CDU: program for the 2023 Bremen state election

The CDU wants to systematically review and scrap regulations and to simplify and speed up dealings between businesses and the administration. In its view, the state should set the framework rather than act as an entrepreneur itself, and Bremen should attract new companies.

The CDU wants fewer rules for businesses. It wants to check all regulations and drop the ones not needed. Government offices should work faster. Companies should want to come to Bremen. The state should not run businesses itself.

The CDU wants to develop considerably more commercial land and keep 100 hectares ready for immediate use at all times. In its view, Bremen currently cannot offer suitable sites to companies that want to move there. Businesses should still be able to buy land rather than only lease it long-term.

The CDU wants to prepare more land for companies. There should always be 100 hectares free. The CDU says new companies often find no space in Bremen today. Companies should also be allowed to buy land.

The CDU wants to further develop and extend the major commercial sites in Bremen and Bremerhaven. It names the Hansalinie business park, the Bremer Industrie-Park, the freight logistics center (GVZ), and the "Lune Delta" site. Bremen should also work more closely with neighboring municipalities in Lower Saxony on commercial land.

The CDU wants to expand large business parks. More companies should be able to settle there. This applies to Bremen and Bremerhaven. Bremen should also work with nearby towns in Lower Saxony.

The CDU wants denser development in the Technology Park and the Airport-Stadt district, focusing on tax-paying companies. In Bremen-Grohn, a "Science Park" is to be developed with Constructor University as a complementary site.

The CDU wants to fit more companies into the Technology Park. The same goes for the Airport-Stadt area near the airport. A new science park should be built in Bremen-Grohn. Young medical technology and biotech companies should start there.

The CDU wants to put innovation policy at the center of economic policy and strengthen services for start-ups and would-be founders. Support would focus on eight economic clusters where the party sees Bremen as already strong. More women and people with a migration background are to be encouraged to found companies.

The CDU wants to give more support to new companies and new ideas. It wants to focus on eight areas of the economy. These include space, the port economy, and artificial intelligence. More women should also start companies.

The CDU wants to create a Bremen start-up fund so that young companies can get money to grow. A second fund would finance patent applications and commercialization, mainly for inventions from universities and research institutes.

The CDU wants to set up a pool of money for young companies. Banks, insurers, and citizens can put money in. A second pool of money should help with patents. A patent protects an invention from being copied.

The CDU wants a skilled-worker drive to bring more young people into the trades and to strengthen dual vocational training. The Meisterpflicht (master craftsman requirement) is to stay, and master training would continue to be supported with a 4,000-euro bonus.

The CDU wants to help the trades find more skilled workers. Vocational schools should be better equipped. The master craftsman rule should stay. People who earn the master title should still get 4,000 euros.

The CDU wants to use public contracts more as a tool to support the regional economy. For smaller contracts, procurement offices should preferably approach local firms and not automatically pick the cheapest bid. At the same time, the more than 80 procurement offices would be merged into one and procedures digitalized.

The CDU wants local companies to get more government contracts. The cheapest offer should not always win. Bremen has more than 80 offices that award contracts today. The CDU wants to turn them into one office. Everything should be done digitally.

The CDU wants to remove requirements from Bremen's Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (collective-wage compliance and procurement act) that are not directly related to the contract. In the party's view, such rules make procurement more bureaucratic, slower, and costlier because many firms withdraw.

The CDU wants to simplify Bremen's law on public contracts. Some rules have nothing to do with the contract itself. These rules should go. The CDU says more companies will then take part again.

The CDU wants to apply a "one in, two out" principle to state legislation: for every new rule, two existing ones would have to go. Newly founded companies would be free of red tape in their first year and face only minimal burdens in the second.

The CDU wants fewer rules for companies. For every new state rule, two old rules should go. New companies should have no red tape in their first year. In the second year there should be only a little.

The CDU wants to make greater use of tourism as an economic driver in Bremen and Bremerhaven and increase overnight stays. Funding for tourism promotion and marketing is to rise and be made permanent. Revenue from the hotel bed tax is to go entirely to this purpose.

The CDU wants more tourists to visit Bremen and Bremerhaven. There should be more money for advertising and events, year after year. Hotels pay a bed tax for their guests. That money should all go to tourism.

The CDU wants to attract more cruise passengers to Bremerhaven and build a new multipurpose terminal there. Passengers should spend more time ashore, which the platform expects to benefit the image and economy of both cities.

The CDU wants more cruise ships to come to Bremerhaven. A new terminal should be built for this. A terminal is where passengers get on and off. Passengers should stay longer in the cities.

The CDU wants to create a central point of contact for visitors to Bremen in the lower hall of the town hall. The historic sights of the city center are also to be better linked, and the digital visitor information system developed further.

The CDU wants one central place for visitors in Bremen. It should be in the lower hall of the town hall. The old sights in the city center should be better connected. The app for tourists should do more.

The CDU wants to continuously modernize public port infrastructure and work off the repair backlog step by step under a strategy. The ports are to remain competitive as universal ports after, according to the platform, losing market share to the western ports.

The CDU wants to renew the ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Quay walls, locks, and bridges should be repaired or rebuilt. This should help the ports compete with other ports.

The CDU wants to support shipyards in shifting to specialized shipbuilding and secure Bremen as a base for shipping companies. At the federal level it will push to keep existing tax and subsidy advantages for ships under the German or an EU flag.

The CDU wants to help shipyards and shipping companies in Bremen. Tax benefits for German ships should stay. Training for jobs in shipping should also get better.

The CDU supports plans by private industry and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for a floating launch platform for small rockets in the North Sea. Bremerhaven is to be the home port; the platform points to a lack of launch sites in Europe and dependence on Russian and US rockets.

Companies are planning a launch site for small rockets on the North Sea. The rockets carry satellites into space. The CDU supports this plan. Bremerhaven should be the port for this launch site.

The CDU wants to keep and expand the outdoor dining areas created during the COVID period. Funding is to be provided, and fees for 2023 and 2024 are to be waived.

The CDU wants to keep tables and chairs outside restaurants for good. Many of them were set up during COVID. Restaurant owners should pay no fees for this in 2023 and 2024. There should also be funding.

The CDU wants to make Bremen-Nord more attractive with an action plan and move it to the center of the Senate's work. It plans new shops, culture, business settlement, and the purchase of the "Grohner Düne" housing complex.

The CDU wants to do more for Bremen-Nord. There should be new shops and more culture there. Companies should set up there. Then there are more jobs close to home.

The CDU wants to redesign the center of Bremerhaven around the purchased Karstadt building and open it toward the Havenwelten waterfront. The university of applied sciences is to grow and contribute more to a lively downtown.

The CDU wants to redesign downtown Bremerhaven. Shops and a market hall should be built on the Karstadt site. The local university should get more places for students. Parking should stay cheap.

The CDU wants to launch a strategy for a sustainable food industry together with the other northern German states and give the sector more support. At the same time, less food is to be thrown away, especially in public cafeterias and large kitchens.

The CDU wants to support companies that make food. It wants to make a plan with other northern states for this. Also, less food should end up in the trash. Leftover food should go to food banks, for example.

The CDU wants existing rules to be suspended for limited periods and in specific areas so that new technologies and business models can be tried out. According to the platform, innovations often fail because of old regulations.

The CDU wants test areas for new technology. Some rules would not apply there for a while. Companies and researchers could then try new things, such as drones or self-driving cars.

The CDU wants to make Bremen and its surrounding region a leading hub for medicine, nursing and the health industry. An AI cooperation network, an incubator for health start-ups and the use of health data for research are meant to contribute to this.

The CDU wants to make Bremen a strong place for health companies. Universities, researchers and investors should work together on artificial intelligence. Young companies should get support. Researchers should be allowed to use health data. Data protection rules should still apply.

The CDU wants all businesses in Bremen to be able to be founded entirely online, as is already possible for skilled trades. The business account, data exchange with authorities, and public procurement are also to become fully digital.

Starting a company often takes paper forms and office visits. The CDU wants to change that. People should be able to start any company fully online. Government contracts should also be handled digitally.

The CDU wants to mobilize more workers within the state. Better childcare is meant to lower the part-time rate, unemployed people are to be able to gain qualifications, and people with disabilities and refugees are to find work more easily.

Bremen lacks skilled workers. The CDU wants better childcare. Then parents can work more, especially women. People without jobs should be able to earn new qualifications. Refugees should learn German quickly and be able to work.

The CDU rejects a mandatory levy on companies for a training fund and would abolish it if it is introduced. In the party's view there are enough apprenticeship places, and a levy would burden firms financially and bureaucratically without creating new places.

The CDU is against a training levy. That is money companies must pay into a fund for training. The CDU says there are enough training places. The levy only costs companies money and time.

The CDU wants to draw up a strategy against loneliness and link it to efforts against poverty. According to the platform, people of all generations are affected, but so far this has been recognized almost only among older people.

Many people are lonely. The CDU wants to change that. It wants to link help against loneliness with help against poverty. For example, there should be more low-cost lunch offers. Young and old people should help each other.

