CDU: program for the 2025 Hamburg state election

The CDU wants to strengthen Hamburg's economy through better general conditions rather than state intervention. It relies on less red tape, better infrastructure, a corporate tax reform and investment in new technologies. Its reasoning is that Hamburg has fallen behind in the competition between business locations.

The CDU wants to strengthen Hamburg's economy. Companies should face less red tape. Roads, networks and other facilities should get better. Company taxes should be reformed. Hamburg should do a lot for climate protection and hydrogen.

The CDU wants to keep Hamburg's port as a universal port, clear the backlog of investment, and gradually rebuild the quay walls. The federal government should contribute at least 500 million euros a year to the running costs of Germany's seaports, since the program sees the port as serving a national function.

The CDU wants to spend more money on the port. The quay walls should be rebuilt step by step. Ships should be able to reach the port reliably. The federal government should pay at least 500 million euros a year for German seaports.

The CDU wants to set up a regulatory sandbox called "Freihafen 2.0" where companies and start-ups can try out new technologies under relaxed rules. Anything permitted in any EU country should be permitted there as well.

The CDU wants to create a special area in Hamburg. It is called Freihafen 2.0. Companies should be able to test new technology there. The rules there should be looser. What is allowed elsewhere in the EU should be allowed there too.

The CDU wants to make the skilled trades more attractive to young people, including through a master craftsman exam with no fees and a trades day in schools. A parking permit valid across the city is meant to make daily work easier for trade businesses.

The CDU wants to support the skilled trades. The master craftsman exam should be free. Schools should hold a day about the trades. Tradespeople should get a parking permit for the whole city.

The CDU wants to counter rising vacancies in the city center by redesigning public squares and giving retail more targeted support. Additional flight connections are meant to bring more international visitors to Hamburg.

Many stores in the city center are empty. The CDU wants to make the city center nicer. Public squares should be rebuilt. Empty stores should be used for art and culture. More visitors from abroad should come to Hamburg.

The CDU wants business promotion to be judged less by new jobs and more by value creation. The cluster strategy is to be renewed and geared toward new technologies and links with science.

The city now supports companies mainly for creating jobs. The CDU wants to change that. What should count is how much research and development a company does. Companies in one industry should work more closely with science.

The CDU wants to strengthen Hamburg as an industrial location, actively recruit companies and keep enough land available for new sites and expansions. Additional land is to be found in central locations as well.

The CDU wants more industry in Hamburg. Companies should find enough space. The CDU wants to look for new land, even in the middle of the city. Industry and housing should be possible side by side.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg a city of founders, providing more funding, a Hamburg fund and a central service office. Founders should be able to focus on their business rather than paperwork in the early years.

The CDU wants more companies to be founded in Hamburg. Young companies should get more funding. There should be a special Hamburg fund. One central office should advise founders.

The CDU wants no further residential areas designated in the port and industrial zone, in order to keep room for energy production and technology. In neighborhoods, living and working are to be more closely linked, including trades in the inner city and venues for music clubs.

The CDU wants to protect land for industry and skilled trades. No new residential areas should be built at the port. In the districts, living and working should be close together. Music clubs should also find new places.

The CDU wants closer ties between science and business so that research turns into market-ready products and new companies. This includes start-up support, more programs in future-oriented fields, more dual study programs, and European start-up funds.

The CDU wants research and companies to work together more. Research ideas should become new products and firms. Students should learn how to start a company. There should be more dual study programs. In these, people study and work at the same time.

The CDU wants to raise the profile of the metropolitan region's health economy and build it up as a source of growth and jobs. A cross-agency overall strategy by the city government is to support companies and start-ups and connect them better.

Very many people in Hamburg work in the health sector. The CDU wants to strengthen this sector. It should bring more jobs. The city government should make a joint plan for this. The plan should help companies and young businesses.

The CDU commits to a strong welfare state that aims at overcoming poverty and helps those in need in a targeted way rather than spreading aid broadly. The state is to act firmly against abuse of social benefits. Authorities are to decide faster, and service providers are to get more planning security.

The CDU wants a strong welfare state. Help should go to people who really need it. The CDU wants to act firmly against benefit fraud. Offices should handle applications faster.

The CDU wants to favor bundled services in the neighborhoods over centralized facilities and encourage more civic involvement under the banner “Nachbarschaft verbindet” (neighborhood connects). Volunteer work is to be recognized and promoted because, in the platform's view, it strengthens cohesion and relieves the state.

The CDU wants to strengthen services right in the neighborhoods. People should do more for their neighborhood. New advice offices should help with this. The CDU wants to promote volunteer work.

The CDU wants to enable older people to live actively and independently: through fewer barriers, measures against loneliness, digital education alongside continued offline services, and an improved “Hamburger Hausbesuch” (home visit program). Working beyond retirement age is also to become easier.

The CDU wants to make life easier for older people. There should be fewer obstacles in daily life. Older people should get help with computers and phones. Services without the internet should stay. The CDU also wants to do something about loneliness.

The CDU wants more and longer-running work opportunities for the long-term unemployed and adequate funding for the subsidized labor market. People at risk of becoming unable to work are to get fast help from a single source.

Some people have been out of work for a very long time. The CDU wants more work programs for them. These programs should last longer. Social projects should get money for a longer time.

The CDU wants to examine whether women's shelters can be expanded and specialized, because in its view there are too few places. Debt counseling and suicide prevention are also to be expanded.

Women's shelters have too few places. The CDU wants to check if more places are possible. People with debts should get more advice. There should also be more help to prevent suicide.

The CDU wants to actively advise and support people without housing and keep winter emergency shelters open during the day in severe cold. Social and housing policy are to work together to secure enough housing for people in need.

Some people have no home. The CDU wants to help them more. In winter, emergency shelters should also stay open during the day when it is very cold. No one should freeze to death on the street.

Together with business and welfare associations, the CDU wants to draw up a plan that prepares Hamburg for an aging population. It is meant to set goals and measures for all areas affected.

Hamburg will soon have more older people. Many workers will retire. The CDU wants to make a plan for this. Companies and welfare groups should help write it.

The CDU wants to use the Bundesrat (the chamber of the states) to bring back the reduced 7 percent value-added tax rate for restaurants. This ties into its goal of strengthening restaurants and retail in the city center.

The CDU wants to lower the sales tax for restaurants. It should be 7 percent again. The CDU wants to push for this in the Bundesrat. The Bundesrat represents the German states.

The CDU wants to cut Hamburg's real estate transfer tax from 5.5 to 3.5 percent. This is meant to relieve buyers and trigger investment. At the federal level, it wants the tax suspended for a first purchase of a home the buyer lives in.

People who buy a house or land pay a tax. In Hamburg it is 5.5 percent of the price. The CDU wants to lower it to 3.5 percent. For a first home of your own, it should later be dropped entirely.

The CDU commits to the debt brake in Hamburg's constitution and wants to limit spending and staff growth in the administration. Investments in the future should still be possible without raising taxes for residents and businesses.

The CDU wants no new debt for Hamburg. The city should spend less money. The administration should not keep adding staff. Taxes should not go up.

The CDU wants to stop the growth of activities and debt outside the core budget and to increase transparency. The city's stakes in companies are to be reviewed wherever there is no important state interest.

