CDU: program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

The CDU wants more industrial value creation in the state and relies on the surplus of renewable electricity as a locational advantage. Selected sectors are to be strengthened as clusters through state programs and together with universities.

The CDU wants more industry in the state. This industry should not harm the climate. Schleswig-Holstein has a lot of wind power. New factories should use this power. The state should give special support to certain industries.

The CDU wants to support shipyards and the maritime industry and give them planning certainty. It calls on the federal government to extend the protection of key technologies in naval shipbuilding to partial contract awards, so that contracts need not be tendered across Europe.

The CDU wants to help the shipyards in the state. Shipyards build ships. Orders for navy ships should go to local companies where possible. The shipyards should also build clean ships. They should also be able to remove old munitions from the sea.

The CDU wants to use the Fehmarnbelt fixed link and the Jutland route along the A7 highway to create new economic areas. The state is to make commercial land available there and actively court companies.

Soon there will be a tunnel to Denmark. The CDU wants new companies to settle along this route. The same goes for the route along the A7 highway. The state should promote itself as a place for business. A database should show free land for companies.

The CDU rejects additional state-level rules for businesses that go beyond national, European, or international standards. Permits are to be issued faster and administrative requirements cut.

The CDU wants no extra rules for companies only in Schleswig-Holstein. The rules of Germany and the EU should be enough. Permits should come faster. Offices should use their leeway to help small companies.

The CDU wants to eliminate competitive differences between brick-and-mortar retail and online retail. Its reasoning is that large online platforms on average bear a markedly lower burden of taxes and levies.

Shops in town struggle against big online sellers. The CDU says online sellers often pay less in taxes and fees. That should change. The same conditions should apply to both.

The CDU wants to continue the Meistergründungsprämie (start-up bonus for master craftsmen), fund master craftsman training, and make business successions easier. Municipal companies should not create additional competition for the skilled trades.

The CDU wants to help the skilled trades. Master craftsmen will keep getting money when they start or take over a business. Training to become a master craftsman should also get support. Companies owned by towns should not become new rivals for the trades.

The CDU wants to keep and expand the existing support facilities for founders. It will examine a central start-up competence center, and every university is to get at least one start-up adviser. Sector-specific accelerators are to be set up at university locations.

The CDU wants to help people who start a company. One central place should show all the help on offer. The CDU is checking whether to set it up. Every university should get at least one adviser for founders. Children should already learn about starting a business at school.

The CDU wants to cut red tape for new businesses and mobilize more private capital for start-ups. A patent fund is meant to help protect inventions from universities early on and increase the number of usable patents.

The CDU wants to make starting a company easier. There should be less paperwork. Experienced business owners should give money to young companies. A new fund should help inventors. It lets them protect their inventions with patents.

The CDU wants to link science and business more closely so that research results turn into products and services faster. An innovation agency is to be set up for this purpose. Companies and other private institutions are to be able to contribute to the financing of universities.

The CDU wants research and companies to work more closely together. Research should turn into new products faster. There should be an innovation agency for this. Companies should also be able to give money to universities.

The CDU wants to strengthen knowledge and technology transfer between universities and companies. Companies are to be able to contribute to university funding. So-called hub structures are meant to enable cooperation in further research fields.

The CDU wants universities and companies to work together more. Companies should be able to give money to universities. There should be shared centers for research. Art schools and creative companies should also work together more closely.

The CDU wants to guarantee the continued existence of all commercially used ports in the state and develop them further. Shipping is to become more sustainable, for example through more shore power and cheaper berths for low-emission ships. The port development plan is to be updated.

The CDU wants to keep all ports that matter for the economy. Ships in port should use power from land more often. Cleaner ships should pay less for a berth. The CDU also supports cruise ships.

The CDU wants to update the state's tourism strategy together with associations, municipalities and businesses. New funding is to strengthen tourism in inland areas. Youth tourism, angling tourism and accessible tourism are to be added to the strategy.

The CDU wants to strengthen tourism in the state. Places away from the coast should also get more guests. There should be new funding for this. Beaches should also be reachable for people who have trouble walking.

The CDU wants to keep the current Bäderregelung (resort rule) for places with heavy tourism. The rule lets shops there open on Sundays as well. The party sees no need for changes.

In vacation towns, shops may also open on Sundays. This is called the resort rule. The CDU wants to keep this rule as it is. It does not want to change anything.

The CDU wants to keep expanding sustainable tourism and health tourism in Schleswig-Holstein. This includes making full use of the summer vacation window, EU funding for tourism, and keeping the Bäderregelung (special Sunday shopping rules for resort towns).

The CDU wants to strengthen tourism in the state. Vacations should be kind to the environment. Health vacations should also grow. Summer school breaks in Germany should be spread over 90 days. The Bäderregelung should stay. This rule lets shops in resort towns open on Sundays.

The CDU wants to overhaul and simplify planning and permitting procedures at state and federal level. In the program's view, long planning periods hold back innovation and put climate targets at risk.

Big building projects often take a very long time. The CDU wants to make planning faster. Procedures should become simpler and digital. This should also help protect the climate.

The CDU wants to make laws and regulations clearer and reduce bureaucracy. Those affected are to be involved earlier when rules are drafted, and regulations are generally to be time-limited.

The CDU wants less red tape. Red tape means many rules and forms. People affected should have a say early on new laws. Many regulations should apply only for a set time.

The CDU wants to work out a regional innovation strategy with Hamburg that brings overlapping initiatives together. Research and business settlement around the large research facilities XFEL and DESY are to be promoted. The party intends to take up the recommendations of an OECD report on the metropolitan region.

Schleswig-Holstein should work even more closely with Hamburg. Both states should make a shared plan for new ideas and research. Companies should settle near large research sites. Both also want to advertise tourism together.

The CDU wants to make town and village centers more attractive by turning vacant commercial space into housing or social facilities. A state program is to help retailers set up regional online shops.

The CDU wants livelier town centers. Empty shops should become homes or daycare centers. Local stores should get help with online shops. Towns should use land more carefully.

The CDU wants economically weaker regions in Schleswig-Holstein to benefit more from funding programs. A new competence center is to help municipalities obtain federal money. Co-financing shares in funding programs should depend on the financial strength of states and municipalities.

Some regions in the state are economically weak. The CDU wants to help them more. A new office will help towns apply for funding. Poorer states and towns should have to add less of their own money.

The CDU wants everything to be reachable from the village, either on site or digitally. To that end, village shops, country inns, multi-purpose community buildings, and the MarktTreff concept are to be supported and regional value creation strengthened.

People in villages should be able to get what they need. The CDU wants to keep village shops and country inns. Where they are gone, there should be buildings with several uses. Pickup stations for online orders should help too.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for more flexible statutory maximum working hours, as far as European law allows. Within the state, co-working offerings and new forms of work are to be supported.

The CDU wants looser rules on working hours. Workers should have to agree to this. It should help families and people who care for relatives. There should be shared offices across the state. These are called co-working spaces.

The CDU wants to draw more skilled workers from people already living in Schleswig-Holstein. Better childcare is meant to lower the share of part-time work and help women in particular work more. The state's skilled-labor initiative FI.SH is to be developed further.

The state does not have enough skilled workers. The CDU wants to win more people who already live there. Better childcare should help. Then more women can work longer hours. People without jobs should also get better training.

The CDU wants to establish shared offices in rural areas and support them through a funding guideline. In its view, this strengthens villages, makes it easier to balance work and private life, and cuts commuting and thus emissions.

The CDU wants shared offices in the countryside. People can work there close to home. Then they have to travel less. That is good for the climate and for families.

The CDU wants the state to take on more responsibility for child poverty, even though many support services are the job of municipalities. Existing support for children and young people is to be strengthened, and those involved are to be connected at a statewide child poverty conference. The aim is for opportunities not to depend on a child's family background.

Many children in Schleswig-Holstein are poor. The CDU wants the state to do more about this. Help for children and young people should get stronger. There should be a big meeting on child poverty. Experts should share ideas there.

The CDU wants to draw up a state plan against loneliness in old age and support local help. Older people should be able to gain digital skills, while non-digital services remain in place. Upper age limits for civic engagement are to be reviewed.

Many older people are lonely. The CDU wants to make a plan against this. Older people should be able to learn how to use digital devices. Those who cannot should still get services without the internet. The CDU wants to review age limits for volunteering.

The CDU wants to continue the state's accessibility fund and remove barriers in public facilities, public transit, health care and housing. It sees inclusion as a task that cuts across all policy areas and justifies removing barriers with participation in society.

People with disabilities often face obstacles. The CDU wants to remove these obstacles. The state has a fund for this. The CDU wants to keep it going. There should be more homes, doctors' offices and buses without obstacles.

The CDU wants to open the way into regular companies for more people with disabilities and build an inclusive vocational training system. Sheltered workshops for people with disabilities are to change over the long term.

People with disabilities should find regular jobs more easily. The CDU wants to work more with companies for this. Job training should also be open to everyone. Workshops for people with disabilities should change over time. First the CDU wants to test new ways of working.

The CDU wants to continue the state hardship fund set up during the coronavirus period on a permanent basis, mainly to support food banks. Funding to fight poverty is to keep rising, and homeless people are to get easier help finding housing.

The CDU wants to help poor people. During the pandemic there was a fund for people in need. It should stay for good. The money should mainly help food banks. Food banks give food to poor people. People without a home should find housing more easily.

The CDU commits to the Schuldenbremse (debt brake) and wants to close the gap in the state's financial planning without raising taxes. The main reason given is fairness between generations.

The CDU wants the state to take on almost no new debt. This rule is called the debt brake. Taxes should not go up for this. The state should slow its spending growth and still invest a lot.

The CDU wants to move the state budget over the coming years from cash-based accounting to Doppik, the double-entry bookkeeping modeled on commercial law. This is meant to avoid misallocation and make decisions easier for citizens to follow.

Today the state only records income and spending. The CDU wants a different kind of bookkeeping. It is called Doppik. It also shows assets and debts. This should make it clearer how the state handles money.

The CDU does not consider the federal model for the Grundsteuer (property tax) the best method and wants to use the opt-out clause for the states. Schleswig-Holstein is to get its own model, which the party sees as simpler and fairer.

Owners of land and houses pay property tax. The federal government has a model for it. The CDU finds it too complicated. It wants a separate, simpler model for Schleswig-Holstein.

The CDU wants to act more firmly against tax fraud, aggressive tax planning and money laundering, and to tax corporations where they generate their revenue. At the same time, dealing with the tax office is to become simpler and more digital.

The CDU wants to fight tax fraud and money laundering harder. Big corporations should pay taxes where they earn money. People should be able to file taxes online. In simple cases an app should be enough.

The CDU wants the tax system to take children into account more, give single parents relief and flatten the progressive tax curve. It keeps Ehegattensplitting (joint taxation of married couples), and the income tax schedule is to be adjusted continuously to price trends.

The CDU wants families to pay less tax. This applies especially to single parents. Middle incomes should also pay less. Taxes should not rise quietly when prices rise. Joint taxation for married couples should stay.

The CDU rejects a new wealth tax and any tightening of inheritance and gift tax. It argues that collecting such taxes takes a great deal of effort and would drain mid-sized businesses of money they need for investment.

The CDU does not want a tax on wealth. The tax on inheritances and gifts should not get stricter either. The CDU says such taxes take a lot of effort. And businesses need their money to invest.