The CDU wants to replace the state government's 2007 plan for the elderly with a new "Masterplan Seniorenpolitik" (senior policy master plan) and give older people more say. Older people should be able to live self-determined, active, and dignified lives.

The CDU wants a new plan for older people. The old plan is from 2007. Seniors should help write the new plan. There should be a seniors' parliament in Bremen. Older people should be able to reach important places easily.

The CDU names full employment as its goal and wants the state's labor market policy to focus more on getting people into jobs. The Beschäftigungspolitisches Aktionsprogramm (BAP, the state's employment action program) is to be reformed and every measure checked for its effect. In the program's view, clear goals and evaluations have been missing so far.

The CDU wants everyone to have a job. People who work should have more money than people who do not. The state has a program to help people find work. The CDU wants to change this program. It wants to check every measure: Does it really get people into work?

The CDU wants to bring Bremen's poverty rate down from more than 28 percent to at least the national average of 16 percent. To do so, it plans a strategy across all departments focused on education, work and the economy, led by the Senate Chancellery.

Many people in Bremen are poor. The CDU wants to change that. Poverty should be no higher than in the rest of Germany. All departments should work together on this. The Senate Chancellery should lead the work.

The CDU wants to launch a vocational training push and redirect employment support toward training with a formal qualification, continuing education and retraining. A "skills monitoring" system is to match existing skills with what businesses need.

The CDU wants to do more for job training. People without work should learn a trade or get more training. The state should check: What can people do? And what do companies need? The courses should fit these needs.

The CDU wants to link the social affairs department more closely with other departments and introduce controlling for social measures. Ineffective measures are to be suspended and effective ones given more money. In the program's view, savings in the largest single budget are not antisocial.

The CDU wants to organize the social affairs office differently. It should work more closely with other offices. The state should check closely which kinds of help work. Help that does not work should stop. Good help should get more money.

The CDU wants to support people in need individually and enable them to live self-determined lives. Case managers are to coordinate all state assistance, and support is to continue even after someone has been placed in a job. Open youth work is also to be strengthened.

The CDU wants to support people one by one. One fixed person should organize all help from the state. There should still be advice after someone starts a job. Companies should get benefits if they hire difficult cases. Youth centers should get more support.

In talks on the national port strategy, the CDU wants the federal government to raise its financial compensation for seaports and adjust it regularly in the future. The coastal states are also to coordinate their port policies more closely.

The federal government pays the states money for seaports. This amount has been the same since 2005. The CDU wants the federal government to pay more. The amount should rise regularly in the future. The coastal states should work together more closely.

The CDU wants to use a subsidy program to waive the real estate transfer tax for families who buy a home in 2024 and 2025. The same is to apply to buyers of older buildings in need of renovation. The platform cites higher interest rates and building costs and calls home ownership the best retirement provision.

People who buy a house pay a tax. It is called the real estate transfer tax. The CDU wants to waive this tax for families in 2024 and 2025. This should also apply to buyers of old houses that need repairs. More families should be able to afford a home.

The CDU wants to review every item of spending in Bremen's budget and make day-to-day administration more frugal. Residents would be able to submit savings proposals and share in the results.

The CDU wants to check all of Bremen's spending. Bremen should be more careful with money. People should send in ideas for saving. If an idea saves money, they get a share.

The CDU wants no tax increases in Bremen and a freeze on fee increases. Through relief for the middle class and for young families buying homes in need of renovation, it aims to counter out-migration and strengthen the tax base through growing cities.

The CDU does not want to raise taxes. Fees should not go up either. Young families should pay less tax when they buy a home that needs a lot of repair. This should keep more families in Bremen.

The CDU wants to stick to the Schuldenbremse (constitutional debt brake) and keep new borrowing to a minimum. It cites fairness between generations and interest payments of about 550 million euros a year, which it says limit the state's room to act.

The CDU wants to keep the debt brake. This is a rule: the state should take on almost no new debt. Bremen pays about 550 million euros in interest every year. The CDU wants young people to still have money for important things later.

The CDU wants to stop the planned drawdown of the pension reserve of roughly 500 million euros. The fund would become a sustainability fund investing in safe, environmentally friendly assets.

Bremen has saved money for the pensions of its civil servants. It is about 500 million euros. The CDU wants to keep this money. It should go into safe and green investments.

The CDU wants spending priorities on education, transport and infrastructure, the economy, and police and justice. It wants to counter disproportionate growth in social spending and end across-the-board cuts.

The CDU wants to spend money mainly on certain areas. These are education, transport, the economy, police, and courts. Social spending should not grow so fast. The CDU no longer wants to cut the same amount everywhere.

The CDU wants regular checks on whether public spending and grants to projects are necessary and meet their goals. It also wants projects delivered faster, private service providers more involved, and federal and EU funding used more fully.

The CDU wants to check whether public money has an effect. Projects should show with numbers what they achieve. Bremen should plan and build faster. Bremen should also get more funding from the federal government and from Europe.

The CDU wants to replace the federal property tax model with Lower Saxony's area-and-location model, which it considers simpler and fairer. Municipal multipliers would be set so that revenue stays the same and would not be raised afterward.

Property tax is paid on land and houses. The CDU thinks the new way of calculating it is too complicated. It wants to use the rules from Lower Saxony. Overall, the tax should not go up.

The CDU wants to create more housing in Bremen's city center and use the city-owned companies GEWOBA, BREBAU, and BREPARK to do so. A subsidy program would support converting offices into apartments. In the party's view, the city center becomes attractive through people who also live there.

The CDU wants more people to live in Bremen's city center. City-owned companies should build or buy apartments for this. Offices should become apartments. There should be funding for that. Parking garages should also offer space for bikes and charging points.

The CDU wants Bremen to build upward more and calls this architectural courage. In suitable locations, buildings should be allowed to rise above the cathedral.

The CDU wants to allow taller buildings in Bremen. In some places, buildings may then be taller than the cathedral. The party also wants special buildings along the Weser river.

The CDU wants to complete 10,000 apartments and houses within four years to keep housing affordable. The municipal companies BREBAU, GEWOBA, and STÄWOG are to play a larger role, since private investors are said to be holding back because of rising costs.

The CDU wants to build 10,000 apartments and houses in four years. Then there are more homes, and housing stays affordable. The city's housing companies should build many of them. A fixed share of social housing should remain.

The CDU wants to make it easier to designate building land and to speed up planning procedures. In Bremen-Nord, vacant and build-ready sites are to be made available much faster, because the platform sees a lot of potential there for new construction and owner-occupied homes.

The CDU wants building in Bremen to go faster. Planning should take less time. Bremen-Nord still has a lot of unused land. This land should become building land more quickly. The building office there should get more staff.

The CDU wants to make it easier to build on unused parts of large lots and to revise zoning plans for that purpose. The vacant-lot register is to list only sites that are actually for sale. The aim is to create new housing and use existing infrastructure.

Some houses stand on very large lots. The CDU wants to allow a second house on such lots. Building plans should be changed for this. There is a list of empty building sites. This list should get better.

The CDU wants to use the two public housing companies GEWOBA and BREBAU more actively for housing construction. GEWOBA is to keep its profits and build, renovate and buy more. BREBAU is to focus on housing construction and offer homes that are as affordable as possible.

Bremen owns two housing companies. They are called GEWOBA and BREBAU. The CDU wants both to build more homes. GEWOBA should keep its profits. It should use the money to build, renovate and buy homes.

The CDU wants to find and offer sites for tiny houses in Bremen. These small, partly mobile homes are to be open to everyone, such as students, trainees, families and seniors. Flat roofs and water areas are also to be considered.

Tiny houses are very small homes. Some of them can be moved. The CDU wants to find places for such homes in Bremen. Flat roofs should also be used. Living on the water should also be possible.

The CDU wants public buildings and municipal housing companies to exceed the legal minimum requirements and wants to draw up a renovation roadmap. Private owners are to be encouraged through incentives to renovate step by step without being overburdened.

Public buildings should use less energy than the law demands. This also applies to the city's housing companies. Private owners should get help to renovate their homes. The CDU does not want to ask too much of them.

The CDU wants to turn publicly owned housing companies into urban developers. They are to be allowed to make profits but must reinvest them for designated purposes. The background, in the program's view, is the slow growth in social housing.

Bremen owns housing companies. The CDU wants to give them more tasks. They should develop whole neighborhoods. They may make a profit. But they must invest the profit again. There should be more low-cost social housing.

The CDU wants to cut the processing time for Wohngeld (housing benefit) applications from several months today to no more than four weeks from 2024. To do so, the housing benefit office is to get more staff, and applications are to be possible online.

People who apply for housing benefit in Bremen wait many months. The CDU wants to change that. From 2024, an application should take four weeks at most. For this, there should be more staff and online applications.

The CDU wants to digitize building application and permit procedures in 2023 and introduce an electronic building file. Building applications are generally to be decided within four weeks.

Anyone who wants to build needs a permit from the authorities. The CDU wants to make this process fully digital. There should be a building office on the internet. The office should usually decide within four weeks.