The city of Hamburg owns shares in many companies. The CDU wants to check these shares. It asks: does the city really need this company? The city budget should also become clearer. The budget is the plan for income and spending.

The CDU wants to channel available budget funds into infrastructure and into Hamburg's strength as a place for science and business. To do so, it wants to attract more private money and make the administration more efficient.

The CDU wants to put more money into roads, buildings and research. The money should come from savings. Private investors should also take part. The administration should use fewer offices. New jobs should only be created if tasks are dropped elsewhere.

The CDU wants to award public funding in a targeted way rather than spreading it widely. Large programs and investments are to get goals up front and be checked for cost-effectiveness, with a later review of whether the goals were met.

The CDU wants to hand out funding in a more targeted way. Big projects should have clear goals from the start. The city should check whether a project is worth the money. Later it should check whether the goal was reached. City building projects should also be better organized.

The CDU wants to found an apprentice services organization together with chambers and associations to run dormitories for apprentices. The background is that midsize firms can hardly find affordable housing for their trainees.

Apprentices have a hard time finding a cheap place to live in Hamburg. So the CDU wants to found an organization for apprentices. It should run dorms for them. Students should also get more dorm places.

The CDU wants to boost housing construction through faster permitting. The administration is to be modernized and given more staff, review tasks are to shift to sworn architects and engineers, and the agencies involved are to be bound by deadlines.

The CDU wants building permits to come faster. City offices should become more modern and get more staff. If an agency does not answer in time, the application counts as approved. Experts such as architects should take on more responsibility.

The CDU wants to reverse the decline in social housing in Hamburg and continue subsidies for it reliably. The one-third mix rule for new construction is to stay in principle but could be relaxed depending on the area.

The CDU wants more social housing in Hamburg. These are low-cost apartments for people with little money. In new buildings, one third should still be social housing. Where there is already a lot of it, the rule can be relaxed.

The CDU wants targeted support for company housing and for apartments for trainees and students. The platform sees this as additional housing that is especially important for Hamburg as a business location.

The CDU wants to support housing for company employees. Trainees and students should also get more housing. The city should provide money and help find land. Permits should come faster.

The CDU wants more older office buildings converted into housing and plans to loosen planning and building law to that end. The platform points out that many companies need less office space because of remote work.

Many companies need fewer offices today. The CDU wants to turn old office buildings into apartments. The rules for planning and building should become simpler for this. It names City Nord and City Süd as examples.

The CDU wants to prevent additional requirements for new construction and renovation, both in Hamburg and at the federal level. Owners would decide for themselves how far and how fast to upgrade their buildings, with the carbon price and reporting duties serving climate protection.

The CDU wants no new rules for building. It says too many rules make building and rents expensive. Owners should decide for themselves how to renovate their buildings. The price on CO2 should take care of climate protection.

The CDU wants to make it easier for families with children and younger people to buy property through a city grant called "Hamburg-Geld." It would be accompanied by subsidized loans from the city's development bank and a waiver of land registry fees for first-time buyers.

The CDU wants to help families buy an apartment or a house. The city would add money. The CDU calls this Hamburg-Geld. People buying for the first time would also get cheap loans.

The CDU wants heritage protection applied according to uniform standards and with more restraint. In areas covered by a social preservation ordinance, landlords should again be able to carry out necessary repairs.

The CDU wants clear and equal rules for protecting historic buildings. Owners should not be left alone with the costs. In protected residential areas, landlords should be able to repair their buildings. The city should repair its own monuments in time.

The CDU wants denser and taller construction along Hamburg's main roads. This is meant to create many new apartments without paving over green space.

The CDU wants to build more apartments along big roads. Buildings there should be taller or get extra floors. That way green spaces stay free. The projects should start faster.

The CDU wants to revive the urban development project "Sprung über die Elbe" (Leap across the Elbe) and better connect and develop Harburg. The starting point is the Technical University, around which space for research, companies and housing is to be created.

The CDU wants to strengthen the borough of Harburg. Harburg should get better transport links. Companies and researchers should work together around the Technical University. There should be more dorms and apartments.

The CDU wants to develop downtown Hamburg, including HafenCity, according to a single plan. A coordination office with its own decision-making powers is to replace what the party sees as uncoordinated individual projects.

The CDU wants one overall plan for downtown Hamburg. HafenCity is part of it too. One office should steer everything and be allowed to decide. So far, the CDU says, there are only single projects without coordination.

The CDU wants housing included in every conversion and new construction project downtown, because in its view a lively center needs residents. Changes of use are to be made legally easier, and the city is to work with private investors.

Few people live in downtown Hamburg. The CDU wants to plan apartments in every building project there. The city should work with private investors for this. The CDU rejects a ban on furnished rentals.

The CDU wants to push in the Bundesrat for reversing the reform of Elterngeld (parental allowance), especially the lowered income ceiling. Self-employed people are also to be covered by Elterngeld as a rule. The stated aim is to ease financial and bureaucratic burdens on families.

The CDU wants to undo the changes to parental allowance. Parents with higher incomes should get it again. Self-employed people should get it too. Hamburg should push for this in the Bundesrat.

The CDU wants to improve the staff-to-child ratio in nurseries and give more support to childminders. To attract more skilled staff, training as a childcare worker is to be possible alongside a job and free of tuition everywhere.

The CDU wants more staff for small children in nurseries. Childminders should get more money and training. People should be able to train as childcare workers while working. The training should no longer cost tuition.

The CDU wants to keep and strengthen Hamburg's Kita-Gutschein-System (daycare voucher system). Payments to providers are to be reviewed scientifically and adjusted; a shared position for special-needs education is also planned.

In Hamburg, parents get a voucher for daycare. The CDU wants to keep this system. It wants experts to check whether daycare centers get enough money. Centers should also get help from special-needs educators. These are experts for children with disabilities.

The CDU wants to extend free daycare hours in Hamburg beyond the current five hours over the longer term. The platform justifies this with financial relief for families and easier access to childcare.

Today, five hours of daycare per day are free. The CDU wants to make more hours free later. This should save families money. Children should get a place more easily.

The CDU wants to work with providers to launch a website and app showing open daycare places and information about each center. This is meant to give families an overview and avoid multiple sign-ups on waiting lists.

The CDU wants an app for finding daycare places. The app shows open places and facts about each center. Parents then do not need to join many waiting lists. This saves them time.

The CDU wants to give open child and youth services more money and multi-year funding they can plan with. Family centers, outreach support and the “Frühe Hilfen Hamburg” (early support) program are to be strengthened. The platform argues that such services help spot social problems early and strengthen child protection.

The CDU wants to give more money to youth clubs and similar services. The money should be secure for several years. Meeting places for families should also get stronger. Parents in hard situations should get help early.

The CDU wants to spend more on maintaining and renewing public playgrounds and install more inclusive play equipment. Every district is to get at least one inclusive playground, and every neighborhood one with areas for young children.

Many playgrounds in Hamburg are in poor condition. The CDU wants to spend more money on playgrounds. There should be more equipment for children with disabilities. There should also be more toilets at playgrounds.

