CDU on other topics

The CDU wants to give clubs and volunteers more support after the pandemic, especially in recruiting young members. It plans permanent funding programs, tax relief, an advisory agency and a parliamentary study commission on volunteering.

Many clubs have too few young members after Covid. The CDU wants to help the clubs. It plans a campaign for youth work. Clubs should work more with schools. Volunteers should have lower taxes and less paperwork.

Together with the umbrella associations, a Saarland club platform is to be created to bring offerings closer to young people. Funding programs in the state budget are to be made permanent, and the volunteer pin and volunteer card used more often. The CDU supports tax relief such as a higher tax-free allowance for instructors, and is considering an initiative with other states. The Task Force Ehrenamt is to become a professional advisory office that also cuts red tape. Support is also planned for senior citizens' officers, offices and councils; older people with an immigrant background are to be recruited for local integration work.

The CDU wants to keep funding grassroots sports at the current level and suggests a third weekly PE lesson in schools. Swimming pools are to be covered by statewide planning. The platform sees sports as valuable for health, cohesion and integration.

The CDU wants to keep supporting sports in clubs. Schools should get a third PE lesson each week. The state should make a plan for swimming pools. Clubs and schools should work together more.

The sports planning commission is to keep financing good sports facilities. The CDU considers the third PE lesson especially important in elementary schools. Partnerships between clubs, kindergartens and schools are to grow, and school sports competitions are meant to get young people moving more. Because swimming pools cannot be run at cost, the platform calls for demand planning and coordination for the whole state.

The CDU wants to keep funding top clubs and develop the Hermann Neuberger Sports School into a training base for Olympic teams. Major sporting events are to receive state money. The platform expects benefits for the state's image, tourism and the regional economy.

The CDU wants to keep funding elite sports. The Hermann Neuberger Sports School should be upgraded. Teams should train there for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Big sporting events should also get money from the state.

The state committee for competitive sports is to keep funding top clubs, with good youth work as one criterion. The state sports federation is to receive money from the state budget to prepare the sports school for the 2024 Games in Paris. The state's location marketing is also to target major sporting events. The platform points to the existing network of the Olympic training center, the sports school, the sports medicine and sports science institutes, and the Gymnasium am Rotenbühl school.

The CDU wants to secure funding for sports, culture and other charitable causes through the state lottery company Saartoto. Online casino games in the Saarland are to be offered only through Saartoto and its casino subsidiary. The Sportachtel (one-eighth share for sports) for the state sports federation is to remain.

Saartoto gives money to sports, culture and other good causes. The CDU wants this to stay. Only Saartoto should be allowed to offer casino games online. The sports federation should keep getting its fixed share.

The CDU backs the rules of the 2021 Interstate Treaty on Gambling. A Saarland implementing law is to require that online casino games be tied to Saarland-Sporttoto and Spielbank GmbH. The platform justifies this with youth protection, player protection and addiction prevention, and with a stronger financial base for Saartoto. The Sportachtel is a revenue-based share that goes to the state sports federation and funds both elite and grassroots sports.

The CDU wants to keep funding the Saarland consumer advice center, including its digital advice service. The office that people threatened with power cutoffs can turn to is also to keep its support. The aim is protection against fraud, misinformation and harm.

The CDU wants to keep funding the consumer advice center. People get advice there, also online. It also helps when someone's power is about to be cut off. This help should stay.

Consumer policy is meant to protect against false information, fraudulent conduct and harm to health and finances. The platform regards the consumer advice center as independent help for people making their own decisions. Digital advice is named as an easily accessible service. The reporting and coordination office at the consumer advice center is to help avert power cutoffs.

The CDU wants to continue the project of an Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA, International Building Exhibition) for the Greater Region and launch a cross-border IBA. It sees opportunities for business, research, mobility and culture.

An International Building Exhibition is called IBA for short. It is about new ideas for cities, landscape and the region. The CDU wants to continue such a project together with the neighbors. It expects benefits for business, research, transportation and culture.

According to the platform, an IBA deals with the transformation of space and society and involves architecture, urban design, landscape planning and regional planning. A workshop lab at htw saar examined in a participatory process how such a project could work in the Greater Region. This produced ideas for sustainable development of the border region. The CDU wants to continue the project as a kind of think tank.