The CDU wants to exempt people in Schleswig-Holstein from the property transfer tax when they buy their first owner-occupied home. The state's tax rate is also to fall to the national average. The platform argues that many families cannot save enough equity.

People buying their first home should pay no property transfer tax. This applies if they live in it themselves. The tax should also go down for everyone else. The CDU mainly wants to help young families.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for allowances paid for volunteer work to remain tax-free up to €1,000 a month.

Some volunteers get a small payment for their work. The CDU wants no tax on this up to 1,000 euros a month. It wants to push for this at the national level.

The CDU wants to keep rents affordable by making construction easier and by funding social housing. According to the platform, affordable housing is part of a good life.

The CDU wants rents to stay affordable. To do this, building should become easier. The CDU also wants to support social housing. These are low-cost homes for people with little money.

The CDU wants to keep funding student housing with state money and create additional dorm places. In addition, applications for BAföG (student financial aid) are to be processed faster.

The CDU wants more dorm places for students. The state should pay part of this. Providers other than the Studentenwerk should also build. Applications for student aid should be handled faster.

To counter high rents, the CDU relies on more housing construction and rejects the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and a rent cap, which it calls blunt and symbolic politics. Instead, reliable and flexible conditions for investment are to apply. The state's housing offensive is to continue.

The CDU wants more homes to be built. It says many homes are the best protection for renters. It rejects a rent brake. That is a rule that limits rents.

The CDU wants to strengthen social housing support for people with low incomes, subsidize new construction and extend rent and occupancy restrictions on existing units. Wohngeld (housing benefit) is to rise. It wants to tackle social housing occupied by households that no longer qualify through pilot projects, without tenants having to move out.

The CDU wants more low-cost homes for people with little money. The state gives grants for this. The housing benefit should go up. People who now earn more may stay in their social housing. Another home should then become social housing instead.

Because building land is becoming scarce, the CDU wants to make better use of existing sites: renovate vacant units, convert commercial and barracks sites, and fill gaps between buildings. To this end it plans a digital register of vacant lots and a building land fund with a loan volume of 100 million euros for municipalities.

Land for building is running short. So the CDU wants to use empty buildings and free plots in towns. A digital list should show these plots. Towns get money to make homes possible there.

Because raw materials are scarce, the CDU wants to rely more on sustainable, reusable building materials and launch a timber construction offensive. Buildings are to switch from fossil to renewable energy sources without overburdening low-income households.

Building materials are scarce. So the CDU wants to build more with wood. Recycled building materials should also be used more often. Homes should run on renewable energy. People with little money should not pay too much for this.

The CDU rejects binding regulations as a way to enforce climate action in housing. Instead, it wants to reach agreements with the housing industry and look at whole neighborhoods rather than individual buildings.

The CDU does not want to force climate action in housing. It wants to make deals with housing companies. The whole neighborhood should count, not each single building.

The CDU wants to help municipalities set up digital building authorities everywhere. The explosive ordnance clearance service is to be strengthened and process requests within three months at most.

The CDU wants building offices everywhere to work digitally. The state should help towns do this. The service that looks for old bombs should get faster. It should take three months at most.

The CDU wants to support new routes to owning a home, such as rent-to-own or cooperative solutions. The Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein (the state's development bank) is to make purchases possible even with little equity through its loan programs.

The CDU wants to support new ways to own a home. One example is rent-to-own. You pay rent first and own the home later. The state's bank should help with loans.

The CDU wants to rethink urban planning and reduce land consumption. It proposes funding programs for building plots allocated in small parcels and for new, land-saving forms of construction.

The CDU wants building to use less land. There will be funding for this. Towns should hand out small building plots. Old sites should be used again.

The CDU wants to enable older people to live independently in the surroundings they choose. To do so, funding for housing suited to seniors is to be expanded, and on-demand bus services are to be supported statewide and developed further. The needs of older people are also to count for more in transport and infrastructure.

Older people should decide for themselves where they live. The CDU wants to give more money for suitable housing. Buses that come on request should get better across the state. Streets and paths should suit older people better.

The CDU wants Schleswig-Holstein to lead Germany in the ratio of qualified staff to children in daycare centers by 2027. According to the platform, this requires enough well-trained staff and good working conditions.

The CDU wants more trained staff in daycare centers. Each staff member should care for fewer children. By 2027, the state should be at the very top in Germany. This takes enough well-trained people.

The CDU wants to further lower the fees parents pay for childcare. Low-income families and families with several children in particular are to get relief so that all parents can afford care.

Parents pay money for daycare. The CDU wants to lower these fees further. This should mainly help families with little money. Families with many children should also pay less. Everyone should be able to afford childcare.

The CDU wants to allow more flexible and longer opening hours at daycare centers. They are to be geared to the needs of working parents, especially single parents and those working full time, making it easier to combine family and work.

The CDU wants different opening hours at daycare centers. They should be open longer and more flexibly. This should help parents who work. Single parents in particular should have an easier time.

The CDU wants to increase the number of daycare places across the state, including in nurseries for the youngest children. Local governments are to be supported with state funds so that every family gets the care it needs.

The CDU wants more places in daycare centers. There should also be more places for very young children. The state gives towns and cities money for this. Every family should get a suitable place.

The CDU wants to further raise incentives and pay for home-based childminders. This is meant to increase the number of childminding places across the state and give parents more choice.

Childminders care for children in small groups. The CDU wants to pay them more. Then there should be more of these services. Parents across the state should have more choice.

The CDU wants to expand family centers and family education facilities and secure their funding for the long term. Families should get advice on government benefits in one place close to home, and in the future also online. The party also wants to promote family-friendly working hours more strongly.

The CDU wants to strengthen family centers. Families should get advice there on all government help. The advice should be close to home. It should also be available online. The money for the centers should be secure for a long time.

The CDU wants to expand the preventive programs "Frühe Hilfen" (early support) and "Schutzengel" (guardian angel) so that more pregnant women, young parents, and families receive counseling and practical help. Foster families are to get closer support, and new foster families are to be recruited.

The CDU wants to grow the programs "Frühe Hilfen" and "Schutzengel." They help pregnant women and young parents. There are too few foster families. Foster families take in children who cannot live with their parents. The CDU wants to find more of these families.

The CDU wants to work through the Bundesrat so that months of Kurzarbeit (short-time work) are left out when Elterngeld (parental allowance) is calculated. This is meant to protect young parents from unforeseeable financial shortfalls. In addition, registering a child online should automatically trigger child benefit and the child tax allowance.

In short-time work, people earn less. Then the parental allowance is also smaller. The CDU wants to change that. Months of short-time work should not count in the calculation. Parents should also be able to start child benefit easily online.

The CDU wants to launch a pilot project for a mobile children's and youth center in rural areas. It cites the lack of leisure activities outside school and the growing importance of loneliness. At the same time, schools and child and youth services are to work together more closely.

In rural areas there are few leisure activities for children and young people. So the CDU wants to test a youth center that travels from place to place. Young people can meet there. Schools and youth services should also work together more closely.

The CDU wants to make safeguarding plans against violence toward children and young people mandatory outside of school as well. Daycare centers and schools already have this obligation. In addition, a justice system attuned to children is to be strengthened further.

Daycare centers and schools must already have plans to protect children from violence. The CDU wants to require this for other activities for children too. This should also protect against sexual violence. Courts and agencies should respond better to children's needs.

The CDU advocates a uniform nationwide scheme of financial help for fertility treatment. It is to be open to unmarried couples as well. The aim is for as many people as possible to be able to have the children they want.

Some couples cannot have a child although they want one. Treatment can help, but it costs money. The CDU wants financial help for this across Germany. Unmarried couples should get the help too.

The CDU wants to give more support to pregnancy conflict counseling. The Lübeck pilot project "biko," which reimburses women on low incomes for prescription contraceptives, is to apply statewide. Education about sexuality and contraception is meant to reduce the number of abortions.

The CDU wants more support for counseling centers for women with unplanned pregnancies. Women with little money should get contraceptives paid for. So far this exists as a project in Lübeck. It should apply across the whole state. More education should lead to fewer abortions.

The CDU wants to introduce an exercise lesson together with all-day schooling. Sports clubs and other providers are to take part. All-day programs in elementary school are also to be well developed and of high quality.

The CDU wants an exercise lesson at schools. Children should move and play sports there. The lesson is part of all-day school. That is school with activities in the afternoon. Sports clubs should help.

The CDU wants to significantly expand the practice-integrated training program (PiA) for childcare workers and introduce a training wage. In the medium term, this is to become a dual vocational program. The aim is to meet the growing demand for daycare staff.

The CDU wants to train more childcare workers. They should get paid during training. The training should be offered in every county. Later it should take place at school and at work at the same time. This is called dual training.

The CDU wants to pilot a screening of children at age four and a half to identify special educational needs early. Daycare centers and elementary schools are to cooperate and introduce joint support programs.

The CDU wants to screen children at four and a half years old. This will be tested first. It shows early on whether a child needs help. It is about language and movement. Daycare and elementary school should then help together.

The CDU wants an inclusion drive for daycare centers so that inclusion is practiced in all facilities. Specialists from various fields are to support staff and parents on site.

The CDU wants more inclusion in daycare. Inclusion means children with and without disabilities are together. This should be the case in all daycare centers in the state. Specialists should help staff and parents.

The CDU wants daycare centers (Kitas) to prepare children more deliberately for school. An "Education Plus" program and binding educational standards are meant to achieve this.

The CDU wants daycare to prepare children better for school. There will be a new program for this. All daycare centers will follow fixed rules on learning.

The CDU wants to introduce education for sustainable development and democracy education in every daycare center in the state. It also wants more nature daycare centers and closer cooperation with cultural institutions.

Children should learn about the environment and democracy in daycare. This should happen in every daycare center in the state. The CDU also wants more nature daycare centers. Daycare centers should work more with cultural institutions.

The CDU wants children in daycare and elementary schools to be more physically active. It argues that play and sports have a lasting positive effect on the health of children and teenagers.

Children should move more. This applies to daycare and elementary school. The CDU says exercise is good for health. Elementary schools will have one exercise lesson every week.

The CDU wants to establish a professorship for early childhood education in Schleswig-Holstein. It is to come with a dual bachelor's program and a master's program.

The CDU wants to create a new professorship. It will deal with education for young children. Two new degree programs will go with it.

The CDU wants to add one lesson per week in each of the first two grades of elementary school to strengthen German and math. Small elementary school sites are to keep receiving state support.

Children in grades 1 and 2 will get one more lesson. The lesson is for German and math. Small elementary schools should stay open. The state will help them.

The CDU wants to develop the Gymnasium (academic-track school) and the Gemeinschaftsschule (comprehensive school) as equally valued school types, each with its own profile. At comprehensive schools, learning groups are to be split by ability and final exams made mandatory for all.

The CDU wants to keep both school types. The Gymnasium prepares students for university. The Gemeinschaftsschule prepares students for all diplomas. There, students will learn in ability groups from grade 7.

The CDU wants computer science to be a required subject at every secondary school starting in fifth grade. The aim is to familiarize students early with skills for the future.

All students should learn computer science. The subject will be required from grade 5. The CDU wants to train more teachers for it.

The CDU wants to strengthen foreign-language teaching and try out new models such as bilingual and heritage-language classes. International school options are to be created in the state's large cities.

Students should be able to learn more foreign languages. Children from immigrant families should also be able to learn their family's language. Large cities should have international schools.