The CDU wants to implement the recommendations of the commission of inquiry on child protection and go beyond them. Youth welfare offices are to be monitored continuously, the organization of youth welfare reviewed from the ground up, and the child and youth emergency service better resourced. The platform cites deaths in which, it says, state child protection failed.

The CDU wants to protect children better. Youth welfare offices should be checked regularly. The emergency service for children should get more money, staff and rooms. Foster parents should get more help.

The CDU wants Hamburg to once again provide its own places in secure residential care with an educational focus. In the platform's view, the city would thereby take responsibility for young people who need this kind of placement.

Some young people need a home they cannot freely leave. The CDU wants Hamburg to offer such places itself. The city should take care of these young people. Trained educators should work with them there.

The CDU wants to link universities and research institutes more closely to the city's economic development. Hamburg University of Technology and the University of Hamburg are to grow as innovation hubs, and STEM programs are to receive more funding.

The CDU wants to connect Hamburg's universities more closely with business. More new companies should come out of the universities. Subjects like math, computer science and engineering should get more money. The universities should become more international.

The CDU wants to move the mandatory language assessment for children forward by one year, to age three and a half. Daycare centers are to receive reliable funding for language support. The platform argues that good German is the precondition for education and integration.

The CDU wants to test children's language earlier. The test should come at age three and a half. Daycare centers should get steady money for language help. In school, learning German should also come first.

The CDU rejects gender-inclusive language, which it describes as grammatically incorrect. The official rules of German spelling are to be the binding basis for teaching at all educational institutions in Hamburg.

The CDU does not want gender-inclusive language in schools and daycare. This means spellings like the gender asterisk. The party says they are wrong. The official spelling rules should apply.

The CDU wants to support every child individually from preschool through the end of lower secondary school, based on learning diagnostics, and to review whether the support works. Digital learning systems that adapt to each student's level are to assist.

The CDU wants to check closely what each child can already do. Then each child should get fitting help. Digital learning programs should help. They adapt to the child. Schools should check whether the help works.

The CDU wants all children to have a firm command of reading, writing, speaking, and arithmetic by the end of elementary school. Binding minimum standards are to apply. Children are to be able to stay in elementary school one year longer if needed.

The CDU wants fixed goals for elementary school. All children should read, write and do math well at the end. Children who need more time may stay one more year. What counts is learning, not how long it takes.

The CDU stands by the concept of self-governing schools but holds the education authority responsible for ensuring educational success. School supervision is to be better resourced, and the authority is to take over centrally those tasks that overwhelm individual schools.

Schools should still decide many things themselves. But the authority should help more and check better. It should take on tasks schools cannot manage alone. For example, it should review learning software.

The CDU wants to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in all areas of schooling and to set up more Schwerpunktschulen (schools specializing in inclusion). Parents are to keep the choice between special schools and inclusive mainstream schools. The quality of inclusion is to be monitored more closely.

Children with disabilities should be able to learn well. The CDU wants more schools with a special focus on this. Parents should still be allowed to choose the school. Special schools should get more staff.

The CDU commits to Hamburg's tiered school system and to parental choice between Gymnasium and Stadtteilschule (district school). Within these structures it wants more ability grouping and individual learning time. In the upper grades, advanced and basic courses are to return.

The CDU wants to keep the different school types in Hamburg. Parents should still be able to choose. Children should learn more according to their level. The upper grades should have advanced and basic courses again. Very gifted students should get more support.

The CDU wants to digitalize schools quickly but in an age-appropriate way and to integrate artificial intelligence responsibly into teaching. An official strategy and matching teacher training are planned. Traditional and digital learning methods are to exist side by side.

The CDU wants schools to go digital faster. This should fit the children's age. Teachers should learn how to handle artificial intelligence. Children learn some topics with AI and others the usual way. Teachers should not have to take care of the technology.

To counter the teacher shortage, the CDU wants to create a dual-track teacher training program as an additional path and offer more university and practical training places. Teachers are to be relieved of non-teaching tasks. A pool of mobile substitute staff is to reduce longer periods of canceled lessons.

The CDU wants more teachers for Hamburg. There should be a new way into the job: study and practice at the same time. Helpers should take work off teachers. When teachers are absent, substitute teachers should step in. Fewer lessons should be canceled.

The CDU wants to renovate school restrooms and have them cleaned more often, since students spend more time at school. School meals are to be healthy, regional, and seasonal, and elementary schools in disadvantaged areas are to offer breakfast. In all-day programs, homework is to be reliably completed and checked.

The CDU wants to renovate school restrooms. They should be cleaned more often. School food should be healthy. Some elementary schools should offer breakfast. In the afternoon, children should reliably do their homework.

The CDU wants every school to adopt binding rules on the use of digital devices and to limit use to what is educationally necessary. Smartphones are to be banned in elementary schools as a general rule. Regular student feedback on well-being is also to be introduced.

Every school should have fixed rules for phones and tablets. Phones should be banned in elementary schools. The CDU wants more teaching about good media use. Students should regularly say how they feel at school.

The CDU wants to set up a career guidance center and a citywide internship exchange. Curricula are to be reviewed for whether their content is useful for vocational training and university. The aim is fewer university dropouts and more skilled workers.

The CDU wants to help students more with choosing a job. A new center should show which job fits whom. There should be an exchange for internships across Hamburg. Companies should work more with schools. The curricula should be reviewed.

The CDU wants to strengthen dual vocational training, which it sees as a competitive advantage for Germany. Commercial apprenticeships are to become more attractive through models followed by a bachelor's degree. For the skilled trades, production schools, practice-oriented classes, and school workshops are to be supported.

The CDU wants to strengthen job training. After some training programs, a bachelor's degree should be possible. There should be more classes with lots of hands-on work. Schools should get workshops. More young people should start job training.

The CDU wants Hamburg's universities to allow open, democratic exchange of views and to keep violence, extremism, and antisemitism off campus. A central contact point for people affected by antisemitism is to be set up at the University of Hamburg.

The CDU wants safe universities. Everyone should be able to speak openly there. Violence and hatred of Jews should have no place there. People who face hatred of Jews should get help at the University of Hamburg.

The CDU wants to give public universities more and more reliable funding and to give their executive boards more freedom to decide. Private universities are to be more involved and linked with public ones.

The CDU wants to give universities more money. The money should come reliably. University leaders should decide more on their own. Private and public universities should work together more.

The CDU wants to create a Hamburg science foundation with at least 500 million euros in capital and to expand state research funding. The foundation is meant to make science less dependent on short-term budget cuts.

The CDU wants to start a foundation for science. It should get at least 500 million euros. This should give research steady money. Private donors should join in too.

The CDU wants to repair university buildings according to a priority plan and create a dedicated construction body for new ones. It also wants to fund a shared IT security concept for universities and to lobby for federal money for the PETRA IV research project at DESY.

Many university buildings are in bad shape. The CDU wants to fix them step by step. A special body should build new university buildings. Computer systems should become safer. The CDU wants to ask the federal government for money for the PETRA IV research machine.

The CDU sees a new building for the State and University Library (SUB) as advisable because, in its view, the current one has been decaying for years. It wants to examine whether the library, a "House of Technology," and rooms for the Academy of Sciences could be built together.

The big university library is in bad shape. The CDU thinks a new building makes sense. It wants to check if three institutions can share new buildings. These are the library, a House of Technology, and the Academy of Sciences.