The CDU wants to fund daycare centers through fees paid via vouchers rather than grants, as Hamburg does. Expansion of places should be faster, including with private investors. The platform argues this removes long planning processes and complex reviews.

The CDU wants to pay for daycare in a new way. There should be daycare vouchers, like in Hamburg. New daycare places should be built faster. Private investors should help too.

The CDU wants to cut the qualification period for family daycare providers from nine months to two to three months and pay trainees from the start. A central service office would take over their paperwork so they have more time for working with children.

Family daycare providers should be trained faster. Training should take only 2 to 3 months. They should be paid during training. One office should do their paperwork for them.

The CDU wants to fix the staff shortage in daycare, which the platform says leaves more than 600 finished places unusable. To do so, it wants to make the educator profession more attractive and easier to enter.

Bremen does not have enough daycare teachers. So finished daycare places stay empty. The CDU wants to win more people for the job. Getting into the job should be easier.

The CDU wants the city of Bremen to send a welcome package to families with newborns on its own initiative. People who move to Bremen or Bremerhaven are also to receive a package. The party speaks of a different culture of welcome.

The CDU wants a package for every new baby in Bremen. The city sends the package to the family itself. New residents should also get a package. It contains key information and vouchers.

The CDU wants to bundle benefits and advice for families and make them available digitally. In the platform's view, red tape and waiting times cost families time together.

The CDU wants families to get benefits more easily. There should be one single place for this. Applications and advice should be available online. This saves families time.

The CDU wants to help single parents into work through education, childcare, and help with child support. The goal is for them to become independent of state income support; the platform points to low labor force participation and high child poverty in this group.

The CDU wants to help single parents. They should be able to do job training, also part-time. They should get daycare places first. Public offices should help them get child support.

The CDU wants to improve child protection and put the youth welfare office on a more stable footing in staffing and organization. This includes more case managers and official guardians, constant reachability and a shared understanding of when a child's welfare is at risk. Unaccompanied foreign minors are again to be distributed among the states under the Königsteiner Schlüssel (the national allocation formula).

The CDU wants to protect children better. The youth welfare office should get more staff. People should always be able to reach it. All offices should agree on when a child is in danger. Young refugees without parents should be spread across all German states.

The CDU wants to introduce a compulsory preschool year for children with a documented need for language support. The platform argues that equal educational opportunity requires sufficient German skills.

Some children do not speak German well before school starts. These children should have to attend preschool for one year. There they should learn better German. That should help them keep up in school.

The CDU wants to deploy IT specialists as "digital caretakers" in schools so that technology works and teachers are relieved. Computer science would also become a separate subject from lower secondary level. Digital learning is meant to add to in-person teaching, not replace it.

The CDU wants to hire tech experts for schools. They look after computers and Wi-Fi. Teachers then have more time for teaching. Computer science should become its own school subject.

The CDU wants to give vocational schools more staff and resources and to present vocational training as equal to academic education. Career orientation would be expanded and begin as early as fourth grade.

The CDU wants to equip vocational schools better. They should get more staff and more materials. Children should learn about jobs as early as fourth grade. Job training should count as much as a university degree.

The CDU wants to convert every elementary school in the state into an all-day school and expand such offerings at secondary schools too. Schools would work more closely with sports clubs and child and youth welfare providers.

All elementary schools should become all-day schools. That means children are at school in the afternoon too. Sports clubs should take part there. There should be a third PE lesson each week.

The CDU wants to extend the LALE learning assessment to more grade levels and eventually have all schools take part. The platform says such tests give teachers the basis for individual support.

The CDU wants to check more often what students already know. The test is called LALE. More grades should take it. Teachers can then help each child better.

The CDU wants to preserve the existing Gymnasium schools (academic-track high schools) in Bremen and Bremerhaven. It also wants a new Gymnasium built in western Bremen, in the Walle and Gröpelingen area.

The CDU wants to keep all Gymnasium schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven. A Gymnasium is an academic high school. A new one should be built in western Bremen. It should be in Walle or Gröpelingen.

The CDU wants to give schools in socially strained neighborhoods better infrastructure and priority for additional staff. It argues that school success in Bremen depends more on parents' income than anywhere else in Germany.

Some neighborhoods have many social problems. Schools there should get more help. They should get better buildings and more staff. All children should have the same chances.

The CDU wants to improve staffing and facilities for inclusive schooling while keeping the specialized support centers. Applications for children with special needs are to be processed faster, and the job of school assistant is to become more attractive.

In Bremen, children with and without disabilities learn together. The CDU wants more staff and better rooms for this. Special support schools should stay. Help for children should come faster. No child should miss school because an assistant is missing.

The CDU wants every type of school to have more teachers than are mathematically needed to cover lessons. To get there, it wants easier entry into the profession, more university and teacher-training places, and an interstate treaty to coordinate teacher training nationwide.

Bremen and Bremerhaven do not have enough teachers. The CDU wants more places for teacher studies and practical training. Getting into the job should become easier. The German states should set shared rules for teacher training.

The CDU wants to preserve independently run schools and give them room to develop. It considers the state's current subsidies, based on per-student cost rates, to be a disadvantage and wants to replace them with a new funding model.

Some schools are not run by the state but by independent groups. The CDU wants to keep these schools. The state should pay them in a new way. Costs for materials and buildings should count too.

The CDU wants to create additional school space and significantly speed up both new construction and renovation of schools. When old buildings are renovated, restrooms are to come first.

Many elementary schools in Bremen are too full. The CDU wants to build new school rooms. Building and repairs should go faster. Old school restrooms should be fixed first.

The CDU wants elementary schools to add number grades from third grade on, alongside the current form of assessment. Children who are too weak in reading, writing and math after fourth grade are to receive mandatory extra support.

Elementary schools should give number grades starting in third grade. The current feedback stays too. Weak students should get extra learning time after fourth grade. This support should be required.

The CDU wants students who fail to meet the goals of their grade to be able to repeat the year, and says they should. Beforehand, learning gaps are to be analyzed and binding support measures set.

Some students do not reach the goal of their grade. They should be able to repeat the year. First the school checks what the student is missing. Then the student gets fixed help with learning.

The CDU wants to introduce a school subject called Lebenskunde (life skills), including so-called happiness lessons, starting in elementary school. Children are to learn how to handle feelings such as worries and fears; the party points to the rising number of children and teens with mental illness.

The CDU wants a new school subject. It is about life skills. Children learn how to deal with worries and fear. It also covers exercise, food, money and media. The subject should start in elementary school.

The CDU stands by Bremen's cross-party education consensus of 2008 and its 2018 extension. It is dissatisfied with implementation, however, and wants educational success to depend less on social background and Gymnasien (academic-track high schools) to be considered equally when new schools are founded.

The parties in Bremen have a shared agreement on schools. The CDU wants to keep it. But it says the agreement is carried out poorly. Children from poor families should get better chances. New schools should also include academic-track high schools.

The CDU wants to strengthen civic education at schools and reach an agreement between the state of Bremen and the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) for this purpose. Youth officers are to be able to explain security policy topics in class without recruiting.

Students should learn more about politics and democracy. The CDU wants to work with the German armed forces on this. Army experts should talk about security in schools. They should not advertise jobs there.

The CDU wants to get more young people into vocational training and better match supply and demand on the training market. The Jugendberufsagentur (youth employment agency) would manage the transition systematically and actively reach out to young people. No student should leave school without a diploma.

The CDU wants more young people to find a training place. The youth employment agency should help more. Its staff should go out and talk to young people. Everyone should leave school with a diploma.

The CDU wants to bring university facilities and student housing into Bremen's city center. Existing sites of the Hochschule Bremen and the Hochschule für Künste are to serve as the basis.

The CDU wants more students in the center of Bremen. People should study there and also live there. There should be student dorms. The city library should also get a new home.

The CDU wants more training and continuing education in occupations that matter for climate protection and wants to found a climate campus with a training center in Bremen-Nord. The platform justifies this with a shortage of tradespeople and specialists for the energy transition.

Many skilled workers are missing for the energy transition. So the CDU wants more training in climate jobs. A climate campus should be built in Bremen-Nord. People learn these jobs there.

The CDU wants to make climate, environment and sustainability a permanent part of education, from kindergarten through school, vocational training and beyond. Teaching staff are to receive regular training for this.

Children should learn about climate and the environment early. This should start in daycare and continue in school. Daycare workers and teachers should take regular courses on it.

The CDU wants to reliably fund the core budgets of the university and the other higher-education institutions, reaching at least the national average. The Wissenschaftsplan 2025 (the state's science plan) is to be fully funded. The platform argues that Bremen has ranked near the bottom on core funding for years.

The CDU wants to give universities more money. Bremen should pay at least as much as the German states do on average. The science plan for 2025 should also get enough money. This is the state's plan for its universities.

The CDU wants to scrap the Zivilklausel (civil clause), which commits universities to research for civilian purposes only. In the party's view, it hampers research on technologies with both civilian and military uses and weakens Bremen's competitiveness.

The CDU wants to end the civil clause. This rule only allows universities to do research for peaceful purposes. The CDU says the rule slows research down. Universities should decide for themselves.