The CDU wants to anchor economic education and a startup culture at secondary schools across the state. STEM offerings such as student labs and the MINT-Akademie (STEM academy) are also to be expanded.

Students should learn how the economy works. They should also learn how to start a business. The CDU also wants more offers for math, computer science, science and technology.

The CDU wants to give independently run schools more support with teaching permits and with finding qualified staff. Parent and student councils are also to get better conditions for their work.

The CDU wants to support private schools. They should find teachers more easily. Parent and student representatives should also be able to work better.

The CDU wants to keep teaching coverage above 100 percent permanently in order to reduce canceled lessons. An alliance for teacher education is meant to help recruit more teachers, especially in shortage subjects.

There should be enough teachers so fewer lessons are canceled. The CDU wants to recruit more teachers. Teachers are especially missing in math, computer science and science. An alliance will improve teacher training.

The CDU wants to require teachers to document at least 15 hours of continuing education each year. Digital education is to get a fixed place in both initial training and continuing education.

Teachers will have to take further training every year. It must be at least 15 hours a year. They should mainly learn more about digital teaching.

The CDU wants to expand all-day programs at elementary schools by the 2026/27 school year so that the legal entitlement to all-day care can be met step by step. The state and the federal government are to help school authorities pay for rooms and staff.

The CDU wants more all-day school for young children. All-day school means children are also cared for in the afternoon. There should be enough places by 2026/27. The state and the federal government should pay part of the cost.

The CDU wants to keep supporting school authorities with building and renovating schools beyond 2023. This is to be accompanied by a model room plan and new state school-construction advisers.

The CDU wants to keep giving money for school buildings. This should continue after 2023. There should be advisers for school construction. They will mainly help small school authorities.

The CDU wants to continue and further develop the program that gives extra funding to schools in socially challenging areas. This includes more German-language courses, also for parents, and breakfast at these schools.

Some schools have a harder job than others. They get extra money. The CDU wants to keep this program. There should be more German classes, also for parents. These schools should also offer breakfast.

The CDU wants to permanently offer school-based learning and care programs during vacations. It points out that such programs proved their worth in the post-COVID catch-up program.

The CDU wants learning programs during school vacations. They should be offered permanently. Children can learn there and are looked after. The federal government should keep helping to pay.

The CDU wants to launch a pilot project for free hygiene products at secondary schools. It argues that the cost and insecurity associated with menstruation can keep girls away from class.

The CDU wants to start a trial at schools. Schools would offer free period products. Otherwise some girls miss class. The CDU wants to prevent that.

The CDU wants to pool individual student aides, school assistants and school social work in joint teams with regional budgets and expand them statewide. It argues that school has long been more than a place for teaching knowledge and therefore needs other professions alongside teachers.

Schools do not only have teachers. There are also aides for individual children and social workers. The CDU wants to bring these people together in one team. Each region gets a fixed budget for this. There should be more such teams across the state.

The CDU wants to create more positions for special education teachers and introduce binding statewide standards for inclusion. The benchmark remains a 2016 expert report that puts the need at 493 additional positions.

Inclusion means children with and without disabilities learn together. The CDU wants to hire more special teachers for this. The same fixed rules should apply across the state. The job should become more attractive.

The CDU wants to keep Förderzentren (special needs centers) with their own students so that individual support is available there when needed. In addition, learning groups are to be created for children with special needs in emotional and social development.

Förderzentren are schools for children who need special support. The CDU wants to keep these schools. There should also be new learning groups. They are for children with behavior problems. Later these children should return to their class.

The CDU wants to systematically identify, train and develop leaders in schools and reform how leadership posts are filled. School supervision, especially the local school offices, is to be strengthened.

The CDU wants better training for principals. It wants to find teachers early who can lead well. The way leaders are chosen should be changed. Local school offices should be able to give more support.

The CDU wants to continue and expand career guidance programs on a permanent basis. Jugendberufsagenturen (youth employment agencies) are to be set up in all regions of the state to support the transition from school to work.

Students should learn about jobs early. The CDU wants more programs for this. There should be youth employment agencies everywhere in the state. They help young people start their working life.

The CDU wants to introduce a statewide identifier for students. It is meant to improve education reporting and make changes within a student's educational path less bureaucratic.

Every student should get their own number. The CDU calls this a student ID. It should make changing schools easier. The state also wants better figures on education this way.

The CDU wants to keep the six types of vocational schools and secure dual vocational training with a master plan. Vocational schools are to be equipped to modern standards and able to work digitally.

The CDU wants to strengthen vocational schools. All six types of vocational school should stay. A plan should secure classes in rural areas too. The schools should get good equipment.

The CDU wants to make it easier to move between school-based vocational training, apprenticeships, and university by having qualifications credited across these paths. It also plans to found an open vocational university that links apprenticeships with higher education.

The CDU wants school and job training to count everywhere. What you learn at a vocational school should count in an apprenticeship. A job qualification should also count at university. The CDU also wants a new open vocational university.

The CDU wants to give above-average support to technical and science-oriented tracks at vocational schools. It justifies this with the shortage of skilled workers in STEM occupations.

Technical jobs lack many skilled workers. So the CDU wants to give extra support to technical subjects at vocational schools. STEM means science, technology, engineering, and math. Training for ship officers should also get better.

The CDU wants to launch an app that shows training and career paths and makes open apprenticeship and internship positions visible. It is also meant to help university dropouts move into an apprenticeship faster.

The CDU wants an app that helps people choose a career. The app shows which jobs and training paths exist. It also shows open apprenticeships and internships. It should promote apprenticeships in companies in particular.

The CDU wants fewer young people to leave vocational schools without a qualification. To that end, training-preparation programs and vocational integration classes are to be further developed.

Some young people leave vocational school without a qualification. The CDU wants this to happen less often. Preparation classes should get better. Young people should start an apprenticeship in a company sooner.

The CDU wants to recruit more teachers for vocational schools and keep classroom staffing above 100 percent. To do so, teacher demand is to be forecast for these schools as well, and career-changer routes into teaching are to become more attractive.

Vocational schools lack teachers. The CDU wants to win more people for this job. People from companies should be able to become teachers more easily. There should still be enough lessons.

The CDU wants to draw up a statewide strategy for continuing education and write it into law. Funding, digital offerings, and networking among providers are to be developed further so that continuing education carries more weight in people's educational paths.

The CDU wants a plan for adult learning in the state. Adult learning means grown-ups learn new things for work or daily life. The plan should be written into a law. There should be a website with courses. The course providers should work together more closely.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for merging BAföG (student aid) and Aufstiegs-BAföG (aid for career advancement training) and for lifting the age limit. Aid should also depend less on parents' income.

BAföG is state money for students and trainees. The CDU wants older people to be able to get BAföG too. BAföG should depend less on how much the parents earn. Two kinds of BAföG should become one.

The CDU wants to expand basic education centers in order to lower the share of adults who cannot read and write well enough. People who catch up on their first general school diploma at a continuing education institution should no longer pay fees for it.

Some adults cannot read and write well. The CDU wants more places where they can learn this. These places are called basic education centers. Adults who catch up on their first school diploma should not have to pay.

The CDU wants to keep increasing university funding year by year in order to reach adequate core financing. The money remains tied to target agreements and the university contract. The platform justifies this with new demands from digitalization, AI, and sustainability.

Universities should get more money every year. The CDU says the money is not yet enough. In return, universities agree on goals with the state. Private universities should also be able to get funding.

The CDU wants to create the conditions at universities for significantly more people to complete a teaching degree, especially in shortage subjects. The reason is the forecast high demand at elementary schools and particularly at Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive-type secondary schools).

The state will need many new teachers. So the CDU wants to train more people to become teachers. Universities get money for this. Digital topics should matter more in the degree.

The CDU wants to provide more money for university buildings and for research buildings in university medicine. It will examine a dedicated property agency for university buildings in order to clear the investment backlog. Renovations are to be used to upgrade the buildings' energy performance.

Many university buildings need to be renewed. The CDU wants to give more money for this. It is looking at a separate agency for these buildings. It would build and maintain them. Later the buildings should run without harming the climate.

The CDU wants to launch a Digital-Pakt Hochschule (digital pact for universities) together with the federal government to improve universities' digital equipment. In addition, the digital skills of teaching staff and students are to be strengthened and more state funds provided.

Universities should get better digital technology. The CDU wants a joint federal and state program for this. It is called Digital-Pakt Hochschule. Teachers and students should get better at using digital tools. Libraries should become more digital too.

The CDU wants to promote top-level research with a state excellence strategy and a dedicated budget. The main focus is on Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität) becoming a University of Excellence.

The CDU wants to give special support to very good research in the state. There should be a plan and separate money for this. Kiel University should become a University of Excellence. That is a title for especially strong universities in Germany.

The CDU wants to strengthen research institutes outside the universities and bring more departments and branch offices to the state. To this end it plans a Fraunhofer strategy and a dedicated state budget. Lübeck is to become a center for AI in medicine and medical technology.

There are research institutes outside the universities. The CDU wants to bring more of them to the state. The state should set aside its own money for this. There should be a special plan for the Fraunhofer institutes. Lübeck should become a strong place for AI in medicine.

The CDU wants to fund top-level applied research at all types of universities. The focus is on energy transition and hydrogen research as well as digitalization and artificial intelligence. In the medium term, a dedicated competence center for energy transition research is to be created.

The CDU wants more research at universities. The research should be useful in practice. Key topics are energy, hydrogen and artificial intelligence. Later, there should be a center for energy transition research.

The CDU wants to keep the statewide semester ticket permanently and ensure that more students complete their degrees. Psychosocial counseling at universities is to grow considerably because, in the party's view, the Covid measures put heavy strain on students. Teaching is to take place mainly in person.

The CDU wants to keep the semester ticket. Fewer students should drop out. There should be more counseling for mental stress. Teaching at universities should mostly happen on site.

The CDU wants to give universities more responsibility of their own and amend the Higher Education Act for that purpose. The extended senate is to be abolished. At the same time, universities are to reach further into society, among other things through places for science communication.

The CDU wants universities to decide more on their own. For this, the university law should be changed. One body, the extended senate, should be dropped. There should also be places where everyone can experience research.

The CDU rejects civil clauses at universities, meaning self-commitments to conduct research only for civilian purposes. It also rejects requirements to use gender-inclusive language, especially when they affect how exams are graded. It bases this on academic freedom and on official spelling rules.

Some universities want to do research only for peaceful purposes. This is called a civil clause. The CDU is against it. It is also against rules that require gender-inclusive language. This should not affect exam grades in particular.

The CDU opposes the wearing of a burqa or niqab in university classes and exams. It sees this clothing as a sign of the oppression of women and considers visible facial expressions and gestures necessary.

A burqa and a niqab cover the face. The CDU does not want this in university classes and exams. It says this clothing stands for the oppression of women. People should be able to see each other's faces when they talk.

The CDU wants to introduce first aid and resuscitation courses in school lessons. It also calls for more physical activity during the school day, healthy school lunches and condom vending machines at secondary schools. The platform points to the effects of too little exercise and to Scandinavian countries as a model for first aid training.

Children should learn first aid at school. They should move more during the school day. School lunches should be healthy. Secondary schools should have condom vending machines. This is how the CDU wants to improve children's health.

The CDU wants to introduce a mandatory civic service year at secondary schools, lasting one school year. The aim is to introduce young people to volunteering early on.