The CDU wants more support for students because of Hamburg's high cost of living. It calls for a big-city supplement to BAföG (federal student aid), a stable price for students' Deutschland-Ticket, more dorm places, and better counseling for mental strain.

Life in Hamburg is expensive. So the CDU wants to help students more. They should get extra student aid. The transit ticket should not cost more. There should be more cheap places to live. Help with mental health problems should get better too.

The CDU wants to launch a program that brings students from abroad to Hamburg for future-oriented science and technology subjects. The background is that, according to the platform, the number of first-year students is set to fall.

The CDU wants more students from abroad to come to Hamburg. This is about subjects like math, computer science, science, and technology. A program should help them in the first year. For example with visas, housing, and language classes.

The CDU wants to give early-career researchers and student employees more reliable prospects. It considers fixed-term contracts sensible in principle but criticizes the widespread use of very short contract terms.

Many researchers only have very short work contracts. The CDU wants to give them clearer prospects. This also applies to students who work at the university. Hamburg should become more attractive for good researchers from around the world.

The CDU wants to improve staffing at the professional and volunteer fire departments and aid organizations and relieve ambulance services of non-emergency calls. It argues that the chance of getting timely help in Hamburg depends on where a person lives or happens to be.

The CDU wants to strengthen the fire department and ambulance services. The fire department should find new staff more easily. Ambulances should only come for real emergencies. For lighter cases, specially trained paramedics should come to the home.

The CDU wants to secure outpatient care through existing practices and rejects parallel structures such as Gesundheitskioske (walk-in health advice centers). The city government is to act as a partner to doctors, hospitals and insurers, cut red tape and provide sufficient hospital investment funding.

The CDU wants to strengthen family doctors and specialists. It does not want new walk-in health advice centers. Every district should have enough family doctors and children's doctors. Doctors and nurses should have less paperwork. Hospitals should get enough money for investments.

The CDU wants to create more university and training places in the health professions because demand is rising with demographic change. In addition, skilled workers are to be recruited abroad and their qualifications recognized faster.

Hamburg needs more doctors, nurses and therapists. So the CDU wants to create more places for study and training. It also wants to bring skilled workers from other countries. Hamburg should recognize their qualifications faster.

The CDU wants to change the fixed skilled-staff quotas in long-term care and make greater use of new job profiles under the supervision of qualified nurses. Family caregivers are to be supported through more counseling, training and short-term care places.

Long-term care lacks skilled workers. The CDU wants to change the fixed rules on the share of skilled staff. Helpers with shorter training should do more of the work. Family members should get more advice and courses. There should be more places for short-term care.

The CDU wants to revive the "Pakt für Prävention" (prevention pact) and work with many partners to improve the public's health knowledge. The focus is on young people, people at particular health risk, and people unfamiliar with the health system.

The CDU wants to prevent illness. To do that, it wants to revive an old alliance. It is called the prevention pact. Many groups should take part, such as schools, daycare centers and health insurers.

The CDU wants to undo cannabis legalization at the federal level and, until then, crack down in Hamburg on the supply of drugs to minors. Addiction services are meant to keep people alive but above all open ways out of dependency; the platform also addresses gambling and online addiction.

The CDU thinks legalizing cannabis was wrong. It wants to change that at the national level. Children and teenagers should grow up without drugs. Addicted people should get help to quit. The CDU also wants to fight illegal gambling harder.

The CDU wants to record the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in a continuously updated crisis management plan for all of Hamburg. This is meant to prepare the health and care system for disasters, crises and war.

The CDU wants to learn from the COVID years. Hamburg should get a plan for crises. The plan should always be up to date. The city should store protective equipment. This way doctors and nurses can still help in a crisis.

The CDU wants data protection rules to be applied more pragmatically for health research and wants Hamburg connected to the European Health Data Space. The city is to lead Germany in digitalization, telemedicine and artificial intelligence in health care.

The CDU wants to help health research. Data protection rules should be applied more loosely. Hamburg should be a leader in digital medicine. This includes treatment by video.

The CDU wants to ensure enough treatment and care services for people with mental illness, above all places in outpatient social psychiatry. It also considers secure residential places in Hamburg necessary.

People with mental illness should get enough help. The CDU wants more places for support in daily life. It also wants secure places in Hamburg. Then those affected do not have to live far away.

The CDU wants to manage and limit immigration and considers Hamburg's capacity for housing, schools and integration to be exceeded. Shelters are to be spread across the city in a socially balanced way and planned with public participation.

The CDU wants less immigration to Hamburg. It says the city has too little room in shelters and schools. Shelters should be spread evenly across the city. Local people should have a say.

The CDU wants to sharply reduce financial incentives for coming to Germany. In Hamburg it relies on a payment card and a work requirement for asylum seekers, and at the federal level on stricter rules for naturalization and dual citizenship. In its view, strong incentives draw especially many asylum seekers to Germany.

The CDU wants fewer asylum seekers to come to Germany. Refugees should get a payment card instead of cash. Asylum seekers in Hamburg should have to work. People who must leave the country should get no more money from the state.

The CDU wants more and faster deportations, including to Syria and Afghanistan for criminals and people classified as potential attackers. Anyone with protection status who travels to their country of origin for a vacation should lose that status automatically and be barred from re-entering.

The CDU wants to deport more people who are not allowed to stay. This should happen faster. Criminals should also be sent back to Syria and Afghanistan. Refugees who vacation in their home country should lose their protection.

The CDU advocates stationary checks at Germany's borders until, in its view, the EU's external borders are adequately protected. Anyone arriving from an EU country or a safe third country is to be turned back at the border.

The CDU wants fixed checks at Germany's borders. They should stay until the EU's outer borders are secure. People coming from another EU country should not get asylum in Germany. Police should turn these people back at the border.

The CDU wants to press the federal government to make it easier for skilled workers to come to Germany; credential recognition and visa procedures should be completed within one working week. At the same time, this immigration should stay separate from the asylum system, and counseling for people returning home should grow substantially.

Hamburg does not have enough workers. The CDU wants skilled workers from abroad to come more easily. Visas and recognition of job training should be done in one week. This should stay separate from asylum. People who want to go back to their home country should get more advice.

The CDU wants to reissue Hamburg's integration plan with measurable goals and clear responsibility for government, business and civil society. It sees integration as a task that demands effort from both immigrants and the host society.

The CDU wants to make a new plan for integration. Integration means that immigrants become part of society. The plan should have goals that can be measured. Government, companies and associations should share responsibility.

The CDU sees German language skills and integration into work as the most important conditions for successful integration. The state is to support both but also make them mandatory.

Immigrants should learn German and work. The CDU wants to help with that. But it also wants to make it a duty. Young people without a work permit should get community service tasks.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level to undo the recent reform of citizenship law and rejects fast-track naturalization. It sees naturalization as a possible final step of successful integration.

The federal government changed the rules for getting a German passport. The CDU thinks this was wrong and wants to undo the change. It rejects very fast naturalization. Ceremonies for new citizens at city hall should continue.

The CDU wants to implement accessibility and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities across all policy fields. The goal is for people with disabilities to take part in life fully and on their own terms.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The CDU wants to remove barriers for this. That applies to transport, buildings, work and school, for example. The people affected should have a say in the plans.

