CDU on Europe

The CDU sees Saxony as a bridge between Western, Central and Eastern Europe and wants to strengthen ties with neighboring Poland and Czechia. This includes better transport and digital links and more exchange in culture, science and business.

Saxony is next to Poland and Czechia. The CDU wants to work more closely with these neighbors. There should be better train links to them. Culture, research and companies should exchange more too. Saxony should keep getting funding from Europe.

The region between Dresden, Wrocław and Prague is to be strengthened, including through efficient rail links to both neighboring countries. The CDU also wants closer cooperation with France, the Baltic states and other European regions and wants to promote language learning in Saxony. The Forum Mitteleuropa is to be linked with other dialogue initiatives. Saxony should continue to receive regional funding and investment so it can develop as an innovation region and a home for future industries.

The CDU wants to back projects that it believes will make the EU fit for the future, including a European defense union, protected external borders and a secure energy supply. At the same time it commits to subsidiarity and rejects excessive bureaucracy.

The CDU wants to help shape the European Union. Europe should be able to defend itself together. The outer borders should be protected. The energy supply should be secure. But the CDU does not want too much red tape from Europe.

The projects named also include reliable supply chains for critical goods, sustainable fiscal policy, tackling climate change and managing migration. The interests of the European economy are to be protected in global competition, and the EU should offer a competitive environment for innovation. The platform lists peace, freedom, democracy, the rule of law and subsidiarity as the EU's core values; subsidiarity means that tasks are handled at the lowest possible level.