The CDU wants the University of Bremen to succeed again in the next round of applications for Clusters of Excellence and pledges support for this. It also wants to reduce administrative burdens for researchers and create more permanent positions for mid-level academic staff.

The CDU wants Bremen to be among the best places for research again. The university should win funding for top research again. Researchers should have less paperwork. More university staff should get permanent jobs.

The CDU wants a single strategy for science marketing that is linked with the city marketing of both cities. This is meant to raise student numbers considerably. In addition, better study counseling and talent scouting in schools are meant to ease the path to university for young people from non-academic families.

The CDU wants to promote Bremen more as a place for science. More young people should then study in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Schools should spot gifted students early and advise them. Going to university should not depend on a student's family.

The CDU wants to expand the range of degree programs, above all by building structures for training physicians, with a dedicated medical faculty in the medium term. It also plans programs in sports education, software development, and computer science teacher training. The platform justifies this with the shortage of skilled workers.

The CDU wants new degree programs in Bremen. People should be able to study medicine in Bremen in the future. Sports teachers and computer science teachers should also be trained here. The CDU wants to gain more skilled workers this way.

The CDU wants to reduce the renovation backlog at universities and improve the campus atmosphere in the process. Shortages of rooms and lecture halls are to be addressed through reliable investment planning and additional funds, including a new lecture hall and event center at the university.

The CDU wants to repair university buildings. There should be more rooms and lecture halls. A new center with lecture halls should be built at the university. Good buildings should make Bremen more attractive for students.

The CDU wants to use state funds to support the creation of student housing and to bring in additional providers alongside the Studierendenwerk (student services organization). Applications for BAföG (federal student aid) are to be processed faster. In addition, psychosocial counseling at universities is to be expanded.

The CDU wants more housing for students. The state should provide money for this. Applications for BAföG should be handled faster. BAföG is money from the state for studying. Students with mental health problems should get more counseling.

The CDU wants to provide more money for digitalizing universities and to equip teaching rooms with the necessary technology. Digital and hybrid teaching formats are to be a regular part of studying. The party wants to turn this into a flagship project for Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The CDU wants to make universities more digital. There should be more money for this. Rooms should get modern technology. Students should also be able to learn online.

The CDU wants to expand international exchange among teaching staff and students by giving more support to Erasmus+ and to lecturer mobility. International degree programs are meant to bring more students from abroad to Bremen.

The CDU wants more exchange with other countries. Students and teachers should be able to go abroad more easily. The Erasmus program exists for this. More young people from abroad should also study in Bremen.

The CDU wants students doing a practical semester with the state of Bremen and its institutions to receive at least 400 euros a month. The same amount is to apply as an allowance in companies majority-owned by the state or the city of Bremen.

Some students work in a public office for one semester. The CDU wants them to get paid for this. It should be at least 400 euros a month. This should also apply in companies owned by Bremen.

The CDU wants to strengthen institutions that make science accessible to the public, such as the Universum Science Center, the Klimahaus, and museums. A new Kosmoskop in downtown Bremen is to be added, which is also meant to attract tourists.

The CDU wants to support places where everyone can experience science. These include museums and the Klimahaus. A Kosmoskop should be built in downtown Bremen. There, people can discover the stars and the deep sea.

The CDU wants climate protection and sustainability to play a larger role in the training of future teachers and early childhood educators. The aim is for these topics to be better integrated into lessons and everyday school life later on.

The CDU wants future teachers to learn more about climate protection. This also applies to daycare staff. Then they can teach the topic better at school.

The CDU wants to promote the exchange of knowledge and technology between universities, businesses, and society. In its view, research results should be put to use and make Bremen and Bremerhaven more innovative.

The CDU wants researchers and companies to work together more closely. Research results should be used. Citizens should also be able to take part in research.

The CDU wants to create religious education in Bremen that is tied to a specific denomination. It sees knowledge of one's own religion and of other religions as a basis for tolerance and living together.

The CDU wants a new kind of religion class. The class is tied to one faith. Children should know their own religion. They should also know other religions. The CDU says this helps people be tolerant.

The CDU wants health education, prevention, and first-aid and resuscitation courses to become a fixed part of school lessons and backs a school subject called "Lebenskunde" (life skills) for this purpose. Mental health services are also to be expanded because, according to the program, such illnesses have been rising for years.

Children are to learn more about health at school. First-aid courses are to start in first grade. The CDU wants a new school subject for this. It is to be called life skills. There is also to be more help for mental health.

The CDU wants to broaden consumer education in schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The consumer advice center is to receive enough funding to offer talks and workshops there. Digital information services and media literacy for all age groups are also to be promoted.

Students are to learn more about their rights as buyers. The consumer advice center is to visit schools for this. It gets more money to do so. There is also to be more information and advice online.

The CDU wants to make care by relatives and volunteers easier and to strengthen home care relative to nursing homes. It points to the rising number of people needing care, staff shortages, and growing costs.

More and more people need care. The CDU wants to support relatives and volunteers who provide it. There should be more short-term care places close to home. Nursing homes should be inspected every year.

The CDU wants to secure medical care for older people and do more for people with dementia. It points out that Bremen has the highest share nationwide of insured people with a dementia diagnosis.

The CDU wants good care for older people. Family doctors should be close to home. People with dementia should get more help. Dementia is an illness that makes people forget many things. The CDU will look into a special village for people with dementia.

The CDU wants to plan care by doctors' offices and by hospitals jointly in the future. The basis is to be an analysis of actual care needs covering Bremen, Bremerhaven and the surrounding area.

The CDU wants to plan doctors' offices and hospitals together. Today they are planned separately. First, a study should show what people really need. Hospital planning should then follow that study.

The CDU wants to digitalize health care in Bremen and develop the municipal hospitals into so-called smart hospitals. This is meant to cut red tape and free up more time for treating and caring for patients.

The CDU wants more digital technology in health care. The city hospitals should handle almost all steps digitally. That means less paperwork. Doctors and nurses then have more time for patients.

The CDU wants to gradually raise the state's investment funding for hospitals to 90 million euros a year. All hospitals in the state are to receive the money reliably and on equal terms.

The CDU wants to give hospitals more money for investments. In the end it should be 90 million euros a year. All hospitals in the state should be treated equally. That way they can plan better.

The CDU wants the state to stop covering the losses of the municipal hospital group Gesundheit Nord (GeNo). The group is to present a restructuring plan, and the health department would no longer chair its supervisory board.

Gesundheit Nord is the city hospital group in Bremen. It loses money. The CDU no longer wants to cover these losses with tax money. The group should present a recovery plan within six months. The health senator should no longer lead its supervisory board.

The CDU wants to create what it calls the largest and most attractive health campus in northern Germany and draw more young people into health professions. Training sites, training places and career paths are to be expanded for this.

The CDU wants more young people to choose health jobs. For that, there should be good places to train. A nursing academy is to be built in Bremerhaven. There should be more training places for assistants in doctors' offices.

The CDU wants a “Konzertierte Aktion Pflege” (concerted action on nursing) to recruit new nurses and bring former ones back into the profession. Bremen is to become a more attractive place to work for doctors and nurses.

Bremen does not have enough nurses. The CDU wants to win new nurses. People who left the job should come back. The CDU also wants to talk about skilled workers from abroad. It will look into flexible child care at the city hospitals.

The CDU wants to secure family doctors and specialists close to home by creating medical care centers or health centers in the neighborhoods. In areas with gaps in care, incentives are meant to get doctors to set up practice.

The CDU wants doctors close to where people live. For that, there should be health centers in the neighborhoods. Several doctors work there under one roof. Where doctors are missing, the CDU wants incentives for new practices.

The CDU wants more services offering abortions in the state of Bremen, especially medication abortions. The legally required counseling before an abortion is to stay in place. Institutions working on sexual health are also to cooperate more closely.

The CDU wants more places in Bremen that offer abortions. Abortion with medication matters most to the party. Women must still go to counseling first. That rule is to stay.

The CDU wants to equip the public health offices in Bremen and Bremerhaven with more qualified staff, investment and digital tools. They are to rank among the most digitalized health offices in Germany. Organization and workflows are also to improve.

The CDU wants stronger public health offices. They are to get enough well-trained staff. The offices are to work in a more modern and digital way. Knowledge from the university is to help.

The CDU wants to focus Bremen's drug services on withdrawal and rejects permanent state-funded drug use. A drug consumption room is to serve only as a transit point on the way into treatment. The whole support system is to be reviewed externally and moved under state responsibility.

The CDU wants to help addicted people quit. Withdrawal is the main goal for the party. A room for drug use is to be only a stop along the way. In the future, the public health offices are to run the help.

The CDU wants to take in refugees beyond the mandatory quota under the Königsteiner Schlüssel only if housing, daycare and school places and integration services are available. Accommodation is to be planned for the long term and be mostly publicly owned. The program calls taking people in without adequate provision inhumane and costly.

Bremen must take in a fixed number of refugees. The CDU wants to take in more only if there is enough room. There must be housing, daycare places and school places. The shelters should belong to the state. Gyms should be used as shelters only in an emergency.