The CDU wants a civic year at schools. Students then help at a club or group for one school year. They do this one afternoon a week. Everyone has to take part.

The CDU wants to strengthen democracy education in daycare centers and schools and add one hour of compulsory instruction in economics and politics (WiPo) in lower secondary school. The platform cites populism, conspiracy theories and falling voter turnout as reasons.

The CDU wants more civic education. Children should learn about democracy even in daycare. Schools should teach one more hour of economics and politics. Children and teenagers should learn more about extremism.

The CDU wants to keep religious education in schools organized by denomination and points to its protection under the Basic Law. It also plans an initiative for more dialogue among religions and with non-believers.

The CDU wants to keep religion classes in school. Children should learn about their own religion. They should also learn about other religions. The CDU also wants more talks between the religions.

The CDU wants to work with Islamic associations to introduce Islamic religious education in the state and conclude talks on an agreement. Together with other states, degree programs in Islamic theology are to be developed.

The CDU wants to set up Islamic religion classes in schools. It is talking with Islamic associations about this. The goal is a formal agreement. There should also be university training for imams and teachers. The training must be in German.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for a tax on sugary drinks based on their sugar content. It also calls for transparent food labeling and, at the EU level, a science-based Nutri-Score.

The CDU wants a tax on sweet drinks. The more sugar a drink has, the higher the tax. The federal government should introduce this tax. Food labels should clearly show how healthy a product is.

The CDU wants to keep medical care close to home in cities and rural areas, relying on independent, self-employed practices. Cooperation, regional health centers and digital services are meant to close gaps, especially in the countryside.

The CDU wants everyone to have a doctor nearby. This matters most in rural areas. Doctors should be able to work together more easily. There should be health centers in areas with few doctors. Online doctor visits should also become more common.

The CDU wants to fund hospitals better: alongside per-case flat rates there is to be a base payment for standby costs, and the federal government is to contribute to investments. A commission of inquiry in the state parliament is to deliberate by consensus on the future of the hospital landscape.

Hospitals should get enough money. Today they are paid per treatment. The CDU also wants a fixed base amount. The federal government should pay more for buildings and equipment too. A group in the state parliament should discuss the future of hospitals.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) and carry out the UKSH future pact. The hospital is to work more closely with smaller hospitals. The party also wants the Master Plan for Medical Studies 2020 implemented quickly.

The UKSH is the big university hospital in the state. The CDU wants to keep modernizing it. It should work more closely with small hospitals. Medical training should also get better. More young doctors should stay in the state.

The CDU wants to expand preventive health services, with particular attention to mental health. Awareness work in schools and workplaces is meant to reduce the stigma attached to mental illness. According to the platform, prevention pays off many times over and eases the burden on social insurance systems.

The CDU wants more services that keep people healthy. Mental health matters most to the party here. People should be able to talk openly about mental illness. Schools and workplaces should inform people about it. Help and therapy should be available everywhere in the state.

The CDU wants to expand addiction counseling and provide additional money for prevention. It will not tolerate open drug scenes and plans to tackle them together with drug counseling services, social organizations and the police. Municipalities are to remain free to set up supervised drug consumption rooms.

The CDU wants more counseling for people with addictions. Waiting times should get shorter. The party will not accept open drug scenes. Police and counseling services should work together there. Cities may still set up rooms for supervised drug use.

The CDU rejects the legalization of drugs, citing health risks and long-term effects. If the federal government legalizes cannabis anyway, the party wants tight controls on sales in the state and scientific monitoring. Places frequented by many children and young people are to be drug-free and checked more closely.

The CDU does not want drugs to be made legal. It says drugs harm people's health. The federal government may allow cannabis anyway. Then the CDU wants strict checks on sales in the state. Children and teenagers should be better protected from drugs.

As a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDU wants to build up reserves of medical goods and staff for emergencies. The public health service is to be better equipped, and pandemic plans updated and rehearsed regularly. The party also wants vaccination rates to be as high as possible.

The CDU wants to learn from the COVID years. There should be stocks of medicine and protective gear. Public health offices should get more staff and better technology. Pandemic plans should be practiced regularly. Many people should get vaccinated.

The CDU wants to create more university places for midwives so that obstetric care and prenatal and postnatal support are available everywhere in the state. It also pushes for appropriate pay and reliable conditions for midwives.

The CDU wants more study places for midwives. Midwives help before, during and after birth. There should be enough midwives everywhere in the state. They should be paid properly.

The CDU wants to expand outpatient care, counseling, and short-term and day care so that people can be cared for at home longer. Family caregivers are to be relieved and better covered in terms of pensions. Combining caregiving and a job is to become easier.

Many people are cared for at home by their family. The CDU wants more local help and advice for this. There should be more places for short-term care and day care. People who care for relatives should not become poor because of it. Caregiving and work should fit together better.

The CDU wants to make nursing and care professions more attractive to ease the shortage of skilled workers. In its view this includes appropriate pay, more training places and programs for people returning to the profession. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized with little red tape and trainees recruited abroad.

There are not enough skilled care workers. The CDU wants to make care jobs more attractive. Pay should match the hard work. There should be more training places. People from other countries should also be won for care work.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for further development of long-term care insurance. The share that people in need of care pay themselves is to stay stable and limited so that care does not lead to poverty in old age. It also calls for more statutory minimum staffing levels in residential elder care.

Care in a nursing home costs a lot of money. People pay part of it themselves. The CDU wants this part to stop rising. No one should become poor in old age because of care. Nursing homes should have fixed rules for enough staff.

The CDU wants to expand hospice care in the state, both inpatient and at home. Palliative care is to be strengthened as well. People should be able to experience the end of life with dignity and with as little pain as possible.

The CDU wants more hospices and more hospice care at home. A hospice looks after people at the end of their lives. Palliative care should also get stronger. It eases pain for very sick people. Dying people should be able to live with dignity.

The CDU wants degrees and qualifications earned abroad to be recognized more easily and more quickly. It plans to push for this at the federal level and to speed up procedures at the responsible state office. The federal Skilled Immigration Act is to be put to use in the state.

Many skilled workers earned their degree in another country. The CDU wants these degrees to count faster. The state office should work faster. The federal government should also improve the rules.

The CDU wants to press the federal government once more for the so-called Spurwechsel (lane change). It would let people apply for immigration not only from abroad but also when they are already in Germany.

The CDU wants a new federal rule. It is called Spurwechsel, or lane change. People could then apply for immigration while already in Germany. Today this mostly works only from abroad.

The CDU wants to actively recruit skilled workers abroad for Schleswig-Holstein through a campaign, partnerships, and recruitment projects in at least three countries. A welcome center is to serve employers and newcomers as a central point of contact. The stated goal is more targeted immigration of skilled workers.

The CDU wants to bring skilled workers from other countries. There should be ads abroad for this. At least three countries should get fixed projects. A welcome center should help companies and new workers. It is one central place for all questions.

The CDU commits to taking in people in need of protection and also wants to promote targeted immigration of skilled workers. It cites humanitarian responsibility and a growing skills shortage, while pointing to limited reception capacity.

The CDU wants to keep helping people in need. Refugees should get protection. The state also needs skilled workers from abroad. The CDU wants to support their immigration. But it also says the state cannot take in unlimited numbers.

The CDU wants to end the stay of people with no claim to protection and enforce the obligation to leave the country, especially for criminal offenders. People arriving without identity papers are to receive binding substitute documents whose details can only be changed if they themselves provide proof.

Some people are not allowed to stay in Germany. The CDU wants them to actually leave. This applies above all to criminals. People who arrive without ID should get a substitute paper. Anyone who wants to change its details must prove them.

The CDU wants to expand language and integration programs and make them more practical, while expecting immigrants to learn German quickly. It describes integration as a matter of both support and demands.

The CDU says learning German matters most for integration. It wants to offer more language courses. The courses should help women in particular. There should also be more online courses. But the CDU expects immigrants to learn German quickly.

The CDU wants to press the federal government to give a job more weight in deciding whether someone may stay in Germany. Alongside language, it sees work as a central condition for integration.

The CDU thinks work is important for integration. People with a job should have a better chance to stay. The CDU wants to push the federal government on this. The federal government makes these rules.

The CDU wants to give towns and cities more support for their integration services, since it sees integration as happening locally. It also plans statewide naturalization ceremonies, multilingual information campaigns and quick distribution of people granted asylum to housing across the state.

Integration happens in towns and villages. The CDU wants to give them more support for this. People who become German should get a ceremony. Important information should come in several languages. Refugees with protection should quickly be able to live anywhere in the state.

The CDU wants leadership positions in the state administration, in state-owned companies, and in companies majority-owned by the state to be filled half by women and half by men. The public sector is to lead the way. Time taken for family should not harm careers, and more women are to be attracted to STEM professions.

The CDU wants more women in leadership positions. In the state administration, equal numbers of women and men should lead. This also applies to companies the state owns. People who care for children should not be at a disadvantage at work. More women should choose technical jobs.

The CDU aims for parliaments and municipal councils with equal numbers of women and men and wants to keep filling the state government on a parity basis. However, it rejects legal quotas for parties' candidate lists. Instead, political work is to become more family-friendly, for example through digital and hybrid meetings.

The CDU wants more women in politics. But it does not want a law with fixed quotas for party lists. Politics should fit better with family life. Meetings should also be possible online. There should be childcare during meetings.

The CDU considers gender-sensitive language important but sees its use as fundamentally a private matter. Government agencies and state institutions should apply it only within the rules of the Council for German Orthography; the party rejects gender symbols there as a matter of principle. Schools are to follow these rules as well.

The CDU says language should address women and men. In private, everyone should decide for themselves how to write. Government offices should follow the official spelling rules. The CDU rejects symbols like the gender asterisk there. Schools should also teach by these rules.

The CDU wants to further strengthen women's counseling centers, child protection facilities and the KIK network against domestic violence. Prevention work in schools is to grow, and affected men are also to receive counseling and protection. The platform argues that prevention is the best protection against violence.

The CDU wants to prevent violence in families. Counseling centers for women should get more support. Schools should teach more about the topic. Teachers should get training for this. Men who suffer violence should also get help.

The CDU wants to provide enough places in women's shelters across the state and set uniform quality standards. Women who do not need a shelter should quickly get a home of their own.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The CDU wants enough places across the state. A new shelter is planned in the north. All shelters should be equally good. Women should also find a home of their own faster.

The CDU wants people with disabilities to be able to decide about their own sexuality and to be better protected from sexual violence. To that end, support services and staff training are to grow.

People with disabilities should decide about their own sexuality. The CDU wants to protect them better from sexual violence. There should be more counseling and therapy for this. Professionals should also learn more about it.

The CDU wants to continue and expand the state action plan against racism, with a focus on prevention. At the same time, it opposes what it sees as sweeping accusations of racism and wants historical names explained rather than removed without debate.

The CDU wants to keep working against racism. The state has a plan for this. The CDU wants to continue that plan. But it is also against claims of racism made without reason. It wants to explain old names, not just remove them.

The CDU wants to strengthen the LGBTQIA+ community and oppose social discrimination against it. Queer ways of life are to be represented in education, and counseling and contact points are to be available across the state.

The CDU wants to support queer people. These are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans people. No one should treat them unfairly. They should have a place in education. Help and advice should be available all over the state.

The CDU wants to take action against violence targeting queer people and to reduce discrimination. At the state and federal level, it also wants family law rules to be reviewed.