The CDU wants Hamburg's administration to write clearly and follow the official spelling rules. It rejects gender-inclusive language there because, in its view, that language is grammatically wrong and creates new barriers to understanding.

The administration should write in language everyone understands. It should follow the official spelling rules. The CDU does not want gender-inclusive language in the administration. This language uses, for example, asterisks inside words. The CDU says this makes texts harder to read.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg an internationally visible hub for renewable energy in northern Europe. To that end, the hydrogen network should grow outward from the port, and import terminals for hydrogen and related fuels should be planned faster.

The CDU wants Hamburg to be an important place for renewable energy. For this, there should be a network for hydrogen. It starts in the port and should grow quickly. Plants for importing hydrogen should also be planned faster.

The CDU calls for a funded plan to better prepare downtown for heat and heavy rain. More greenery is meant to cool streets and buildings, while infiltration areas and collection systems are to absorb rainwater.

Downtown Hamburg has very little green space. The CDU wants more plants and trees there. That should cool the city in hot weather. In heavy rain, open ground and special systems should take up the water.

The CDU wants to advance climate protection through new technologies, market incentives, and openness to all technologies, and rejects bans as a tool. The costs and benefits of measures are to be weighed scientifically.

The CDU wants to protect the climate with new technology. It rejects bans. It prefers incentives. Costs and benefits of each measure should be checked. The environment agency should get more staff and approve things faster.

The CDU wants to rely on incentives rather than legal obligations for energy retrofits of buildings and to adjust retrofit targets to costs and the shortage of skilled workers. In transport, e-mobility, green hydrogen, more charging points, and buses with alternative drives are meant to cut emissions.

The CDU wants buildings to use less energy. It wants incentives instead of duties. The targets should be doable. In transport, it wants to support electric cars and hydrogen. There should be many more charging stations. All buses should get new drives step by step.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg a leading location for renewable energy in Northern Europe and to bring in industrial manufacturing for it. The shift to a sustainable economy is meant to create new jobs in the metropolitan region.

The CDU wants Hamburg to lead in clean energy. Companies should build things like wind turbines or batteries here. The CDU wants to use land in the port for this. This should create new jobs.

The CDU wants to prepare Hamburg for the effects of climate change because, in its view, some changes can no longer be reversed. This includes a more capable sewer system, dike protection, and more attention to the urban climate in planning.

The climate has already changed. The CDU wants to prepare Hamburg for this. The sewers should get better. The dikes should protect the city. City and green planning should consider the local climate.

The CDU supports the broadest possible trading of emission allowances for greenhouse gases in Europe and worldwide. It welcomes European legislation on environmental and climate protection and commits to CO2 targets that are ambitious but, in its view, realistic.

Hamburg alone can hardly protect the climate. So the CDU wants more cooperation across borders. Those who emit greenhouse gases should have to buy rights for it. This should apply in Europe and worldwide. Large natural areas should be protected.

The CDU wants to pay for the overhaul of the energy system with subsidy programs, cheap loans and guarantees, so that energy and water do not become much more expensive. It also wants to expand the energy supply and give more support to electricity storage.

Changing the energy system costs a lot of money. The CDU wants to offer cheap loans for this. The city should also guarantee loans. This should keep power and water from getting much more expensive. The CDU also wants to support power storage.

The CDU wants to advance photovoltaics in Hamburg through a city subsidy program rather than mandates, and to put systems on public buildings. It rejects wind turbines right next to homes or in nature reserves and wants to make up for missing land through treaties with other states.

The CDU wants more solar panels in Hamburg. It wants to give money for this but not force anyone. City buildings should get solar panels. Wind turbines should not stand right next to homes. They should not stand in nature reserves either.

The CDU considers the current city government's heat planning flawed and wants to present an accurate heat map for every building. In addition, deep geothermal energy and waste heat from industrial processes are to be used more for heating.

The CDU wants to make a new heat map for Hamburg. The map should show for each building which heating is possible. There should also be advice and help with paying. The CDU also wants to use heat from deep in the earth. Heat from factories should no longer go to waste.

The CDU wants to preserve green spaces and protected areas, allow new paving-over of land only as an exception, and reopen sealed surfaces. According to the platform, trees, nature-oriented schoolyards and allotment gardens are meant to cool the city and secure quality of life.

The CDU wants to protect green spaces in Hamburg. Ground should only rarely be paved over. Paved areas should be opened up again. The city should replace street trees that were cut down. Allotment gardens should be safe until 2040.

The CDU wants to place at least one-fifth of Hamburg's forest under protection and to secure peatlands through protective measures and land purchases. It justifies this with the decline in biodiversity and the role of forests and peatlands in climate protection.

Hamburg has fewer and fewer kinds of animals and plants. So the CDU wants to protect more forest. At least 20 percent of the forest should be protected. The city should also buy and protect peatland.

The CDU wants to expand animal welfare in Hamburg through several individual measures, including a new animal shelter and a station for wild animals. Animal cruelty is to be pursued consistently.

The CDU wants to protect animals better. Hamburg should get a new animal shelter. There should also be a station for wild animals. Dogs should get more areas to run. People who are cruel to animals should be pursued.

The CDU wants to invest in the infrastructure of the Hamburg metropolitan region and sharply shorten planning and permitting procedures. It cites long delays in projects such as the Köhlbrand bridge, the A26-Ost highway and the Hamburg–Hanover rail line.

Big building projects take a very long time in Hamburg. The CDU wants planning and permits to go faster. For this, processes should become digital. Hamburg should work more closely with its neighbors.

The CDU announces a fundamental turnaround in Hamburg's transport policy: all modes of transport should stand side by side on equal terms, and everyone should choose how to get around. It regards the current policy of the SPD and Greens as one-sided and as a cause of congestion and parking shortages.

The CDU wants to change transport policy in Hamburg a lot. Cars, buses, trains, bikes and walking should matter equally. Everyone should decide for themselves how to travel. The CDU wants to offer options, not bans.

The CDU commits to the car as a means of individual mobility and for commercial traffic. It wants to repair and expand roads, provide enough parking, and rejects blanket bans on particular types of engine.

The CDU wants cars to have a future in Hamburg. The party says many people need a car. It wants to repair and expand roads. It does not want a ban on certain engines.

The CDU wants to cut congestion by coordinating roadworks better, drawing up a new general traffic plan, and equipping roads with an intelligent traffic management system. Traffic lights are to respond to traffic volumes so that synchronized green phases work.

The CDU wants fewer traffic jams in Hamburg. It wants to plan roadworks better. Traffic lights should detect traffic and switch more smartly. Some intersections should get roundabouts instead of lights.

The CDU wants to carry out major projects such as the A26-Ost highway and the Köhlbrand crossing and to lobby the federal government for funding. It also backs bypass routes around Hamburg and wants to repair roads and bridges.

The CDU wants to build new highways. These include the A26-Ost and a new Köhlbrand crossing. The federal government should pay for them. The party also wants to repair broken roads and bridges.

The CDU wants to concentrate traffic on high-capacity main roads and relieve residential streets. Main roads would generally have a 50 km/h limit, while residential streets and areas near sensitive facilities would have 30 km/h.

