of community life in Berlin.

Many people help others for free. This is called volunteering. The CDU wants to support these people more. They should get easier access to buses and trains. They should use rooms for free.

The CDU wants to fund projects that teach democratic values and strengthen social cohesion. Funded organizations are to clearly commit to the Basic Law (Germany's constitution) and oppose extremism and antisemitism. The impact of projects is to be measured more closely.

The CDU wants to support projects for democracy. These projects should bring people together. Anyone who gets money must support the Basic Law. That is Germany's constitution. The projects must also stand against hate and antisemitism.

The CDU wants to strengthen the European single market and deepen integration where it sees fit, for example in the defense industry and internal security. At the same time, EU rules in areas such as data protection and environmental law are to be cut back. Cohesion funds are to remain managed at the regional level.

The CDU wants to help shape the EU. Berlin trades a lot with other EU countries. The EU should work together more on security. But companies should face fewer EU rules. EU funding should still be handed out in Berlin.

The CDU wants Berlin to host modern air defense systems under the European Sky Shield Initiative and, as the capital, to get its own protective shield. In addition, a home defense regiment should protect vital infrastructure in crises.

The CDU wants to protect Berlin from air attacks. Modern defense systems should come to the city. This is part of a European plan. There should also be a home defense unit. It should protect important facilities.

The CDU wants to abolish the civil clause at Berlin universities so that research can also serve the security interests of Germany and NATO. The Bundeswehr (German armed forces) should become more visible in Berlin, for example through public swearing-in ceremonies and youth officers visiting schools.

Some universities do no research for the military. This rule is called the civil clause. The CDU wants to remove it. The army should be more visible in Berlin. State workers should join reserve training more easily.

The CDU wants Berlin to capture a much larger share of nationwide investment in security and defense innovation. To that end, universities and research institutes are to open up to research with both civilian and military uses.

Germany spends a lot on defense. Berlin should get more of that money. Universities should also do research the military can use. This is called dual-use.

The CDU wants to keep supporting Ukraine because, in its view, Ukraine is also defending Germany's freedom and security. Sister-city ties with Kyiv, Tel Aviv and Warsaw and cooperation with Poland are to be deepened. Berlin is also to open more offices abroad together with Brandenburg.

The CDU wants to keep helping Ukraine. The CDU says Ukraine also protects our freedom. Berlin has partner cities like Kyiv and Tel Aviv. These ties should grow stronger. Berlin should have more offices abroad. They help companies trade.

The CDU wants to reinstate the free-admission museum Sunday within the current legislative term. In its view, culture, leisure, and sports should be affordable for everyone.

Berlin used to have a Sunday with free museum entry. The CDU wants to bring this day back. Culture should be affordable for everyone. People with little money should also visit museums.

The CDU wants to preserve the diversity of Berlin's culture even in tight budget times and secure affordable workspaces for artists. Culture should be accessible to everyone, and Berlin should become Europe's leading cultural hub.

Berlin has a lot of culture, like theaters and museums. The CDU wants to keep it. Artists should have cheap places to work. Culture should be open to everyone.

The CDU wants to support access to culture for everyone. Programs like "KulturLeben Berlin," which let certain groups buy heavily discounted tickets, are to be expanded, especially to children and teenagers.

The CDU wants everyone to enjoy culture. A program called "KulturLeben Berlin" already exists. It gives some people very cheap tickets. The CDU wants more children and teens to get them too.

The CDU wants to keep funding top-tier culture and secure Berlin's cultural infrastructure long term, including renovating major venues. The CDU sees high culture as a draw for the city and an expression of a free society. A transformation fund is to cut costs through cooperation.

The CDU wants to keep supporting operas, theaters and museums. Important buildings will be renovated. Cultural venues should work together more. That way they can save money. There will also be one shared site for tickets.

The CDU wants to promote artificial intelligence as a creative tool in culture and make the AI conference for the cultural sector a permanent event. Culture and the creative industries are also to be linked more closely, with more practical funding guidelines.

The CDU wants to use artificial intelligence in culture. People call it AI for short. There was a conference about AI and culture. It should happen regularly. Cultural businesses that earn money should get funding more easily.

The CDU wants to strengthen district music schools and keep phasing out freelance contracts. In the next legislative term, 90 percent of staff are to be permanently employed. At the federal level, freelance work is to be made legally secure.

The CDU wants to support music schools in the districts. Many teachers there work as freelancers. That means they have no steady contract. Soon, 9 out of 10 teachers should have steady jobs.