The CDU wants to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The party wants to act against violence. There should be less unfair treatment. Family law should also be checked.

The CDU wants to keep supporting the state's national minorities and ethnic groups and give them financial planning security. Existing funding arrangements, including for the Danish school system, are to stay in place.

Several minorities live in Schleswig-Holstein. They include Danes, Frisians, and Sinti and Roma. The CDU wants to keep supporting them. They should be able to live their culture and language. The money for this should stay secure.

The CDU wants to make the post of commissioner for Jewish life and against antisemitism permanent and fund it. Synagogues and community centers are to get money for security and renovation, and an action plan is to rely mainly on education.

The CDU wants to protect Jewish life in the state. There is a commissioner against hatred of Jews. This post should stay for good. Synagogues should get money for security and repairs. Schools should teach about Jewish life.

The CDU wants to expand coastal and flood protection because it expects more frequent extreme weather due to climate change. A water strategy is also meant to prepare the state for heavy rain and heat.

Climate change brings more storms, heavy rain, and heat. So the CDU wants to protect the coasts better. It also wants to do more against floods. There should be a plan for dealing with water.

The CDU wants to promote heating with renewable energy in residential neighborhoods and industry, moving closer to climate neutrality by 2045. Electricity for heat pumps is to be freed from levies, and revenue from carbon pricing is to flow back to citizens.

The CDU wants homes to be heated with clean energy. There should be funding for this. Power for heat pumps should get cheaper. People should get back the money from the carbon price.

The CDU wants to rely less on insulation in older buildings and pay more attention to how heat is generated. Buildings are to be retrofitted only as far as is economically sensible, combined with a switch to renewable heat.

The CDU does not want to only insulate old houses. What you heat with should matter more. Renovation should not cost too much. Clean heating should come on top.

The CDU wants towns and cities everywhere to draw up heating and cooling plans to make local heat supply climate neutral. The state is to support them. According to the platform, existing gas networks can also be used for climate-neutral gases such as hydrogen.

Every town should make a plan for heating and cooling. The plan shows how to heat without harming the climate. The state should help the towns. Old gas pipes can carry hydrogen later.

The CDU wants to expand training and continuing education in energy professions, especially building energy consulting. It also plans an information campaign on renewable heat and a new competence center for heat supply.

The CDU wants to train more people for energy jobs. A campaign should inform people about clean heating and funding. A center for heat supply should also be set up. It will offer expert knowledge.

The CDU wants to fund research that removes already emitted CO2 from the air and uses it as a raw material. This is meant to go beyond the goal of climate neutrality by 2045.

There is already a lot of CO2 in the air. The CDU wants to pay for research that takes CO2 back out. The CO2 can then be turned into new things. Examples are plastics or jet fuel.

The CDU stands by the Paris Agreement and wants Schleswig-Holstein to be climate neutral by 2045; state-owned buildings are to get there by 2040. The path is to rely mainly on technology-neutral innovation and to be ecologically, socially, and economically acceptable.

The CDU wants to protect the climate. Schleswig-Holstein should be climate neutral by 2045. That means the state adds no more CO2 overall. State buildings should manage this by 2040. New technology should help.

The CDU wants to work out a strategy for adapting to climate change together with the state-level municipal associations. It justifies this with extreme weather, whose effects it says are already being felt.

The climate is already changing. There is more heavy rain and more heat. The CDU wants to prepare the state for this. It wants to make a plan together with the towns.

The CDU wants a fundamental reform of taxes, levies, surcharges, and grid fees in the energy sector and relies on a moderately rising carbon price. Emissions trading is to cover as many sectors as possible, and carbon-free electricity is to become cheaper.

Whoever emits CO2 should pay for it. This price should rise slowly. Clean electricity should get cheaper in return. The CDU wants to reorganize the charges on energy. The EEG surcharge should go away.

The CDU wants to build a hydrogen economy in the state, advance energy storage, and press the federal government to expand power lines to the south. The costs of the energy transition, especially for distribution grids, are to be shared more fairly nationwide.

Schleswig-Holstein makes a lot of power from wind and sun. The CDU wants to make hydrogen from it too. There should be more power lines and storage. The costs should be shared more fairly across Germany.

The CDU wants to make solar power more attractive on roofs, facades and in rental buildings, and plans a solar strategy for the state. Ground-mounted arrays should mainly go on contaminated or sealed land, while high-quality farmland stays reserved for agriculture.

The CDU wants more power from the sun. Solar panels on your own roof should pay off. This also applies to buildings with many apartments. Large solar fields should not be built on good farmland.

The CDU wants to keep supporting biogas plants, especially those that supply electricity, heat and biomethane at once. It also wants a scientific study of the geothermal potential in Schleswig-Holstein.

The CDU wants to keep supporting biogas plants. These plants make power and heat from crops and manure. Researchers should also check how much heat from the ground the state can use.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for binding planning and faster construction of wind farms off the state's coasts. More of the value created and revenue from this expansion should stay in Schleswig-Holstein.

The CDU wants more wind turbines at sea. The federal government should plan them firmly and build them fast. Schleswig-Holstein should earn more money from this.

The CDU wants to make full use of the priority zones for wind power and gain additional sites by reassessing areas that were previously ruled out. Minimum distances to homes are to stay unchanged. Citizen-owned wind farms are to be strengthened.

The CDU wants to allow more wind turbines on land. It wants to check again areas that were turned down before. The distance to homes should stay the same. The CDU wants to give more support to wind farms owned by citizens.

The CDU wants to simplify permitting for facilities that generate or transport renewable energy. Electricity, gas and hydrogen grids are to be expanded and converted faster.

The CDU wants to make permits for energy facilities easier. Lines for power, gas and hydrogen should be built faster. The agencies should have enough staff for this.

The CDU wants the coal-fired power plant in Wedel taken off the grid as early as possible. A dedicated state strategy is to be drawn up for dismantling the nuclear power plants in the state.

The CDU wants to shut down the coal power plant in Wedel as fast as possible. There should be a plan for taking apart the nuclear power plants in the state.

The CDU wants to fund energy storage to balance supply and demand for renewable power. Households and small businesses are to receive support for battery storage and heat pumps combined with a solar system.

The CDU wants to support power storage. Households and small firms should get money for battery storage and heat pumps. This applies if they have or build a solar system. The CDU also wants to bring a large battery factory to the state.

The CDU wants to advance the hydrogen economy in the state and keep supporting the energy hubs in Heide, Brunsbüttel and Itzehoe. Brunsbüttel's port is to become a terminal for renewable fuels, and a hydrogen transport network from Hamburg to Oslo is to be created.

The CDU wants more green hydrogen in the state. Green hydrogen is a gas made with clean power. The port in Brunsbüttel should become a hub for clean fuels. Pipelines should carry hydrogen from Hamburg to Oslo.

The CDU wants every person who fishes to have to prove competence as a rule. Exemptions from the exam requirement, such as the tourist fishing license, are to apply only in objectively justified cases. The party cites species protection and animal welfare as the reason.

People who fish should know about fish. They should show this with a test. Today tourists can often fish without a test. The CDU wants to allow such exceptions only rarely.

The CDU commits to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and wants to keep measuring state policy against them. It intends to carry out the state's biodiversity strategy, further develop education for sustainable development, and support the EU Green Deal.

The United Nations has 17 goals for a sustainable world. The CDU wants its policy to follow them. It wants to protect the variety of animals and plants. People should learn more about living sustainably.

The CDU wants to implement the state's biodiversity strategy and set aside wilderness areas on 1.4 percent of the state's land by 2030. A scientific advisory board is to advise the state government on environmental policy so that, in the party's view, decisions rest on research and impact assessments.

The CDU wants to protect animals and plants better. By 2030 there should be more wilderness areas. Nature is left alone there. Experts from research should advise the government on protecting the environment.

The CDU wants conservation violations, illegal logging and illegal dumping to be prosecuted more vigorously and punished more heavily. It justifies this with a visible rise in such offenses and the damage they do to nature.

Some people cut down trees illegally or dump trash in nature. The CDU wants to punish this more harshly. The police should be better able to pursue such acts.

The CDU wants new land take in the state to fall to no more than 1.3 hectares per day by 2030 and to reduce soil sealing. At the same time, business siting and growth should remain possible, for example by reusing old sites.

The CDU wants less new land to be built on. By 2030 it should be at most 1.3 hectares a day. Old factories and barracks should be put to new use. Companies should still be able to set up shop.

The CDU wants products to be reused and recycled more, arguing that this avoids waste and CO2 emissions. Recycled plastic is to become more competitive, waste should only go to countries that can process it properly, and trash bins should get uniform colors nationwide.

The CDU wants less trash and more recycling. Recycling means making new things from old ones. Trash bins should have the same colors all over Germany. Trash should only go to countries that can process it well.

The CDU wants to draw up a water strategy for the state that also takes account of climate change effects such as heavy rain and drought. Those who pollute water are to be held more accountable. The aim is clean drinking water and better quality in seas, lakes and rivers.

The CDU wants to make a plan for water in the state. Drinking water should stay clean. Anyone who pollutes water should take responsibility for it. The plan should also consider heavy rain and dry periods.

The CDU wants to step up efforts on old munitions lying in the sea, because they release toxins that endanger marine life. It sees recovery as a task shared by the federal government and all the states.

Old munitions lie in the sea. Poison leaks from them into the water. The CDU wants the munitions taken out of the sea. The federal government and the states should do this together.

The CDU wants to keep funding animal shelters and make neutering of free-roaming stray cats standard practice. It also wants to support projects that prevent the compulsive collecting of pets.

The CDU wants to keep giving money to animal shelters. Cats without owners should be neutered. Some people compulsively keep far too many animals. The CDU wants to support projects that prevent this.

The CDU wants to put an end to the illegal trade in animals. To do so, the platform calls for more inspections, tougher penalties and effective prosecution.

The CDU wants to stop the illegal trade in animals. There should be more inspections. Illegal traders should be punished more harshly. Online trade in animals should also have stricter rules.

The CDU wants to increase forest cover in Schleswig-Holstein to more than twelve percent of the state's area and continue the reforestation programs. The aim is to create species-rich climate forests that withstand extreme weather better. It also wants to examine whether the rule requiring people to stay on forest paths should be reinstated.

The CDU wants more forest in the state. More than twelve percent of the land should be forest. The new forests should have many kinds of trees. That helps them cope with heat and storms. The CDU will also check whether people must stay on paths in the forest.

The CDU wants to place the wolf under hunting law so that quick action is possible in accidents and when people or livestock are in danger. It also wants to create the legal basis for wolf-free zones, especially along coasts and dikes.

The CDU wants wolves to fall under hunting law. Then hunters can help quickly when there is danger. Along coasts and dikes, areas without wolves should be possible. This is how the CDU wants to protect sheep and other grazing animals.

The CDU wants to actively manage goose populations in the state, including through hunting. Farmers are to be able to insure themselves against feeding damage, with the state covering losses the insurance does not pay.

There are many geese in the state. They eat fields bare. The CDU wants hunters to be allowed to shoot geese. Farmers should be able to insure their fields against goose damage. The state pays the rest of the damage.

The CDU sees hunting as active nature conservation and wants to keep the statewide hunting district system as well as hunting in protected areas. Hunting dogs are to be exempt from dog tax and shooting ranges secured. A wildlife corridor plan is to reconnect fragmented habitats.