The CDU wants to gather traffic on the big roads. Drivers should be allowed to go 50 km/h there. Residential streets and areas near schools should have a 30 km/h limit. Big roads should not lose any lanes.

The CDU wants to increase road safety with more checks, traffic education, and safe routes to school. It points to rising accident numbers that it says particularly affect cyclists and pedestrians.

Hamburg has more and more accidents. So the CDU wants more traffic checks. Routes to school should become safer. The city should clear ice and snow from paths in winter.

The CDU wants to stop the removal of parking spaces, take out bollards, and build neighborhood garages. Resident parking zones are to be reviewed, and tradespeople would get their own parking permit.

The CDU wants more parking spaces in Hamburg. It wants to remove bollards and build garages for neighborhoods. It wants to review resident parking zones. Tradespeople should get their own parking permit.

The CDU wants to expand public transit and make it safe, affordable, reliable, and clean. It plans new and extended U-Bahn and S-Bahn lines, more frequent service, and free passes for apprentices.

The CDU wants more buses and trains in Hamburg. New subway and commuter rail lines should be built. Trains should run more often and be cleaner. Apprentices should ride for free.

The CDU wants to make park-and-ride facilities free for HVV transit subscribers and create up to 10,000 additional spaces. This is meant to get commuters to switch to commuter rail and subway and reduce car traffic into the city.

With park-and-ride, you park your car and continue by train. The CDU wants this to be free for people with an HVV pass. There should be up to 10,000 new parking spaces. That way fewer cars should drive into the city.

The CDU wants to relieve the overcrowded main station and connect southern Hamburg better by rail. In the long term, a ring line, the planned relief tunnel for the connecting railway, and a second Elbe crossing for trains are meant to achieve this.

Hamburg's main train station is very crowded. The CDU wants to take pressure off it. A new tunnel for commuter trains should come quickly. A second rail line across the Elbe river should also be built.

The CDU wants to make sidewalks safer and give pedestrians' concerns more weight. It plans repair funds for the districts, better lighting, and full-time pedestrian commissioners.

The CDU wants safe sidewalks. Every district should get money for repairs. Dark paths should get more light. In every district, one person should look after pedestrians.

The CDU wants bike lanes physically separated from the roadway and wants to halt and review all bike lane planning now under way. E-scooters are to be checked more and get fixed parking zones; as a last resort, the party would consider a ban.

The CDU wants separate bike lanes next to the road. Bikes should not ride between cars and trucks. It wants to stop and check current bike lane plans. E-scooters should get stricter rules and fixed parking spots.

The CDU wants to make more use of Hamburg's waterways for passenger and freight transport. The HADAG ferries are to run more often, and regular boat service is to return to the Alster.

Hamburg has a lot of water. The CDU wants more transport on the water. The ferries should run more often. Boats should also run regularly on the Alster lake again.

The CDU backs the airport near the city center and wants to make it more competitive by lowering the aviation tax and airport fees. At the same time, it wants to extend protection against aircraft noise.

The CDU wants to keep Hamburg's airport. Taxes and fees for flights should go down. That way more flights should leave from Hamburg again. The party also wants to protect neighbors better from aircraft noise.

The CDU wants to promote alternative drive systems and new transport technologies. This includes more charging points for electric cars, a stronger power grid, and more on-demand, car-sharing, and bike-sharing services.

The CDU wants more charging stations for electric cars. For that, the power grid should get stronger. The outer districts should get more on-demand ride services. The party is open to new technology such as self-driving cars.

The CDU wants to put Willy-Brandt-Straße in a tunnel. According to the platform, the multi-lane road separates Rathausmarkt from HafenCity; the party regards moving it underground as the most important project for a more attractive downtown.

Willy-Brandt-Straße is a big road in the middle of Hamburg. It cuts downtown off from HafenCity. The CDU wants to put the road in a tunnel. The area above would then be nicer to spend time in.

The CDU wants to make the rollout of high-capacity data networks such as fiber and 5G a priority with firm deadlines. Businesses should also get more help against cyberattacks.

The CDU wants to expand fast internet in Hamburg. That includes fiber and 5G. There should be clear deadlines for the rollout. The police should give companies more help against attacks from the internet.

The CDU wants to offer every government service digitally by 2030 and, where data protection law allows, handle it automatically without an application. Artificial intelligence is to support high-volume procedures and relieve staff, and legal hurdles to this are to be removed.

By 2030, people should be able to do all government errands online. Some things should happen automatically, without an application. Artificial intelligence should help the administration. This is a computer program that does tasks by itself. But a person always makes the final decision.

The CDU wants to add staff to the police, public prosecutors, courts and prisons. It plans to train more recruits and improve working conditions so that Hamburg can compete for new talent.

The CDU wants more staff for the police and the courts. Hamburg should train more people for these jobs. The staff should get better pay. The CDU hopes this will attract good new workers.

The CDU wants to modernize the technology of Hamburg's police. Uniformed officers are to receive tasers, bodycams and smartphones, among other things, and patrol cars are to be digitally connected.

The CDU wants to give the police new technology. This includes tasers. These are devices that use electric shocks from a distance. It also includes body cameras and smartphones. Patrol cars should get digital technology too.

The CDU wants to strengthen the forensic science and technology division of the State Criminal Police Office (LKA). It plans more staff and resources, a new building with laboratories, and greater use of specialized software and artificial intelligence.

Forensic experts examine traces left by crimes. Examples are fingerprints, blood or weapons. The CDU wants a new building with labs for this work. It also wants more staff and more computer programs.

The CDU wants more uniformed police and community officers on Hamburg's streets, including outside the city center. To relieve officers, more civilian police employees are to be trained and additional mobile police stations set up.

The CDU wants more police on the streets. This should apply to the whole city. Civilian employees should take over simple tasks from police officers. There should also be more mobile police stations.

The CDU wants to adapt the legal powers of the security authorities to the digital world. This includes more undercover investigations online, source telecommunications surveillance, remote searches of devices, data retention and the removal of data protection obstacles.

The CDU wants to give the police and the domestic intelligence service more powers. They should be able to investigate better on the internet. They should be allowed to secretly search suspects' computers and phones. Connection data should be stored in advance. Data protection rules should stand in the way less often.

The CDU wants to raise the maximum length of preventive detention in Hamburg from ten to 30 days. This is aimed mainly at people planning terrorist or extremist attacks.

The police may hold people as a precaution if they plan a serious crime. This is called preventive detention. Today it can last ten days at most. The CDU wants to allow 30 days. This is meant to protect against attacks.

The CDU wants to introduce weapon-free zones and video surveillance at more high-crime locations, such as Steindamm and the Phoenix-Viertel neighborhood. Cameras with software that detects behavior patterns are to be used more widely. Certain groups of offenders are to be banned from owning weapons.

The CDU wants to ban weapons in more places. There should also be cameras there. Some cameras should spot dangerous behavior on their own. A person then checks the video. Certain offenders should no longer be allowed to own weapons.

The CDU wants a zero-tolerance strategy against clans and organized crime. It plans a situation report on clan crime, more staff, joint operations by several agencies and faster confiscation of assets.