The CDU wants to consistently deport refugees it regards as unwilling to integrate or who have committed crimes. For well-integrated people who make an effort, it wants to create the conditions for the "Chancen-Aufenthalt" (opportunity residence permit). In the Bundesrat it will push for longer prior-residence periods before permanent residence is granted.

The CDU wants to deport refugees who commit crimes. The same goes for people who refuse to integrate. People who integrate well should be able to stay. But the CDU wants this: People must live here longer before they may stay for good.

The CDU wants to make it easier to recognize foreign vocational qualifications and, through the Bundesrat, to recruit skilled workers in their home countries together with other states. Migrant self-organizations and neighborhood centers are to be strengthened in their integration work.

The CDU wants to bring in more skilled workers from abroad. Their job qualifications should be recognized more easily. There should be more language classes for them. Groups run by migrants should get money and rooms. Neighborhood centers should also get more help.

The CDU welcomes the high number of citizenship applications and wants to shorten processing times, which currently run up to two years. To that end, the migration office is to get more staff and space and work more digitally.

Many people in Bremen want to become German citizens. The CDU thinks that is good. But applications take up to two years. So the office should get more staff and more rooms. Many steps should also work online.

The CDU rejects binding rules on gender-inclusive language in education, teaching, and public administration. People who do not use it should face no disadvantage, including in grading.

The CDU does not want rules that force gender-inclusive language. That is language that addresses all genders. Nobody should be worse off for not using it. This also applies to school grades.

The CDU wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention in Bremen and Bremerhaven and provide enough counseling and women's shelter places. It notes that women and girls are especially often affected by violence, including domestic violence.

Women and girls often face violence. The CDU wants to protect them better. There should be enough places in women's shelters. There should be good counseling. Dark paths should get better lighting.

The CDU wants to give women and girls better career opportunities and free job profiles from gender stereotypes early on. It argues that women in Bremen are employed less often and unemployed more often than in other German states.

The CDU wants better job chances for women. Girls should get to know all kinds of jobs, without prejudice. Jobs done mostly by women should pay better. Women without a degree should get help.

The CDU wants half of the leadership positions in the state administration and state-owned companies to be held by women, as long as suitable female candidates are available. The public sector is meant to set an example; for the party, promoting women and selecting by merit go together.

The CDU wants more women as bosses in public offices. This also applies to companies owned by the state. The condition is that suitable women apply. Parental leave should not hurt a career.

The CDU wants to do more to protect lesbian, gay, bi, trans, intersex and queer people. The state action plan against homophobia, transphobia and interphobia is to be carried forward.

The CDU wants to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Nobody should treat them badly. Bremen already has a plan for this. The CDU wants to keep working on that plan.

The CDU wants to promptly draw up the already approved state action plan against racism across all departments. Complaint and counseling offices are to be expanded and discriminatory structures dismantled.

The CDU wants to act against racism and discrimination. Bremen should soon have a plan for this. People affected should be able to complain more easily. This should also work online and without giving a name. There should be more education on the topic.

The CDU wants to combine economic and environmental goals in business parks. This includes a solar roof requirement for new commercial buildings, easier permits for wind turbines in commercial zones, and less sealed ground.

The CDU wants business parks to be better for the climate. New company buildings must have solar panels on the roof. Wind turbines in business parks should get permits more easily. Less ground should be built over.

The CDU wants to provide more space and handling capacity for offshore wind turbines in the ports and build a “Green Energy Port” on the Weser. The facilities are also to be usable for hydrogen and its derivatives.

The CDU wants to use the ports for the shift to clean energy. Wind turbines for the sea should be loaded and serviced there. A new port on the Weser should be built for this. Hydrogen should also arrive and be processed there.

The CDU wants to further reduce emissions in the ports with a view to climate neutrality. Cargo-handling equipment is to switch to climate-friendly drives, and ships are to use electricity from shore while docked.

The CDU wants less exhaust in the port. Machines in the port should run in a climate-friendly way. Ships at the quay should get power from land. Then their engines do not have to run there.

The CDU wants to give taxi operators financial support for switching to electric cars. Each newly purchased electric taxi would receive a 10,000-euro subsidy. According to the program, nearly all of Bremen's more than 460 taxis currently run on combustion engines.

The CDU wants taxis in Bremen to run on electricity. Each new electric taxi should get 10,000 euros. The city should also pay for charging points for taxis. Today almost all taxis run on gasoline or diesel.

The CDU commits to the Paris Climate Agreement and wants Bremen to be climate-neutral by 2040 at the latest. It relies on incentives, innovation and openness to all technologies rather than blanket bans; climate action should remain affordable for everyone.

The CDU wants Bremen to be climate-neutral by 2040. Climate-neutral means the state no longer harms the climate. The CDU wants to get there with new technology and incentives. It does not want blanket bans.

The CDU wants to raise the share of renewables in electricity, heating and cooling considerably. Installed wind capacity is to grow by half to around 300 megawatts by 2030 in order to meet the climate targets in the energy sector.

The CDU wants more energy from wind and sun. This applies to electricity, heating and cooling. Wind power in Bremen should grow by half by 2030. Bremen should also save more energy.

The CDU wants to raise solar capacity in the state of Bremen to around 500 megawatts by 2030 and to 1,000 megawatts in the long run. Every suitable roof is to get a photovoltaic system, with public buildings leading by example.

The CDU wants much more power from the sun. By 2030 there should be ten times as much solar capacity as today. Every suitable roof should get solar panels. The city should start with its own buildings.

The CDU wants to give private households financial support for solar systems, including balcony modules and battery storage. Low-income households are to receive higher subsidies, and tenants are to take part in the energy transition through Mieterstrom (tenant power) systems.

The CDU wants to give households money for solar panels. This includes small panels for balconies. People with little money should get more help. Renters should also be able to use solar power from their own roof.

The CDU wants to make greater use of wind power on land and at sea and to replace older turbines with more powerful ones. Citizens are to be able to take part in projects through cooperatives.

The CDU wants more power from wind. Old wind turbines should be replaced by stronger ones. People should be able to join wind projects together.

The CDU wants heating in the state of Bremen to be climate-neutral by 2040 at the latest. Municipal heat planning is to show the cheapest and most effective renewable options for streets, neighborhoods and districts.

The CDU wants heating to work without oil and gas by 2040. The cities should make a plan for this. The plan shows the best solution for each area. That can be a heat network or a local system.

The CDU wants to make Bremen and Bremerhaven a hub for green hydrogen and expand production, grids and storage for this. In the platform's view, hydrogen is to make industry, transport and heating climate-neutral and store renewable energy over long periods.

The CDU wants Bremen to make a lot of green hydrogen. Hydrogen is a gas that stores energy. It should help the steel plant work in a climate-friendly way, for example. There should also be filling stations for hydrogen.

The CDU wants to link climate protection and the economy and support climate-friendly technologies with incentives and funding structures. Capturing, storing and using CO2 is also to be included, because the platform considers full climate neutrality unreachable otherwise.

The CDU wants to reward companies that use climate-friendly technology. It also wants CO2 to be captured and stored. CO2 is a gas that harms the climate. Public offices should issue permits faster.

The CDU wants to reduce electricity and gas shutoffs and prevent them entirely in cases of social hardship. To that end, the existing hardship fund is to be reformed. The consumer advice center is to get a climate protection management position and also advise on electric mobility.

Some people have their power or gas cut off. The CDU wants this to happen less often. In hardship cases it should not happen at all. The consumer advice center is to give more advice on energy and climate.

The CDU proposes a state fund to support climate-friendly technologies, mainly at start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses. The public sector and private investors would each take a half share in projects to mobilize more private capital.

The CDU wants a new fund for climate protection. A fund is a pool of money. The state and private investors each pay half. The money goes mainly to young and smaller companies with new climate ideas.

The CDU rejects suspending the debt brake for climate spending and instead wants a climate bond issued through the Bremer Aufbaubank (Bremen's development bank). This is meant to finance climate investments without adding new debt to the state budget.

The CDU does not want new state debt for climate protection. Instead, a state-owned bank should collect money from residents. It uses the money to build solar panels, for example. Residents get interest in return.

The CDU wants to make parks and green spaces more usable, describing them as often uninviting. The Wallanlagen park is to become an "experience world" with food and drink on offer.

The CDU wants to make Bremen's parks nicer. There should be more benches, lights, and play equipment. Drinking fountains are also planned. People should be able to buy food and drinks in the Wallanlagen park.

The CDU wants to bring the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Garden Show) to Bremen and Bremerhaven. It is meant to show how cities can adapt to climate change and what individuals can contribute.

The CDU wants to bring the Federal Garden Show to Bremen. This is a large exhibition of gardens and parks. It should show how cities deal with climate change. The CDU wants to use existing parks for it.

The CDU wants to expand dike protection and raise dikes where needed to protect Bremen and Bremerhaven from future extreme floods. The platform sees this as part of adapting to climate change.

Dikes protect the cities from floods. The CDU wants to protect the dikes better. Where needed, they should be made higher. Animals such as nutria should not damage the dikes either.