The CDU says hunting protects nature. Hunters should also be allowed to hunt in protected areas. No one should pay dog tax for hunting dogs. Shooting ranges should stay. Wild animals should get crossings over roads.

The CDU wants less food to end up in the trash, especially in private households. It relies on consumer education, talks with supermarkets and, following the French example, other ways of passing on food that is still edible.

People in Germany throw away a lot of food. The CDU wants to change that. It wants to talk with supermarkets about it. Good food should be passed on instead of thrown away. People should learn to waste less.

The CDU wants to continue the Zukunftsdialog Landwirtschaft (dialogue on the future of farming) and turn its results into concrete measures. The aim is an agriculture shaped by family farms, with crop and livestock farming, that can plan for the long term.

The CDU wants to keep talking with farmers about the future. The talks should lead to real measures. Family farms should stay. Farmers should be able to plan far ahead.

The CDU wants to relaunch the former agricultural marketing body CMA and push for a national food agency that promotes regional products at home and abroad. In addition, every schoolchild in the state is to visit a farm once.

The CDU wants more advertising for local food. A new agency should do this. People should value farmers' work more. Every schoolchild should visit a farm once.

The CDU wants to achieve animal welfare, climate protection, biodiversity and water protection in farming through funding programs rather than legal requirements. It justifies this with the competitiveness of farms. Federal and EU standards are not to be tightened at the state level.

The CDU does not want to burden farmers with new rules. There should be funding for protecting nature and animals. The state should not make federal and EU rules stricter. This should help farms stay competitive.

The CDU wants to found a competence center that pools scientific knowledge on climate-efficient agriculture and helps farms cut their greenhouse gas emissions. It also promotes digital methods in field and barn and backs a carbon border adjustment for imports.

The CDU wants to found a new center for farming and climate. Experts will work together there. They will help farmers emit fewer harmful gases. Digital technology should help too.

The CDU wants farms to be able to earn money through environmental and climate protection. It welcomes the eco-schemes in EU agricultural policy and supports industry-backed payment systems. The required greening of agriculture is to become easier for farms to carry out.

Farmers should be able to earn money by protecting nature. The CDU likes the EU's new eco-schemes. These are payments for voluntary environmental work. Businesses should also pay farmers for this.

The CDU wants to make pasture-based livestock farming more attractive by simplifying rules and launching funding programs. Farmers are to receive money for wolf-proof fences. Because of crop damage from wild geese, the party considers goose management including hunting necessary.

Keeping animals on pasture should get easier. The CDU wants to cut rules and provide money. Farmers should get help with fences against wolves. Wild geese eat fields bare. So hunting geese should be allowed.

The CDU wants to preserve commercial fishing in Schleswig-Holstein despite sharply reduced EU catch quotas. Decommissioning payments and EU funds are to be used so that the remaining businesses survive. Shrimp fishing is not to face further no-take zones in the Wadden Sea.

The CDU wants fishing to continue in the state. The EU allows far less cod and herring fishing. So fishers should get help. There should be no new closed zones for shrimp fishers in the Wadden Sea.

The CDU wants to expand aquaculture facilities and support their further development because they could increasingly meet demand for fish. Regulatory hurdles for environmentally friendly recirculating systems are to be lowered. The environment must not be significantly harmed in the process.

The CDU wants more fish farming in facilities. These are called aquaculture. They should partly replace fishing at sea. There should be fewer rules for eco-friendly facilities.

The CDU wants to implement the recommendations of the Borchert Commission on restructuring livestock farming and supports an animal welfare levy. Building and converting barns for better animal welfare is to become legally easier and continue to be subsidized. Processed meat is to be exported instead of live animals.

The CDU wants animals in barns to be better off. It thinks an animal welfare levy is right. That is a surcharge meant to pay for better barns. New and rebuilt barns should be easier to approve. Live animals should no longer be shipped abroad.

The CDU wants to introduce the Ernährungsführerschein (a school nutrition certificate course) in all schools and continue awareness projects in daycare centers and schools. Regional products are to be marketed better, and public institutions are to cook more regionally and seasonally.

Children should learn at school how to eat healthily. For this, there should be a nutrition course everywhere. The CDU also wants to support food from the region. Daycare centers and care homes should offer more regional food.

The CDU wants to make routes to school safer and set aside dedicated funds from road and bike path investments for this. Together with municipalities, danger spots are to be identified and fixed.

The CDU wants safe routes to school. There should be special money for this. The state and towns will look for dangerous spots. Then they should make these spots safer.

The CDU wants to introduce a statewide transit pass for apprentices. It is meant to put them on equal footing with university students and their semester pass and make trips to vocational school easier.

The CDU wants a transit pass for apprentices. It should be valid across the whole state. University students already have such a pass. Apprentices can then get to vocational school more easily.

The CDU wants to treat all modes of transport as equals. People are to be encouraged to switch to buses, trains and bikes through more attractive services, not through coercion. In the party's view, the car will continue to play an important role.

The CDU wants to treat cars, buses, trains and bikes equally. No one should be forced to switch. But buses, trains and bikes should become more attractive. Roads remain important, the CDU says.

The CDU wants to continue the program for repairing state roads and secure maintenance on a permanent basis. Damage is to be fixed early so that the roads' substance is preserved. State roads are also to become safer.

The CDU wants to keep repairing the state's roads. Damage should be fixed early. This includes damage after winter. The roads should also become safer.

The CDU wants to change planning law via the Bundesrat so that infrastructure projects are carried out much faster. Lawsuits are to be tied to prior participation in the procedure. Important transport projects are to be approved more often directly by statute.

The CDU says building roads and rail lines takes too long. It wants to change the rules for planning. Only people who took part in the planning should be able to sue. Parliament should approve important projects directly by law.

The CDU wants to finish the A20 highway including the Elbe crossing and quickly expand the rail and road links to the Fehmarnbelt fixed link. Both projects have top priority for the party. The state's planning capacity is to be pooled for this.

The CDU wants to finish the A20 highway. This includes a crossing of the Elbe river. The routes to the tunnel to Denmark should also be built quickly. Both are especially important to the CDU.

The CDU wants to expand several autobahns and federal roads, including the A21, A23, A7 and B5. In addition, more truck parking and truck stops are to be built, and railroad crossings are to become safer.

The CDU wants to widen several major roads. These include the A21, A23, A7 and B5. There should be more parking for trucks. Railroad crossings should become safer.

The CDU wants to press the federal government for better infrastructure on the Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) and for new fee rules. Fees are to be tied to fuel prices and include discounts for low-emission propulsion. The party also supports expanding the Elbe–Lübeck Canal.

The CDU wants the Kiel Canal to be upgraded. The federal government is in charge of that. The fees for ships should change. Cleaner ships should pay less. The Elbe–Lübeck Canal should also be expanded.

The CDU wants to keep the state's airports and turn them into test sites for the aviation of the future. It sees supplying sustainable fuels as an opportunity for Schleswig-Holstein with its many renewable energy plants. The party stands fully behind Hamburg Airport.

The CDU wants to keep the airports in the state. New technology for flying should be tested there. Planes should be able to use climate-friendly fuels. The CDU also backs Hamburg Airport.

The CDU wants to electrify all rail lines in the state as quickly as possible. Rail transport is to be fully climate-neutral by 2030. As an interim step, the program relies on battery-powered trains and partial overhead lines.

The CDU wants all train lines in the state to run on electricity. By 2030, trains should no longer harm the climate. Until then, battery trains will be used. The state will build power lines in some places for them.

The CDU wants to enlarge the rail network by upgrading lines and reopening disused routes. In the short term, the projects in the statewide local transport plan are to be carried out. Rail freight is also to become more attractive.

The CDU wants more train lines in the state. Old lines should open again. Other lines should get more tracks. Trains should run more often. More goods should also travel by train.

The CDU wants to make train stations and trains fully accessible by 2030 at the latest. According to the program, rail transport should be reachable and usable by everyone.

The CDU wants train stations and trains without barriers. This should be done by 2030. Then everyone can use the train. That includes people in wheelchairs.

The CDU wants a dedicated state program for building, repairing and maintaining bike paths and commits to the state's 2030 cycling strategy. It also plans state funding for cycle routes, bike parking at stations and free bike transport for young people.

The CDU wants to do more for cycling. The state should build and repair bike paths. Train stations should get safe boxes for bikes. People up to age 25 should take their bike on buses and trains for free.

The CDU wants to make bus and rail service around Hamburg more attractive with better frequencies, remove bottlenecks on rail and road, and expand fast cycling routes. According to the platform, this is meant to relieve roads, help commuters and serve climate protection.

Buses and trains around Hamburg should run more often. This applies by day and at night. The CDU also wants to build fast bike routes to Hamburg. This should ease traffic on roads and help the climate.

The CDU wants to expand local public transit and make it climate neutral by 2035. In the medium term, every place in the state is to be reachable between 6 a.m. and midnight, including through on-demand services.

The CDU wants more buses and trains. By 2035 they should no longer harm the climate. Every town should be reachable from early morning to midnight. There should also be rides on request.

The CDU wants to lower public transit fares, including through a low-cost ticket for trainees and people doing voluntary service. An app is to show all connections and allow ticket purchases for every mode of transport.

Buses and trains should get cheaper. Trainees and volunteers should get a low-cost ticket. School travel costs should have an upper limit. An app should show all trips and sell tickets.

The CDU wants to achieve emission-free mobility by 2040 and draw up a statewide climate mobility plan for it. Cars are to remain part of the strategy, with more charging stations, hydrogen fueling stations and openness to new fuels.

By 2040, traffic should produce no more exhaust. There should be a plan for the whole state. Cars should stay important. There should be more charging points and hydrogen stations.

The CDU wants to carry out a statewide bike path plan, expand the network and build fast cycle routes in every county. An action plan is to cut cycling accidents by 30 percent.

The CDU wants to build more and better bike paths. Every county should get fast bike routes. Every train station should have safe bike parking. There should be far fewer bike accidents.

The CDU wants buses and trains in rural areas to run more often, so that in the medium term every town can be reached from 6 a.m. to midnight. It also relies on shared taxis, community buses, express buses, and autonomous driving. Cars are to remain part of rural mobility.

The CDU wants more buses and trains in the countryside. Every town should be reachable from 6 a.m. to midnight. There should also be shared taxis and community buses. Cars will still matter in the countryside.

The CDU wants to give all schools a learning management system and a digital classroom for learning at home. Students whose families cannot provide a device are to receive one.

All schools will get an online learning platform. Students can use it to learn at home too. Some families cannot buy a device. Those students will be given one.

The CDU wants to expand schools' digital infrastructure as a high priority and secure its funding for the long term. At the federal level, it will push for a second Digitalpakt (digital pact for schools) that starts in 2025 and becomes permanent.

The CDU wants to keep expanding technology in schools. All schools should get fast internet. The federal government should keep paying for this after 2025. The state and towns should agree on who pays for what.

The CDU wants to keep artificial intelligence a priority of digitalization and expand the state's AI cluster. Small and medium-sized companies are to be able to try out AI applications easily. In the platform's view, data protection must not become an obstacle to innovation.

AI means artificial intelligence. The CDU wants to strongly support AI in the state. Small companies should be able to test AI without risk. There should be a new degree for further training in AI. The CDU says overly strict data protection must not slow new ideas.