The CDU wants tougher action against criminal clans and gangs. The city should record exactly what clans own. Police, customs and local offices should carry out more joint checks. The state should take money and expensive cars from offenders more quickly.

The CDU is pushing for children to be criminally responsible from age 12 for serious crimes. It also wants Hamburg to have its own places in secure educational facilities, more prevention lessons and a review of the Juvenile Courts Act.

Today children can only be punished from age 14. The CDU wants this from age 12 for serious crimes. This means crimes such as murder or manslaughter. Hamburg should have its own secure homes for children who commit many offenses. Schools should teach more about violence and crime.

The CDU wants to strengthen the police and public prosecutors with staff and technology to fight crimes committed online. It plans further training, dedicated career tracks for IT investigators and digital crime reporting.

More and more crimes happen on the internet. The CDU wants more experts for this in the police and the prosecutor's office. There should be special career paths for computer investigators. People should be able to report such crimes easily online.

The CDU wants to work closely with people with a migration background to take action against criminals, extremists and enemies of the constitution. They are to be punished and, where possible, expelled.

The CDU wants to work together with immigrants. Together they should act against criminals and extremists. These offenders should be punished. Where possible, they should have to leave Germany.

The CDU wants to rebuild the district public order service that was dissolved in 2014. It is to penalize minor offenses, act against neglect in public spaces and relieve the police. Better street lighting and quick removal of graffiti are also planned.

The districts used to have a public order service. The CDU wants to bring it back. It should watch over rules in streets and parks. That gives the police more time for other tasks. Dark paths should get better lighting.

The CDU wants to shorten the time between a crime and the verdict. To do so, prosecutors and courts are to get more staff, and the accelerated procedure under the Code of Criminal Procedure is to be used more often.

A lot of time often passes between a crime and the verdict. The CDU wants to change that. Courts and prosecutors should get more staff. Suitable cases should go through a fast procedure.

The CDU wants to expand victim protection. The victim protection commissioner is to be responsible for all victims of crime and violence, and a fund is to pay damages and compensation for pain and suffering when offenders cannot pay.

The CDU wants to give more help to victims of crime. One central office should advise all victims. A fund should pay victims when the offender has no money. The fund later gets the money back from the offender.

The CDU wants to create additional places in the Maßregelvollzug (forensic psychiatric detention), which houses offenders with mental illness or addiction. In addition, prison places are to be reactivated in the regular prison system and more trainees recruited.

Some offenders are mentally ill or addicted. They go to a special secure facility. The CDU wants to create more places there. Prisons should also get more places and more staff.

The CDU wants to give state and federal security agencies additional powers against Islamism and step up online intelligence work. It argues that attack plots are often uncovered only through tips from foreign intelligence services and that young lone offenders radicalize online.

The CDU wants to do more against Islamism. Police and the domestic intelligence service should get more powers. The intelligence service should watch the internet more closely. Young people should get counseling online.

The CDU wants to expand prevention and exit programs against left-wing extremism and teach about it in schools. It also calls for a joint database covering the left-wing extremist scene. It sees Hamburg as a stronghold of that scene and points to the riots at the 2017 G20 summit.

The CDU wants to do more against left-wing extremism. Schools should teach about the dangers. There should be more help for people who want to leave the scene. The authorities should collect data on the scene in one database.

The CDU wants to better equip security agencies to fight antisemitism and to upgrade the office of the antisemitism commissioner. Other forms of hate crime are also to be recorded in statistics and prosecuted. Jewish life in Hamburg should be visible and safe.

The CDU wants to protect Jews in Hamburg better. The police should get more resources for this. The commissioner against hatred of Jews should get a stronger role. Hate against women, gay people and trans people should also be punished.

The CDU wants to expand civil defense and disaster response in Hamburg with a dedicated push and an operations plan. It points to the changed threat situation since Russia's attack on Ukraine, to cyberattacks and to more frequent extreme weather.

The CDU wants to prepare Hamburg better for emergencies. This means war, attacks on computers and severe storms. There should be a fixed plan for such cases. Volunteers should be trained, and there should be more drills.

The CDU says it will not tolerate political Islamism and wants to stop extremist religious activities. Hate preachers are to be expelled when the legal requirements are met.

The CDU wants to fight religious extremism. Extremists want to force their views on others. Hate preachers should have to leave Germany. This should apply when the law allows it.

The CDU wants to suspend the city's treaties with the Muslim associations. In its view, only partners that actively stand up for the agreed values and enforce them among their members should hold such treaties.

Hamburg has treaties with Muslim associations. The CDU wants to put these treaties on hold. It says the associations do not follow the shared values enough. Anyone who does not support Israel's right to exist should not be a partner of the city.

The CDU wants to tie public funding to two written declarations: a commitment to the free democratic basic order and one against antisemitism. This is meant to keep public money away from extremist organizers or projects.

Clubs and groups often get money from the state. The CDU wants a new rule for this. The groups should declare in writing that they support democracy. They should also declare that they are against hatred of Jews.

The CDU wants residents and businesses to deal with only one agency per matter and to get as many services as possible online. A Hamburg regulatory control council is meant to help reduce bureaucratic burdens.

The CDU wants to make government offices simpler. Only one office should handle each matter. People should be able to do many things online. A new body should check where there is too much red tape.

The CDU wants to strengthen the district centers in Hamburg's boroughs and simplify applications for neighborhood festivals and similar events. According to the platform, requirements and red tape make such projects too expensive and too burdensome.

The CDU wants to strengthen the centers of the city districts. Neighborhood festivals should be easier to hold. Applications for them should be short and simple. This should also help small clubs and volunteers.

The CDU wants to relieve the administration through fewer and clearer rules and new structures instead of more staff or money. Procedures are to become faster, and companies are to face fewer documentation and reporting duties.

The CDU wants fewer rules for the administration. The rules should also be clearer. Applications should be finished faster, for example for building. Companies should have to write fewer reports. For the CDU, more staff is not the answer.

The CDU wants to make Hamburg a more attractive employer in order to recruit good new staff at all career levels. Collective pay settlements are to apply to civil servants as well, alongside flexible hours, housing for employees and better protection from violence.

The city needs good staff. The CDU wants to make working for the city more attractive. Civil servants should get the same pay raises as other public employees. There should be flexible working hours and housing for employees. The CDU does not accept violence against staff.

The CDU wants the districts to handle administrative tasks close to residents and be reachable both in person and digitally. A mobile citizens' office, enough staff in the service centers and more digital guides are meant to help.

The district offices should be easy for people to reach. The CDU wants a citizens' office that comes to the people. It could stand at the weekly market, for example. The offices should have enough staff. Helpers should support people with digital applications.

The CDU wants more qualified staff in the district offices and better pay for specialists so the districts can compete with the state and federal levels. It also wants to raise the framework allocations to the districts.

The district offices do not have enough staff. The CDU wants to hire more people there. Specialists such as engineers should get more pay. The districts should also get more money for their regular tasks.

The CDU wants the Senate (Hamburg's state government) to be able to take over district decisions only on matters of citywide importance. Agreements with the districts are to come about only with their participation and consent.

The Senate, Hamburg's government, can take over decisions from the districts. The CDU wants to allow this only in a few cases. The issue must then matter for the whole city. The districts should be able to object. Then the Bürgerschaft, Hamburg's parliament, decides.