The CDU wants to work with the districts to turn neighborhood libraries into places for meeting and learning, and to allow Sunday opening. The Zentral- und Landesbibliothek (Central and State Library) is to get a single new location, preferably in the department store building at Alexanderplatz.

The CDU thinks libraries are very important. Neighborhood libraries should become places to meet. Libraries should be allowed to open on Sundays. The big state library should move to one place. The CDU suggests the department store at Alexanderplatz.

The CDU wants to open up new cultural venues: the former Tempelhof Airport building with private capital, a "House of Jazz," and S-Bahn arches for young artists. Sites for clubs and the creative industries are to be secured early and through zoning.

The CDU wants more places for culture. The old Tempelhof Airport should become a culture venue. Private companies should help pay for it. Young artists should show work under S-Bahn train arches. Clubs should keep their places in the city.

The CDU wants to secure remembrance institutions permanently in the state budget. The uniqueness of the Shoah and the reckoning with National Socialism and the SED dictatorship of East Germany are to stay in public awareness. Several memorial sites are to be secured and expanded.

The CDU wants people to remember the crimes of the Nazis. It also wants people to remember injustice in East Germany. Memorial sites should get steady money from the state. Young people should learn that freedom and democracy need protecting.

The CDU wants to keep traces of Berlin's history from the Electorate of Brandenburg, Prussia and the Weimar Republic visible. This includes caring for monuments and keeping historic street names instead of renaming them.

The CDU wants to take care of old monuments in Berlin. They remind people of the time of Prussia. Old street names from that time should stay. They should not get new names.

The CDU backs public broadcasting and wants to continue the reforms started after the rbb scandal. The state treaty governing rbb is to be reviewed regularly for effectiveness and thrift. Public broadcasting is to concentrate on its core tasks again.

The CDU wants to keep public broadcasting. There was a scandal at the broadcaster rbb. After that, new rules came. These rules should be checked often. Broadcasting should save money and focus on what matters most.

The CDU wants to strengthen Berlin as a leading film and cinema hub and is pushing for renewed nationwide cinema funding for technical upgrades. The video game industry is also to keep growing.

The CDU wants to support movie theaters in Berlin. The federal government should pay for this again. Theaters could then buy new technology. Video game companies should also grow.

The CDU wants Berlin to bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and supports a Berlin-Brandenburg bid for EXPO 2035. It sees these as drivers for urban development, infrastructure and the economy.

The CDU wants to bring the Olympic Games to Berlin. A world fair should also come in 2035. It is called EXPO. The big World Pride festival should come too. This should help the city and its businesses.

The CDU wants to expand the program for renovating sports facilities and secure its funding long term, citing a large investment backlog. Facilities are to be upgraded for energy efficiency and year-round use, and funding for elite sports aligned with the federal standard.

Many sports fields and gyms are run down. The CDU wants to fix them. There should be lasting money for this. The facilities should use less energy. Children should be able to train in winter too.

The CDU wants to critically review the management and structure of the Berliner Bäder-Betriebe (Berlin's public pool operator) so that pools open reliably and have enough capacity. Existing pools are to be renovated for energy efficiency and new pools built.

Swimming pools should be open reliably. The CDU wants to check the Berlin pool company closely. This company runs the public pools. Old pools should be renovated. New pools should be built where many people want to swim.

The CDU wants to spot and support athletic talent earlier and turn Berlin into Europe's leading sports city. Young athletes should be able to combine competitive sports and school.

The CDU wants to find sports talent early and support it. Young athletes should be able to combine sports and school. Berlin should become the best sports city in Europe.

The CDU wants to give more recognition to volunteers in sports clubs, cut red tape and simplify funding procedures. Clubs are to be supported in going digital and using artificial intelligence.

Many people volunteer in sports clubs. The CDU wants to honor this more. There should be less paperwork. Clubs should get help with going digital.

The CDU wants to strengthen professional sports as a flagship for Berlin and support major clubs' construction projects. Cost-effectiveness, sustainability and residents' interests are to be taken into account.

The CDU wants to support pro sports clubs in Berlin. It wants to help with new stadiums. Costs and the environment should count too.

The CDU wants to strengthen esports in Berlin and position the city as an esports capital. A state-backed academy is to help set up clubs and an amateur league.

Esports means competitive video gaming. The CDU wants to support esports in Berlin. An esports academy should help clubs. Berlin should host big esports events.

The CDU commits to the existing model of cooperation between church and state. In its view, religions should have a strong public voice, and interfaith dialogue should be promoted.

In Germany, state and church are separate. But they work together. The CDU wants to keep it that way. Religions should be heard in public life.