The CDU wants to make more public data available because it regards data as a factor of production and a locational advantage. It plans to discuss with business how unused private-sector data could be included as well. Data infrastructure and data skills are to be expanded.

The CDU wants to open up more government data. Companies and researchers should be able to use this data. The technology for data should get better. Students should learn how to handle data. Small companies should get advice on this.

The CDU wants to further develop the state's digital strategy and continue the fiber-optic broadband rollout, especially in rural areas. Artificial intelligence is to remain a priority, and digitalization is to become a guiding principle in all policy areas.

The CDU wants to make the state more digital. There should be fast fiber internet everywhere. This matters most in rural areas. Artificial intelligence should stay an important topic. Schools should teach computer science.

The CDU wants to help all groups in society use digital technology confidently and thereby ease fears about the transition. It plans new services, digital counseling, and better use of data while maintaining data protection.

Some people are afraid of digital change. The CDU wants to help everyone use computers and the internet. There should be new services for this. State counseling should also be available online. Protecting data stays important.

The CDU wants to keep promoting gaming and e-sports as part of youth culture and as an economic factor. It plans an e-sports academy and major events in the state, accompanied by addiction and violence prevention.

The CDU wants to support video games and e-sports. E-sports means people compete against each other in video games. There should be an academy for e-sports. Big events should take place in the state. There should also be protection against addiction.

The CDU wants to fully digitize public administration at every level and make it reachable around the clock. The state administration is to lead the way in using artificial intelligence and base its decisions more strongly on data.

The CDU wants all public offices to work digitally. People should be able to reach them at any time. The offices should also use artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that solve tasks on their own. In-person advice should still be available.

The CDU wants to continue the fiber-optic rollout and achieve complete mobile coverage in the state. The platform regards digital infrastructure as just as important for rural areas as a highway connection, in order to prevent people from moving away.

The CDU wants fast internet across the whole state. Cell phone service should work everywhere too. Places with no fast internet come first. This should make people want to live and work in the countryside.

The CDU wants to develop the state's Green IT strategy further so that digital technology uses less energy and fewer resources. It also backs a rule requiring that phone and laptop batteries be user-replaceable and that spare parts stay available for five years.

Computers and networks need a lot of power. The CDU wants digital technology to be easier on the environment. Data centers should save energy and pass on their heat. People should be able to swap phone and laptop batteries themselves.

The CDU wants to change state police law so that officers may also use bodycams inside private homes. Use in business premises is to be made easier. The platform justifies this with protecting officers and de-escalating situations.

Police officers sometimes wear small cameras on their bodies. These are called bodycams. The CDU wants to allow them inside homes too. Using them in shops and offices should become easier. The CDU says this protects officers from violence.

The CDU wants to hire additional psychologists at the regional police headquarters. Officers should be able to process stressful operations and investigations faster and more easily.

Police officers often see terrible things. This is hard on body and mind. The CDU wants to hire more psychologists for the police. Officers should get help faster.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the state police's technology, buildings and vehicle fleet. Search tools such as automatic license plate readers, dashcams and drones are to be used more. The water police are also to get new boats.

The CDU wants to equip the police better. They should get modern technology, buildings and vehicles. The police should use more drones and cameras. Devices should read license plates automatically. The water police should get new boats.

The CDU wants to further improve the police pay structure and open up paths for promotion. More women are to reach leadership positions, and the police force is to reflect the diversity of society.

The CDU wants to make police jobs more attractive. Pay should get better. More women should become leaders. Leadership jobs should also be possible part-time. The police should be as diverse as society.

The CDU wants to keep hiring additional police officers and finish building up the second riot police unit. Police stations are to be reopened where this serves public safety. The police should be visible and reachable in towns and rural areas alike.

The CDU wants to hire more police officers. A second large police unit should be completed. Some police stations should open again. The police should be easy to see and reach everywhere.

The CDU wants to keep fighting home burglaries through police presence and higher clearance rates and to continue the burglary protection program. Older people are to be better protected from fraud. Local police prevention work is to grow.

The CDU wants to keep fighting home burglaries. The police should catch more offenders. Older people should be better protected from fraudsters. One example is the grandparent scam. The police should do more to stop crimes before they happen.

The CDU wants to create a "Cyber-Hundertschaft" (cyber unit) made up of IT specialists and specialized detectives. It is to pursue online crimes such as hate crime, fraud and attacks on companies and critical infrastructure. The police as a whole are also to work more digitally.

Many crimes now happen on the internet. The CDU wants to build a special police group for this. It is called the cyber unit. Computer experts and investigators work together there. The police should also use more artificial intelligence.

The CDU wants to give the police new powers for the most serious crimes: covert online searches, interception of encrypted communication at the source, and data retention, each requiring a judge's order. Data protection rules are to be adjusted so crimes can be solved effectively.

The CDU wants to give the police new powers. Police should be allowed to search computers secretly. They should also be allowed to read encrypted messages. Connection data should be stored for a while. This should apply only to very serious crimes. A judge must agree first.

The CDU puts a focus on fighting human trafficking as well as biker gang, clan and drug crime. Money laundering is to be pursued more rigorously and criminally obtained assets confiscated. To combat sexual abuse of children, it wants to use more artificial intelligence.

The CDU wants to fight gangs and drug dealing harder. Human trafficking is part of this too. The state should take away money from crimes. The CDU also wants to protect children better from abuse. Computer programs should help review pictures and data.

The CDU wants to expand police custody for people considered a terrorist threat in order to prevent attacks. More video technology is to be used at places such as airports, train stations and shopping centers. It also wants to examine a statewide weapons ban at train stations.

The CDU wants to be able to hold dangerous people longer. It wants to prevent attacks this way. There should be more cameras at train stations and airports. The CDU is also looking at banning weapons at train stations. Cities should be able to set up weapon bans more easily.

The CDU wants to make criminal proceedings faster by making greater use of existing procedural options such as expedited proceedings. It is open to further reforms of criminal procedure law. Victim protection is to be expanded as a central part of justice policy.

The CDU wants criminal trials to go faster. Courts should handle simple cases quickly. The CDU is open to new rules for this. Victims of crime should get help more easily.

The CDU wants to continue adding prison staff and keep promoting the reintegration of offenders. According to the platform, security and rehabilitation belong together. Psychiatric services and drug detection in prisons are to be expanded.

The CDU wants more staff in prisons. Prisoners should be able to live without crime after release. There should be good support for that. Prisons should have more drug-sniffing dogs. Help for people with mental illness should also grow.

The CDU wants to strengthen municipal public order services and expand them especially in towns that belong to a county. The state administrative act is to be amended for this. More video surveillance is to be used at crime hot spots such as train stations and transit stops.

Many cities have their own public order service. It keeps order when the police are not in charge. The CDU wants to strengthen these services. Smaller towns should have them too. There should be more cameras at train stations and stops.

The CDU wants civil protection to be better equipped for crises such as storm surges, floods, wildfires, or power outages. Plans include a statewide siren network, digital alerts, and a new situation and competence center.

The CDU wants the state to be better prepared for disasters. There should be sirens everywhere in the state. There should also be warnings on phones. A new center should keep track of things during a crisis.

The CDU wants to help volunteer fire departments recruit new members and make volunteering more attractive. Training courses are to count as educational leave, and the state is to keep funding vehicles, fire stations, and the state fire academy.

Many fire departments cannot find enough new members. The CDU wants to make joining more attractive. People who train for the fire service should get educational leave for it. The state should pay for fire trucks and fire stations.

The CDU wants hate crimes online and offline to be prosecuted more consistently and punished more severely. Religious institutions are to receive special protection, and the party also wants to combat hostility toward Islam.

The CDU wants tougher punishment for crimes driven by hate. This also applies to hate on the internet. Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be well protected. No one should be afraid to show their religion.

The CDU wants to give the state's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) more staff, modern technology, and new legal powers. It is to be allowed to search mobile devices and intercept communications at the source in order to detect extremists early.

The Verfassungsschutz is an agency that watches enemies of democracy. The CDU wants to give it more staff and better technology. It should be allowed to search phones. It should also be allowed to read messages. The CDU wants to change the law for this.

The CDU wants to better coordinate prevention and deradicalization against right-wing and left-wing extremism and Islamism, and to strengthen exit programs. Groups monitored by the domestic intelligence agency are to be barred from public institutions and state funding.

The CDU wants to act against extremists. People should get help to leave extreme groups. The domestic intelligence agency watches some groups. These groups should get no money from the state.

The CDU wants to set up a contact point within the state police for local politicians who face threats. Crimes against them are to be prosecuted consistently. The platform justifies this with growing hate and aggression toward officeholders and municipal staff.

People in local politics often face hate and threats. The CDU wants to protect them better. The state police should get a special office for this. Crimes should be prosecuted.

The CDU wants to introduce a uniform and binding procedure statewide to identify women at especially high risk early on. Killings of women because of their gender are also to be recorded in crime statistics according to fixed criteria.

Some women are killed because they are women. This is called femicide. The CDU wants to prevent such crimes. Authorities should spot women in danger early and protect them. The police should count these crimes separately in their statistics.

Victims of sexual or domestic violence can have evidence secured in a form that holds up in court without filing a police report. The CDU wants to make this service better known and available around the clock.

Victims of violence can have evidence secured. They do not have to go to the police for this. The CDU wants more people to know about it. The service should be reachable day and night. Victims should also be able to testify in a protected setting.

The CDU considers the protection offered by the federal Prostituiertenschutzgesetz (Prostitute Protection Act) insufficient and wants it reviewed earlier. Illegal prostitution is to be fought harder, and prevention and exit programs are to be expanded.

The CDU wants to protect sex workers better. It says the federal law is not enough. The law should be reviewed earlier. Authorities should check the trade more often. There should be more help for people who want to leave.

The CDU wants to keep adding staff at courts and public prosecutors' offices and push ahead with digitizing the justice system. Electronic case files are to be introduced at all courts by 2026 at the latest. All court locations in the state are to be kept.

The CDU wants more staff for courts and prosecutors. The justice system should become more digital. By 2026, all courts should work with electronic files. All courts in the state should stay where they are.

The CDU wants to write the fight against antisemitism into the state constitution and back it with an action plan. Schools are to be required to visit a memorial site of the persecution of Jews and discuss the visit in class.

The CDU wants to fight hatred of Jews. This should be a goal in the state constitution. All school classes should visit a memorial site. There they learn about the persecution of Jews.

The CDU wants a routine inquiry with the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) for people applying to work in public service. It also wants to examine how opponents of the constitution can be removed from service more quickly after being hired.

People who want to work for the state should be checked. The employer should always ask the domestic intelligence agency. The CDU wants to remove enemies of the constitution from public service faster. It wants to check how this can be done.

The CDU wants to recruit more young staff for the state civil service, since 30 percent of the workforce will retire within the next ten years. Flexible working arrangements, appropriate pay and more training are meant to help.

Many state employees will retire soon. So the CDU wants to win new staff. Work should become more flexible, for example from home. Civil servants should get the same pay raises as other public employees.

The CDU wants to involve citizens earlier in major projects while introducing a duty to cooperate that also applies to environmental groups. Objections that were deliberately held back are no longer to count once the deadline has passed.

The CDU wants to ask citizens earlier about big projects. Those who take part must also cooperate in time. This also applies to environmental groups. Objections held back on purpose should not succeed.

The CDU rules out forced mergers of municipalities. Instead it wants to support voluntary mergers and cooperation between municipalities. Municipalities are also to get more leeway to shape their own affairs.

