FDP on other topics

The FDP wants balanced funding for elite and grassroots sports and secure financing for the state sports federation. North Rhine-Westphalia should keep hosting major sporting events, and the party views a later Olympic bid favorably.

The FDP wants to support sports in NRW. Top-level sports and sports for everyone should both get money. NRW should host big sports events. The FDP also likes the idea of an Olympic bid.

The plan "Nr. 1 Sportland NRW" is to be continued to give the state sports federation planning security. The FDP backs the 2025 World University Games in the Rhine-Ruhr region and is open to a later bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games. Young elite athletes are to have suitable facilities. At the same time, schooling and vocational training should secure their future after a sports career.

The FDP wants to ensure protection from physical and psychological violence in sports. Measures against sexualized violence, bullying, discrimination and racism are to remain part of the state's sports plan.

There is sometimes violence and exclusion in sports. The FDP wants to protect children and young people from this. Clubs should treat people with care. The state should keep helping with that.

The platform points to racist and discriminatory incidents and to cases of sexual abuse in professional and amateur sports. The existing prevention work by the state sports federation, backed by the state, is to continue. By updating the plan "Nr. 1 Sportland NRW," the FDP wants to secure concrete steps and promote a mindful club culture statewide.

The FDP wants every child to be a safe swimmer by the end of elementary school and plans a "Year of Swimming." It also wants to roll out the "Sportplatz Kommune" program statewide to counter physical deficits in children.

Many children cannot swim well. The FDP wants to change that. Every child should swim safely after elementary school. Children should also move more in general.

According to the platform, the state action plan for learning to swim stalled because of the Covid restrictions. The FDP wants to use several approaches to teach swimming; it counts someone as a safe swimmer once they hold the bronze badge. To address posture problems, poor coordination, low endurance and overweight, "Sportplatz Kommune" is to be extended across the state. Green and open spaces for exercise are to be kept or created locally.

The FDP wants to evaluate the state program "Moderne Sportstätte 2022" and keep renovating and expanding sports facilities. Swimming pools are a particular focus.

The FDP wants to keep renewing sports facilities. The state should check what the current program has achieved. Swimming pools above all should get better.

The platform points to the state's 300 million euro investment program, which the FDP says stopped the decay of the nearly 38,000 sports facilities. After an evaluation, renovation, modernization and expansion are to continue based on need. One priority is pool infrastructure.

The FDP wants to cut food waste by informing consumers and creating incentives for supermarkets and restaurants. Nutrition education is to begin in early childhood education and increase appreciation for food.

A lot of food ends up in the trash in Germany. The FDP wants to inform people better. One example is what the best-before date means. Supermarkets and restaurants should get incentives. Children should learn early about healthy food.

According to the platform, about twelve million tons of food are thrown away in Germany each year, more than half of it in private households. It names poor storage, poor shopping planning and misunderstanding of the best-before date as causes. Information campaigns and incentives for retailers and restaurants are meant to counter this. In addition, publicly available information on healthy eating should be offered, and nutrition education should start with young children.

The FDP wants to relax burial law. It wants to examine whether urns may in future be buried on private property, and private operators should be allowed to run cemeteries.

The FDP wants to relax the rules for burials. It wants to check whether urns may be buried on private land. Private companies should also be allowed to run cemeteries.

The platform frames the plan as self-determination beyond death. Urn burials on private land are to be examined first. The operation of cemeteries is to be opened to third parties such as private companies.

The FDP wants to expand digital counseling by consumer advice centers and strengthen debt counseling in municipalities. It relies on information and advice rather than paternalism.

The FDP wants more online advice for consumers. People should get an appointment faster. People with debts should also get better help. The FDP wants to inform people, not tell them what to do.

All services of the consumer advice centers should also be available online, as an appointment or as information on demand. This is meant to speed up appointments and cover more topics. Parallel structures in debt and consumer insolvency counseling should be merged. The FDP justifies this with the goal of a second chance for people in financial trouble.