The CDU wants to maintain and reforest parks, unseal suitable paved areas and add more greenery to roofs and facades. In the platform's view, this is to improve the urban climate, cool buildings and promote biodiversity.

The CDU wants more green in the city. Parks should get more trees. Roofs and house walls should carry plants. Gravel gardens should become green again.

The CDU wants to push back invasive animal and plant species that threaten native ones. The number of city pigeons is to be controlled through pigeon lofts, and rat infestations reduced through cleaner streets.

Some foreign animals and plants push out native species. The CDU wants to act against that. There should be pigeon hotels for pigeons. There, the eggs are swapped for plaster eggs. A clean city should help against rats.

The CDU wants to cut waste volumes and extend the useful life of consumer goods in order to save CO2. To that end, resource centers offering repair services are to be set up, and technologies for closed raw-material cycles are to be supported.

The CDU wants less trash. Things like devices and clothes should last longer. There should be centers where people can get things repaired. This saves money and helps the climate.

The CDU wants to strengthen the competitiveness of Bremen's agriculture with funding and support conventional and organic farms alike. Rules that harm farms are to be reviewed together with farmers and withdrawn where appropriate.

There are fewer and fewer farms in Bremen. The CDU wants to help farms with funding. It wants to check rules that harm farmers. Students should visit farms and learn there.

The CDU wants less food to be thrown away, especially in public institutions. It also wants to promote healthy, informed eating and strengthen the food industry. The party rejects any state-mandated fully plant-based diet.

The CDU wants less food to end up in the trash. This applies most of all to public offices and institutions. People should be able to eat healthy food. But the state should not force anyone to eat only plants.

The CDU wants to keep Bremen Airport as a passenger airport and support its renovation. A private co-owner would bring in money and expertise. It also wants a review of whether more of the runway can be used for regular traffic.

The CDU wants to keep Bremen Airport for travelers. The city should help with repairs. A private company should become a co-owner and bring money. Planes should be allowed to use a longer part of the runway.

The CDU wants to improve land access to the ports and quickly expand hinterland connections. This includes rail projects in the Hanover–Hamburg–Bremen triangle and completion of the A20 highway.

The CDU wants better routes to the ports. Trains and trucks should get to the port and away faster. New tracks should be built for this. The A20 highway should also be finished.

The CDU supports adjusting the shipping channel of the Outer Weser so the largest container ships can keep calling at Bremerhaven. Bremen and Lower Saxony should not block each other on the Weser projects.

The CDU wants to adjust the shipping channel of the Outer Weser. The channel is the path ships use in the river. This lets very large ships keep coming to Bremerhaven. Protection of nature and against floods should be examined.

The CDU wants to pass a mobility law that makes transport projects binding. It justifies this with what it sees as overly long procedures and decaying infrastructure. All modes of transport are to be considered together.

The CDU wants to make a law for transport. It should say what gets built and when. It should also show the costs. The CDU thinks projects take too long today. Cars, bikes, buses, and walkers should all be considered.

The CDU wants to introduce resident parking only with the consent of residents and the local advisory council, and to cap the annual fee at 100 euros. Parking partly on the sidewalk would be allowed where enough sidewalk remains. Neighborhood garages are also planned.

The CDU wants new rules for parking in residential areas. Resident parking should cost no more than 100 euros a year. Residents should have a say first. Cars may park partly on the sidewalk if enough space is left. There should also be garages for whole neighborhoods.

The CDU wants to introduce a "Bremen-Takt" (Bremen service interval): during the day, no one should wait more than ten minutes for a bus or tram. The party argues that only more frequent service will win people over to the shift away from cars.

The CDU wants buses and trams to run more often. From 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., no one should wait more than 10 minutes. The party says this is the only way to get more people to use buses and trams.

The CDU wants to connect the Bremen-Nord district better to the city center. The RS1 regional rail line would run more often and at night, along with an additional track, new stops, and transfer hubs. The program cites overcrowded, delayed, and canceled trains as the reason.

The CDU wants better links between Bremen-Nord and the city center. The RS1 train should run more often, also at night. There should be another track and new stops. At stations, it should be easier to switch to a bike or car.

The CDU wants smoother traffic: traffic lights would be switched off at night where possible and linked with vehicles to create green waves. Garbage trucks would use cameras and sensors to record road conditions. The 30 km/h limit outside schools and daycare centers would apply only until 8 p.m.

The CDU wants traffic to flow better. Some traffic lights should be off at night. Traffic lights should share data with vehicles. Garbage trucks should find potholes with cameras. The 30 km/h limit near schools should end at 8 p.m.

The CDU wants to offer on-demand rides on the city's outskirts, where regular bus lines are often uneconomical. Self-driving buses would start in small areas as soon as possible. The Weser river would be developed as an additional transport route.

The CDU wants new public transit options. On the edge of the city, vehicles should come when people order them. This is called on-demand. Buses without drivers should soon run in small areas. More boats should also carry people on the Weser river.

The CDU wants buses and trams in Bremen's city center to be usable by everyone without a ticket. The program points to the 9-euro ticket, which it says showed that people use public transit when the price is right.

The CDU wants everyone to ride buses and trams for free in Bremen's city center. People would not need a ticket there. The party says more people use public transit when the price is good.

The CDU wants to introduce an annual pass for 365 euros that is valid across the entire VBN regional transit network. Students would ride for free. The party wants public transit to be clearly cheaper than driving.

The CDU wants cheaper tickets for buses and trains. A pass for one year should cost 365 euros. Students should get a free monthly pass. A day trip between Bremen and Bremerhaven should cost 10 euros at most.

The CDU wants a comprehensive mobility app for Bremen that brings all services together. Car sharing would get more spaces and priority in parking. Fixed parking areas would become mandatory for e-scooters and shared bikes.

The CDU wants one app for all means of transport in Bremen. The app should show the best option. There should be more spaces for car sharing. Car sharing means many people share one car. E-scooters should only be parked in fixed areas.

The CDU wants to take up the Verkehrsentwicklungsplan (transport development plan) again and implement it without interruptions. The district advisory councils would be firmly involved. The city would be considered as a whole, not just from the center.

Bremen has a plan for transport. The CDU wants to take up this plan again and carry it out. The councils in the districts should help decide. The whole city should count, not only the center.

The CDU wants to make cycling in Bremen easier, with bike lanes in every district, faster construction of bike bridges over the Weser, and a subsidy program for cargo bikes. The program describes Bremen as a state of short distances where much can be done by bike.

The CDU wants to make cycling in Bremen easier. Every district should have bike lanes. Broken bike lanes should be repaired. Bridges for bikes over the Weser should be finished faster. There should be funding for cargo bikes.

The CDU wants to digitalize the ports of Bremen and automate them more. It expects higher productivity, more cargo, and additional jobs behind the quay as a result.

The CDU wants to make the ports more digital. Machines should do more of the work themselves. The computer systems in the port should work together better. Workers should get training for this.

The CDU wants to create a separate government department for digitalization in the next legislative term. A central, independent unit is to plan, steer, and carry out the digitalization of the administration.

The CDU wants to create a separate department for digital matters. It should plan and guide the digital work of government offices. Bremen should lead in Germany in this area. The offices should work together better.

The CDU wants to introduce a digital citizen service through which all government services are available online around the clock. Printed forms, waiting numbers, and correspondence by mail are to be eliminated.

The CDU wants to offer all government services online. Examples are parental allowance, housing benefit, or a new ID card. Citizens should be able to do this at any time. No one should have to print forms or wait at an office.

The CDU wants to do away with paper files in all of Bremen's government agencies except for unavoidable exceptions and to enforce the electronic record-keeping already required by law. Invoices are to be handled digitally from start to finish.

Many offices in Bremen still work with paper files. The CDU wants to end this. All files should be digital. Offices should also handle invoices only digitally. Good ideas from staff should win a prize.

The CDU wants to make Bremen a leading location for artificial intelligence in Germany. To that end, research, training of skilled workers and support for small and medium-sized businesses are to be expanded. In the program's view, data protection must not stand in the way of innovation.

The CDU wants Bremen to be strong in artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn on their own. There should be more research and more experts. Small companies should get help. Data protection should not slow down new ideas.

The CDU wants to make the state a pioneer in data and open up public data widely. The program treats data as a factor of production and a competitive advantage from which new business models should emerge.

The CDU wants to open government data to everyone. This means data on traffic, climate and maps, for example. Data about individual people is not included. Companies should use the data for new business ideas.

The CDU wants to use artificial intelligence across the board in routine government procedures. This is meant to make public offices more efficient and more citizen-friendly.

The CDU wants to use smart computer programs in public offices. The programs should do simple tasks on their own. This should make the offices faster. It should help people.

The CDU wants to close the remaining gaps in high-performance internet connections for businesses, private households and educational institutions. The program treats broadband as a public infrastructure task like roads or utility lines.

The CDU wants fast internet everywhere. This applies to companies, homes and schools. The state should take care of it like it does roads. Schools should get good Wi-Fi in classrooms.