The CDU commits to the European Union and the single market and wants to bring more EU funding to Hamburg. Critical infrastructure, for example in the port, is not to go to opaque investors or foreign state-owned companies.

The CDU supports the European Union. It wants to bring more EU funding to Hamburg. This money should improve weaker neighborhoods and transport. Important facilities, like those in the port, should not be sold to foreign companies. The CDU is thinking mainly of China and Russia.

The CDU wants to deepen cooperation with France and the United Kingdom. Exchange programs for school classes with France, Poland and Britain are to grow again, and a new program is to be set up for apprentices.

The CDU wants to work more closely with France and Britain. School classes should travel abroad more often again. This applies to France, Poland and Britain. There should also be an exchange for apprentices.

The CDU commits to a strong Bundeswehr and wants to push at the federal level for much more funding, personnel and modern equipment. In Hamburg it supports building up a homeland security regiment.

The CDU wants a strong Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces. The Bundeswehr should get much more money, staff and equipment. Hamburg should get a homeland security regiment. That is a unit that protects the home country in an emergency.

The CDU rejects a civil clause at Hamburg universities, meaning a ban on research with possible military use. It argues that the Bundeswehr needs a high level of technology to fulfill its mission.

Some universities want no research for the military. This is called a civil clause. The CDU is against it. It says the armed forces need modern technology. Only then can they keep the peace.

The CDU wants to bring more career consulates back to Hamburg and step up economic cooperation with partner cities and metropolitan regions in the Global South. It backs the Bundeswehr (the German armed forces) in Hamburg and wants to reduce energy dependence on countries outside Europe.

The CDU wants more consulates in Hamburg. A consulate is an office that represents another country. Hamburg should work more with partner cities around the world. The CDU supports the German armed forces in Hamburg. Hamburg should depend less on countries outside Europe for energy.

The CDU wants to set up a sister-city partnership between Hamburg and the Israeli port city of Haifa. It sees this as a sign of solidarity with Israel and of Hamburg's historical responsibility.

The CDU wants a partnership with the city of Haifa. Haifa is a large port city in Israel. The CDU says Hamburg stands by Israel. It does not accept hatred of Jews in Hamburg.

The CDU wants to create a promenade on the Binnenalster lake on lengthened and widened jetties. In addition, cultural and academic buildings announced years ago are to be built quickly and combined where possible.

The CDU wants to build a long promenade on the water at the Binnenalster. There would be room for restaurants and for relaxing. Planned museums and libraries should be built faster. Some of them could move into one shared building.

The CDU commits to the freedom of art and culture and rejects boycott calls and intimidation. At the same time, a clause is meant to prevent public money from going to extremist or anti-constitutional organizers and content.

Art should be free. The CDU is against boycotts and intimidation. But extremists should not get money from the state. A new funding rule is meant to make sure of that.

The CDU wants the city's culture funding to rise at least in line with inflation. Access to culture should not depend on income, and barriers for people with disabilities should be reduced further.

The CDU wants to support culture in Hamburg. The city's money should rise when prices rise. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture. That includes people with little money or with disabilities.

The CDU wants to improve conditions for Hamburg's music scene and fund its institutions adequately where needed. It plans to improve pay for teachers at the Jugendmusikschule (public youth music school).

The CDU wants to strengthen music in Hamburg. Orchestras, clubs and choirs should have good conditions. The youth music school needs enough teachers. So the CDU wants to improve pay there.

The CDU wants a new external review of funding for Hamburg's private theaters so that it is sufficient and fair. The building of the Hamburger Kammerspiele theater should be bought back early if possible.

Hamburg has many private theaters. The CDU wants a check on whether they get enough money. Outside experts should do this check. The city should buy back the Kammerspiele theater building.

The CDU wants to draw up a plan that reviews the planned museum projects, ranks them by importance, and sets out costs and a timeline. Its priorities are the German Port Museum and the Evolutioneum in HafenCity.

Hamburg is planning several new museums. The CDU wants to make a plan for them. The plan should settle costs and timing. The port museum and a nature museum should come first.

The CDU wants the Bücherhallen (public libraries) to open more often on Sundays and holidays and to develop them into places for meeting and integration. Neighborhood culture is to receive targeted support, especially in districts with few meeting places.

The Bücherhallen are Hamburg's public libraries. The CDU wants them open more often on Sundays. People should be able to meet there. Culture in the neighborhoods should also get more help.

The CDU wants to keep monuments, memorial sites and historic street names in the cityscape and add context rather than remove them. The city itself should set an example in heritage protection and not demolish listed buildings.

The CDU wants to keep old buildings and monuments. Streets should keep their old names. Signs should explain the history behind them. The city should not tear down protected buildings.

The CDU wants a strategy that sharpens Hamburg's profile as a media hub and lowers barriers for companies to settle there. Training, universities and continuing education should supply enough skilled staff for journalism and the media industry.

Hamburg should stay an important city for media. The CDU wants to make a plan for this. Companies should find it easier to settle there. There should be enough skilled people for the media.

The CDU calls public broadcasting a pillar of democracy and at the same time wants to reform its structure and content. Costs should not rise while digital offerings are strengthened, for example through a single shared media library.

The CDU says public broadcasting matters for democracy. But it should change. It should not get more expensive. There should be one shared online library for all channels.

The CDU wants to step up the renovation program for sports facilities, end the sale of sports fields and build new ones. Among other things, this is meant to shorten waiting lists in children's and youth sports.

The CDU wants to repair sports facilities and build new ones. Sports fields should no longer be sold. Then more children can play sports in a club. Schoolyards should be open to everyone outside school hours.

The CDU wants to modernize and expand swimming pools so that schools and clubs get more water space. All children are to learn to swim, which the program sees as a vital skill in a city on the water.

All children should learn to swim. The CDU wants to renew and expand swimming pools for this. Schools should get more staff for swimming lessons. There should also be more free pool times.

The CDU wants to provide more money for sports funding and work more closely with clubs and associations. Volunteering, clubs' integration work, elite sports and sports events are to get more support.

The CDU wants to give sports clubs more money. Clubs also help immigrants settle in. They should get more help for that. Athletes who win an Olympic medal should get a higher bonus.

The CDU favors Hamburg hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2036 or 2040, also together with other German cities. It expects benefits for the city and wants to set standards for sustainable Games.

The CDU wants Olympic Games in Hamburg. The Games could take place in 2036 or 2040. Hamburg can also bid together with other cities. The CDU believes the Games are good for the city.

The CDU backs Hamburg's "religious education for all" and wants to support imam training in Hamburg that is free of foreign government influence. Christian holidays and traditions are to be protected and the churches' social work supported more strongly.

The CDU wants imams to be trained in Hamburg. Imams lead prayers in mosques. Other countries should have no influence on this. The CDU also wants to protect Christian holidays.

The CDU wants to make Jewish life in Hamburg more visible and supports rebuilding the Bornplatz Synagogue. Public institutions, especially universities, should actively protect Jewish people from attacks.

The CDU wants to protect Jews in Hamburg better. The synagogue at Bornplatz should be rebuilt. Universities should protect Jewish people from attacks. The CDU rejects all hatred of Jews.