The CDU does not want to merge towns against their will. Towns may join together if they choose to. They should also work together more. They should decide more things themselves.

The CDU wants to let local politicians take time off in special life situations without losing their seat. In addition, meetings are to be possible permanently in digital or hybrid form, and compensation is to be appropriate.

People in local politics should be able to take a break. They should keep their seat during that time. Meetings should also be possible online. Pay for the work should be fair.

The CDU wants to introduce an electoral threshold in local elections and raise the minimum size for council caucuses, for example to four members in county councils. Seats are to be allocated by the d'Hondt method in the future. According to the platform, the aim is to make forming majorities easier.

The CDU wants a threshold in local elections. This means parties with very few votes get no seats. A caucus in a county council should have at least four members. Seats should be counted in a different way.

The CDU wants to replace the current thresholds, which are graduated by population, with uniform values across the state. A 15 percent threshold is to apply to citizens' initiatives and 30 percent to local referendums.

In a citizens' initiative, people collect signatures to get a vote. Today the number needed depends on the size of the town. The CDU wants the same number everywhere: 15 percent. For the vote itself, 30 percent should be needed.

The CDU wants to amend the municipal code so that full-time mayors are no longer elected directly by residents but once again chosen by the elected councils.

Today, citizens elect full-time mayors directly. The CDU wants to change that. The local council should elect the mayor. That is how it was done in the past.

The CDU wants to distribute new state institutions so that rural areas are also considered. It also wants to attract federal agencies and federal research institutions to Schleswig-Holstein.

New state offices should not only be in big cities. Rural areas should get some too. The CDU also wants to bring federal offices to Schleswig-Holstein.

The CDU wants to create a legitimized, direct representative body for children and young people at the state level. It also wants to examine whether more uniform statewide standards are possible for involving young people in municipal decisions.

The CDU wants to create a body that speaks for children and young people in the state. In towns and cities, young people should have more say. The CDU wants to check whether similar rules can apply everywhere.

The CDU wants political parties, their youth organizations and local branches to be able to use public buildings for events, and wants to set this out in law. It also wants to raise voter turnout, especially in precincts where few people vote.

Parties often struggle to find rooms for events. The CDU wants parties to be allowed to use public buildings. This should be written into a law. It also wants more people to vote.

The CDU wants organizations that receive state money for promoting democracy to commit to the free democratic basic order. The aim is to prevent public funds from benefiting anti-constitutional activities.

Some groups get state money for democracy projects. The CDU wants these groups to commit to the constitution. The constitution holds the most important rules of the state. Enemies of the constitution should get no state money.

The CDU wants the rights of national minorities written into the Grundgesetz (Basic Law, Germany's constitution). It also backs the demands of the European Minority SafePack Initiative.

The CDU wants minority rights written into the Basic Law. The Basic Law is Germany's constitution. The party also supports a European initiative for minorities. It is called Minority SafePack.

The CDU wants the preamble of Schleswig-Holstein's state constitution to include a reference to God. It points to the joint effort by several religions in support of this goal.

The CDU wants to change the state constitution. The opening part should mention God. Several religions have worked for this. The CDU wants to keep supporting it.

The CDU wants to focus the state's Baltic Sea policy on economic cooperation and climate protection and expand its partnership with Denmark. The Fehmarnbelt fixed link is to be pushed forward. Border checks with Denmark are to be dismantled and replaced by police cooperation.

The CDU wants to work more with countries around the Baltic Sea. The focus is on business and climate protection. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel to Denmark should be built. Checks at the border with Denmark should end.

The CDU wants to increase Schleswig-Holstein's weight at the federal and EU levels and to strengthen the state's representation in Berlin and the Hanse-Office in Brussels for this purpose. EU funds are to be used with little red tape, especially for rural areas. An internationalization strategy is also meant to connect the state better worldwide.

Schleswig-Holstein should have more say in Berlin and Brussels. The CDU wants to strengthen the state's offices there. Money from the EU should be easy to get. The state should also work more with other countries around the world.

The CDU wants to implement EU requirements in the state one-to-one, without adding extra state-level conditions. In the platform's view, such additions create unnecessary bureaucracy and a sense of being patronized.

The EU makes rules for all member countries. The CDU wants to adopt these rules exactly as they are. The state should not add its own rules on top. This should avoid red tape.

The CDU commits to the Bundeswehr and to NATO's two percent target, meaning defense spending of two percent of economic output. It cites security risks in the Baltic Sea region for which the alliances must be prepared.

The CDU stands by the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces. It wants Germany to spend enough on defense. NATO has a goal for this: two percent of economic output. The CDU says there are dangers in the Baltic Sea region.

The CDU wants to keep all Bundeswehr bases in the state and attract additional posts. The armed forces are to be publicly visible, for example through swearing-in ceremonies, exercises, and youth officers in schools; a veterans policy is also planned.

The CDU wants to keep all military bases in the state. Even more soldiers should come to the state. People should see the armed forces in public. Youth officers should talk about security policy in schools. Former soldiers who served abroad should get support.

The CDU wants to anchor the regional and minority languages more firmly in daycare centers, schools, universities and the media. To do so, it plans to implement and further develop the state's language policy action plan.

People in the state also speak Low German, Frisian and Danish. The CDU wants to strengthen these languages. Children should be able to learn them in daycare and school. There should be more teaching material. The languages should also appear more often in the media.

The CDU wants to conclude a culture pact with the municipalities and raise public spending on culture to the average of Germany's larger territorial states by 2030. A matching fund is to add one euro from the state for every additional euro municipalities spend on culture.

The CDU wants to spend more money on culture. The state and the towns should do this together. By 2030 the state should spend as much as other large states do on average. If a town spends one more euro, the state adds one euro.

The CDU wants to help artists and cultural institutions go digital and build a digital House of State History. State history would then be accessible from anywhere and, in the party's view, strengthen cohesion and understanding of democracy.

The CDU wants to bring more culture online. Museums should get help with digital exhibitions. There should be a digital House of State History. Anyone can explore the state's history there online. Later, real places across the state will be added.

The CDU wants to renovate stages, halls and theaters in cities and rural areas and keep supporting cinemas, museums and memorial sites. Fairs, folk festivals and country inns are also to be preserved as part of the cultural landscape.

The CDU wants to repair theaters, concert halls and stages. Cinemas should also get help. Museums and memorial sites should keep developing. There should be a fixed place to remember Germany's division. The CDU also wants to keep folk festivals and country inns.

The CDU wants to preserve and renovate major venues in the state, including Lübeck's Musik- und Kongresshalle (MUK) and the concert hall in Kiel Castle. Theaters are to get state help with investments, and independent theaters are to receive multi-year funding.

The CDU wants to keep theaters and concert halls in the state. Old buildings are to be repaired. This includes the music hall in Lübeck and the concert hall in Kiel Castle. Small independent theaters are to get money too.

The CDU wants to introduce a law on funding music schools and expand music schools in every county. In the party's view, children should be introduced to music from an early age.

The CDU wants a law for music schools. The law is meant to support them. There should be more music schools all over the state. Children should get to know music early.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the state museums and make the state's memorial sites more professional. A site commemorating the division of Germany is to be established in Lübeck-Schlutup.

The CDU wants to modernize the state museums. Memorial sites should be able to work better. A new site is planned in Lübeck-Schlutup. It will remember the time when Germany was divided.

The CDU wants to develop libraries into meeting places and permanently secure the Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) as places for lifelong learning. Cultural institutions are to become more accessible.

The CDU wants to turn libraries into meeting places. People should meet and talk there. Adult education centers should stay for good. Cultural venues should be easy for everyone to use.

The CDU wants to protect historic monuments while keeping them usable. Authorities are to decide consistently across the state, and in the party's view requirements should not block investment. Owners are to get better review options and earlier notice.

The CDU wants to protect old buildings. But people should still be able to use them. Offices across the state should decide the same way. Owners should learn early when their house is listed. Rules should not make investing impossible.

The CDU backs strong public broadcasting focused on information, education, culture and advice. The broadcasting fee is to be set through an index model in the future; students, trainees and people doing voluntary service would no longer pay it.

The CDU wants strong public broadcasting. It should mainly inform and educate. The broadcasting fee should follow an index. That means it is tied to a fixed measure. Students, trainees and volunteers should pay nothing.

The CDU wants to preserve a diverse regional media landscape and will examine new forms of support for the press. It also wants to promote media literacy, advance digital radio and build up the state as a film location.

The CDU wants to keep many different media in the state. Regional newspapers should be able to get help. People should learn to judge media content well. Radio should go digital. More films should be made in the state.

The CDU wants to expand funding for the Verbraucherzentrale (consumer advice center) and create a central online portal that pools consumer information from all levels of government. At the federal level, it advocates stronger consumer rights in several sectors.

The CDU wants to protect consumers better. The consumer advice center should get more money. There should be one website with all important information. Consumers should get more rights, for example with phone contracts.

The CDU wants to make food safety a priority over the next five years. The structures of food inspection are to be reviewed and expanded together with the municipalities. All consumer protection responsibilities are to be brought together.

The CDU wants food to be safe. So food should be inspected better. The state wants to talk with cities and towns about this. One office should be in charge of consumer protection.

The CDU wants volunteer work to fit better with family life and a job. To that end, parental-leave arrangements in volunteer roles should become possible, and meetings should also take place digitally or in hybrid form.

The CDU wants to make volunteering easier. Volunteering means helping without pay. It should fit better with family and work. Meetings should also be possible online.

The CDU wants to anchor volunteering as a cross-cutting issue in the state administration and name clear responsibilities. Funding for volunteer structures is to remain reliable after the coronavirus pandemic as well.

The CDU wants the state to look after volunteering better. The state offices should have clear contact persons. Clubs should keep getting reliable funding. This should also apply after Covid.

The CDU wants to develop and expand voluntary service programs such as the FSJ, FÖJ and the Federal Volunteer Service. People doing such a service should be exempt from the broadcasting fee and get a low-cost statewide public transit ticket.

Many young people do a year of voluntary service. The CDU wants to expand these programs. These young people should not pay the broadcasting fee. They should get a cheap ticket for buses and trains across the state.

The CDU wants to raise state funding for sports on a regular basis and amend the Sports Promotion Act to do so. Organized sports are also to receive a share of revenue from online gambling and sports betting.

The CDU wants to give more money to sports. The money should go up regularly. It wants to change a law for this. Sports should also get money from online gambling and sports betting.

The CDU wants every child to be able to swim safely by the end of elementary school. To achieve this, sports and swimming facilities are to be renovated further, and extra exercise programs created in elementary schools and daycare centers.

The CDU wants every child to swim safely after elementary school. Pools and sports fields should be repaired. Elementary schools should have one more hour of exercise each week. Daycare centers should offer more exercise too.

The CDU wants to give more support to pastoral care by religious communities and close funding gaps. A dedicated funding program is planned for the communities' music and youth work after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CDU wants to support pastoral care. Pastoral care means comfort and help in hard times. Religious communities should get more help for this. Their work with music and young people should get money too.

The CDU wants to keep Sunday as a day of rest, citing its Christian meaning and the rest it gives families and workers. The current Bäderverordnung, which governs Sunday shop openings in resort towns, is to stay unchanged.

The CDU wants to keep Sunday as a day off. Sunday is a Christian holiday. Families and workers should have rest on that day. The rules for open shops in resort towns should stay as they are.