The CDU wants to make buses, trams, and stations safer through a comprehensive security plan. Police and municipal enforcement officers would be more visible there. In the program's view, public transit will otherwise not become an alternative to the car.

The CDU wants to make buses, trams, and stations safer. More police and enforcement officers should be present there. The party says people only use public transit if they feel safe.

The CDU wants to ban alcohol and drug use, alcohol sales, and aggressive begging around Bremen's main train station. At the same time, a coordination office involving all relevant government departments is to help people in the station scene, since the party says policing alone will not solve the situation.

The CDU wants new bans at Bremen's main train station. Nobody may drink alcohol or take drugs there. Selling alcohol and pushy begging are also banned. A new office should help the people there.

The CDU wants to fill all 110 neighborhood contact officer positions and expand technical surveillance of public places. A mobile police station operating around the clock is to be set up at Bremen's main train station. The platform justifies this with what it sees as a security problem in Bremen.

The CDU wants more police on the streets. Every district should have its own contact officers. There should be more cameras in public places. A police station at the main train station should be open day and night.

The CDU wants to raise the number of police officers by 2027 to at least 3,000 in Bremen and at least 580 in Bremerhaven. A police academy offering a police-track vocational diploma ("Fachabitur Polizei") is to open the job to people without the Abitur. Pay and allowances are to rise to make the job more attractive.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. Bremen should have at least 3,000. Bremerhaven should have at least 580. People without the highest school diploma should also be able to join. Police officers should earn more money.

The CDU wants to relieve police officers of administrative and secondary tasks and hire more non-sworn staff for that purpose. At the same time, police technology is to be upgraded, including a cyber police unit, dashcams in patrol cars and apps for administrative work.

Police officers do a lot of office work. The CDU wants other staff to take this over. Then officers have more time for their real job. The police should also get better technology. A special unit should fight crime on the internet. Patrol cars should get cameras.

The CDU wants to equip the police in Bremen and Bremerhaven with modern technology, more vehicles and new gear. This includes tasers, dash cams, mobile devices and digital workflows, as well as an online police station reachable by video.

The CDU wants to equip the police better. Officers should get tasers, car cameras and good protective clothing. They should use tablets and smartphones. People should be able to report crimes by video at any time.

The CDU wants to review and amend Bremen's police law. Data protection rules that go beyond the EU's General Data Protection Regulation would be dropped, special control zones brought back and receipts for police checks abolished. The platform justifies this with its trust in the police.

The CDU wants to change the police law in Bremen. Extra-strict data protection rules should go. There should again be special places for police checks. Officers should no longer have to hand out a receipt after a check.

The CDU wants to confront criminal clans with sustained pressure from checks and investigations. Measures include taking away driver's licenses and cars, more asset confiscation, exit programs and the deportation of repeat offenders.

The CDU wants to be tough on criminal clans. Clans here are large families in which some members commit crimes. The police should check them often. The state should take away cars and money from crimes. Serious offenders should have to leave Germany.

The CDU wants to put health and youth protection at the center of drug policy and expand support services. At the same time, police are to break up dealer networks and punish all drug offenses, especially around the train station.

The CDU wants to give more help to people with drug problems. There should be more counseling and therapy. At the same time, the police should be tough on drug dealers. This applies most of all near the train station.

The CDU wants to bring police, prosecutors and youth services together with independent providers in one place. The aim is to fight juvenile crime effectively and stop criminal careers early.

The CDU wants to create a House of Juvenile Justice in Bremen. Police, prosecutors and youth services would work under one roof. Together they would deal with young offenders. This should keep young people from becoming lasting criminals.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for cyberbullying to become a separate offense in the Criminal Code. Bremen would then equip police and courts so that such acts can be prosecuted.

The CDU wants to make cyberbullying its own crime. Cyberbullying means harassing or insulting others online or by phone. A federal law would have to change for this. Police and courts in Bremen should get enough resources for it.

The CDU wants an immediate program to invest in fire department vehicles, buildings and training and to hire considerably more staff. Emergency personnel are to be protected from attacks, and volunteers in aid organizations given equal legal status.

The CDU wants to spend more money on the fire department. There should be new vehicles, repaired buildings and more staff. Firefighters should reach the scene within 10 minutes at most. The CDU also wants to protect rescue workers from attacks.

The CDU wants offenders to be brought before a court immediately when the evidence is clear, and to provide more staff for this. In the platform's view, long proceedings weaken deterrence and trust in the rule of law. Foreign offenders who are required to leave the country would be deported.

The CDU wants faster criminal trials. If a crime is clearly proven, the offender should see a judge right away. There should be more staff for this. Foreign offenders with no right to stay should return to their home countries.

The CDU wants to keep and strengthen Bremen's State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Police and the intelligence service would use information in shared databases, and the service would get every intelligence tool permitted in other states.

The CDU wants to strengthen the Verfassungsschutz in Bremen. That is an intelligence service that watches enemies of democracy. It should work more closely with the police and share data. It should be allowed to use more surveillance tools.

The CDU wants to equip disaster response units according to need, modernize their bases and expand the warning system with sirens. Annual drills and a parliamentary study commission on crises are meant to improve preparation for emergencies.

The CDU wants to equip disaster response teams better. There should be more sirens to warn people. Helpers should practice for emergencies every year. A commission in parliament should work out a plan for crises.

The CDU wants to secure energy, water and transport facilities with automated surveillance technology and a coordinated guard plan. The state would also promptly get a cyber defense strategy, with implementation starting in 2023.

The CDU wants to protect important facilities better. These include facilities for power, water, gas and transport. Cameras and motion detectors should watch them. Bremen should also get a plan against attacks from the internet.

The CDU wants to renovate Bremen's public buildings so that they meet the same requirements as private ones. In the party's view, many of these buildings are in poor condition. Public-private partnerships would help finance the work.

The CDU wants to fix up the city's buildings. The CDU says many are in bad shape. The same rules should apply to them as to private builders. Private companies should also be able to help pay.

The CDU considers the 2019 split of the economics and ports departments a mistake and wants to reunite them. In addition, the state is to take over responsibility for all of Bremen's ports to speed up planning and implementation.

Since 2019 there have been separate departments for the economy and for ports. The CDU wants to merge them again. The state of Bremen should be in charge of all ports. This should make decisions faster.

The CDU commits to Bremen remaining a state of its own while wanting to make cooperation with Lower Saxony and surrounding municipalities permanent. The two states are to be developed as a shared "co-working space."

Bremen should remain its own state. But the CDU wants to work more closely with Lower Saxony. This covers business parks and buses and trains, for example. Large park-and-ride lots should be built at the city's edge.

The CDU wants to relieve Bremen's judiciary, which it considers overstretched, with more young lawyers and judicial assistants. Applications and hearings would also be available online more widely, and prison service jobs made more attractive.

The CDU wants more staff for the courts. Bremen should train many more young lawyers. Judges should get assistants. People should also be able to file court requests online.

The CDU wants to involve Bremen's Beiräte (district advisory councils) more closely in political decisions, especially in drawing up budgets. It sees the councils as the most important vehicle for political participation in the districts and wants the existing law on district councils to be put into practice.

Bremen has councils in its city districts. People work there as volunteers for their district. The CDU wants these councils to have more say. This matters most when the city plans its money.

The CDU wants to give district council members and Ortsämter (district offices) better technology and more staff. An app-based information system, digital meetings, and livestreams are meant to make volunteer work easier and more transparent.

The CDU wants to give district councils better technology. An app should show all documents in one place. Meetings should also be possible online. The district offices should get more staff.

The CDU wants to link the district councils with one another, set up a dedicated advisory office for council work, and define which level of government decides what. A street register for all of Bremen is to make clear who is responsible for which street.

District councils should learn more from each other. The CDU wants to create a special advice office for this. It should also be clear who decides what. A list of all streets should show who is in charge of each street.

The CDU wants to give youth councils more money and step up their exchange with the responsible government departments. It justifies this by pointing to the sharp rise in the number of these bodies.

In youth councils, young people do politics for their district. There are more and more of them. The CDU wants to give them more money. Government offices should talk with them more.

The CDU wants to strengthen the right to petition and make online petitions more user-friendly. In the future, petitions should also be able to aim at changes to laws.

With a petition, citizens can send a request to parliament. The CDU wants to strengthen this right. Online petitions should become easier. Citizens should also be able to push for changes to laws this way.

The CDU wants to create a unit for strategy and future analysis in the city hall and set priorities for the Senate's work. Two percent of the budget is to be reserved for pilot projects on which several departments work together.

The CDU wants a new unit in the city hall for planning the future. Experts from all departments should work there. The Senate, Bremen's government, should say clearly what matters most. Two percent of the state's money should go to new joint projects.

The CDU wants to make public service in Bremen more attractive in order to counter the shortage of skilled workers and applicants. It plans pay in line with the national average, an inflation bonus, more flexible working conditions and better staff development.

The CDU wants more people to enjoy working for the state. Pay should be as good as the average in Germany. There should be a bonus because prices are high. Staff should be able to work from home more often.

The CDU wants to check first whether new government tasks can be handled without additional positions. Money budgeted for unfilled positions is to go to projects that relieve staff of routine work.

The CDU does not want new jobs for every new government task. First it wants to check if there is another way. For example, with computers or less red tape. Money for empty positions should go to such projects.

The CDU wants to introduce a participatory budget that lets residents decide directly on part of Bremen's spending. Government departments would set aside budgets for each district for this purpose.

The CDU wants a participatory budget. People in Bremen would decide on part of the money themselves. Each district gets its own budget. The people who live there decide what matters most.

The CDU wants to merge overlapping responsibilities in Bremen's administration and digitize its processes. In its view, services from a single source work better and cost less.

The CDU wants to make the administration simpler. Often several offices do almost the same work. That should stop. Offices should also work more with computers and less with paper.

The CDU wants to reverse the growth in staff at the political top of the Senate departments and reduce staff and commissioner positions. In return, the tax office, youth welfare office, and housing benefit office would get more personnel.

The CDU wants fewer jobs at the top of government offices. Many new jobs were created there since 2019. Offices that work directly for people should get more staff. Examples are the tax office, the youth welfare office, and the housing benefit office.

The CDU wants to bring strategic management of public real estate together in a single department or agency. It says the current unclear division of tasks leads to long-term, expensive leases.

Bremen owns and rents many buildings. Several offices deal with them today. The CDU wants just one agency to be in charge. Bremen should mainly use its own buildings and rent less at high prices.

The CDU wants to get people in Bremen and Bremerhaven more enthusiastic about Europe and make the EU more visible locally. It sees a strong, united Europe as the answer to international crises and conflicts.

The CDU wants more people to be excited about Europe. The EU should be more visible in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The CDU says a strong Europe helps in crises. Europe also keeps the peace.

The CDU wants to make Bremen more attractive at night, arguing that going-out options outside the Viertel and Neustadt districts have shrunk. It plans a night mayor and a program for clubs.

The CDU wants more places to go out in Bremen. There should be a night mayor. This person takes care of nightlife. Clubs should also get support.

The CDU wants to anchor the Bunker Valentin more firmly in Bremen's collective memory as a site commemorating Nazi crimes. To that end, all school classes in Bremen would be required to visit it.

The Bunker Valentin is a reminder of the crimes of the Nazi era. The CDU wants to make this place better known. All school classes in Bremen should have to visit it. It should also be easier to get there.

The CDU wants to organize cultural funding by thematic priorities and make it more reliable. Revenue from the Citytax (lodging tax) is to pay for a fund that doubles private donations to cultural foundations. Grants, training and joint state-level funding for Bremen and Bremerhaven are also planned.

The CDU wants to fund culture in a new way. The money should be reliable and last longer. A new fund should double private donations to cultural foundations. The money comes from the Citytax. That is a charge on hotel stays. Young artists should get grants.

The CDU wants to promote exchange between cultural venues, schools and nursing homes and make culture more visible in schools. Libraries, adult education centers and museums are to be better equipped as meeting places. Cultural organizations are to receive funding for sustainable and climate-friendly operations.

The CDU wants more culture in schools. Artists should help in class. Students should visit theaters and museums more often. Libraries should be open seven days a week. They should have good technology and places to work.

The CDU wants artists to be paid on a mandatory basis when their work is shown in public exhibition venues. A fund of 100,000 euros is to enable the venues to pay. In doing so, the party backs the "Pay the artist" initiative of the artists' association BBK.

Artists show their work in exhibitions. Often they get no money for this. The CDU wants to change that. Public exhibition venues should have to pay artists. A fund of 100,000 euros should help.

The CDU wants to make the museums in Bremen and Bremerhaven more attractive and open them to research and the public through a digital culture strategy. The diversity of the theater landscape is to be preserved, and amateur theaters and the independent scene are to get more funding. The party also wants to support private commitment to culture.

The CDU wants to modernize the museums. People should also be able to visit museums online. The museums should get Wi-Fi. The theaters in Bremen and Bremerhaven should stay. Small and independent theaters should get more money.

The CDU commits to Radio Bremen as an independent broadcaster within the ARD network. In the debates about the future of public broadcasting, it wants to secure the station's continued existence.

The CDU wants to keep Radio Bremen. The station should stay independent. It is part of the ARD network. The CDU wants to stand up for it when people argue about public broadcasting.

The CDU wants to strengthen and better connect initiatives that build media literacy among children, young people and adults. It argues that people are increasingly becoming active participants on social media.

The CDU wants everyone to handle digital media well. This applies to children, young people and adults. Groups that teach this should get more support. They should also work together better.

The CDU wants to preserve regional news coverage and, where appropriate, add state money to federal support for newspaper distribution. Film and media funding through Nordmedia is to be reviewed and improved, with a focus on the games industry.

The CDU wants to keep regional newspapers. The state may help with money. The CDU also wants to check the funding for film and media. Companies that make computer games should get special attention.

The CDU wants to turn Bremen's city center between Am Wall and Martinistraße into a "Flanierstadt" (strolling city), with parking at its edges. The city center project office would be placed directly under the mayor in city hall. In the party's view, the problem is not a lack of ideas but a lack of implementation.

The CDU wants to make Bremen's city center nicer for strolling. Parking should be at the edge of the center. An office in city hall should lead the projects. The office should report directly to the mayor. The party says there are enough plans, but too little happens.

The CDU wants to enliven Bremen's neighborhoods with markets, culture, and festivals and to open public buildings to residents outside their regular hours. It argues that meeting places and services have disappeared from the neighborhoods.

The CDU wants to strengthen Bremen's neighborhoods. There should be more markets, culture, and festivals there. Schools and offices should open their rooms to clubs in the afternoon. School cafeterias should also offer meals to everyone nearby.

The CDU supports building the planned youth training center of the soccer club Werder Bremen in the Pauliner Marsch. Because the party says the project cuts deeply into this recreation area, a round table is to balance the interests involved.

Werder Bremen wants to build a center for young soccer players. It would stand in the Pauliner Marsch. That is a green area by the Weser river. The CDU is in favor of building it. But it wants to talk with everyone involved.

The CDU wants to preserve and support the work of churches and religious communities and expand cooperation with them. Believers of all faiths are to be protected from hatred and attacks, and the party wants to fight antisemitism firmly.

The CDU thinks churches and other faith communities are important. It wants to work with them more. No one should be threatened because of their faith. The CDU wants to fight hatred of Jews. Schools should play a special part in this.

The CDU wants to give the Verbraucherzentrale Bremen (consumer advice center) funding secured for five years. Easy-to-reach advice services in neighborhoods are to be expanded. The program cites sharply higher demand for advice during the coronavirus and energy crises.

The consumer advice center helps people with many questions. The CDU wants to promise it steady money for five years. That makes planning easier. There is to be more advice right in the neighborhoods.

The CDU wants to better equip food inspection authorities and make inspection results visible, for example in restaurants. Meals in daycare centers, schools and senior homes are to be healthy and ecologically responsible. The party also aims to reduce food poverty this way.

The CDU wants better checks on food. Guests are to see the inspection result in restaurants. Meals in daycare, schools and care homes are to be healthy. Food labels are to say clearly where products come from.

The CDU wants to promote and honor volunteer work more strongly. The state's engagement strategy is to be completed and put into practice, the Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card) upgraded, and associations such as food banks given more money. The goal is to win more people for volunteer work.

Many people help for free in clubs and groups. The CDU wants to support that more. The volunteer card is to bring more benefits. Important groups like food banks are to get more money. There is to be a Volunteer Day.

The CDU wants every child to be able to swim by the end of elementary school and to hold at least the basic swimming badge. School swimming lessons are to receive more money for this. The Unibad (university pool) is to be renovated instead of torn down.

Every child should be able to swim after elementary school. The CDU wants to spend more on swimming lessons. The university pool is not to be torn down. It is to be repaired.

The CDU wants to launch funding programs for renovating sports facilities and draw up a priority list to be worked through step by step. Energy cost subsidies for sports clubs are to be adjusted continually to rising prices.

Many gyms and pools need repairs. The CDU wants to provide money for this. A list is to show which facility comes first. Sports clubs are also to get help with energy costs.

The CDU wants to support athletic talent on the path to top-level sports. To that end, the Eliteschule des Sports (Elite School of Sport) at the secondary school on Ronzelenstraße is to be completed by 2027, along with modern training facilities.

The CDU wants to support young sports talent. Bremen should get an Elite School of Sport. This is a school for very good athletes. It should be ready by 2027. Training sites should also become more modern.

The CDU regards esports as part of recreational sports and wants to support it like traditional sports. At the federal level, it wants esports to be put on equal footing with sports in the Abgabenordnung (Fiscal Code).

The CDU sees esports as a real sport. Esports means people play video games in competitions. The CDU wants to support esports like other sports. Tax law should also treat esports the same way.

The CDU wants to expand easily accessible sports options for all age groups. According to the platform, sports benefit health and bring people together.

The CDU wants more easy sports options. Everyone should be able to join in. Sports are good for health. And people meet each other there.