Grüne: program for the 2026 Baden-Württemberg state election

The Greens want to make Baden-Württemberg Germany's leading location for new businesses and new technologies. Lead candidate Cem Özdemir says he will make entrepreneurship a top-level priority so that the state's high spending on innovation pays off more.

The Greens want more new companies in the state. Baden-Württemberg should be the top place for this in Germany. Cem Özdemir wants to take care of this himself as head of government. New ideas should also earn money in the state.

The Greens want to maintain and renew the state's infrastructure. They plan further repairs to transport routes, faster broadband rollout and investment in the power system, because the platform says a strong economy depends on it.

The Greens want to repair roads, bridges and rail lines. Fast internet should be built out more quickly. There should also be more power lines and storage. The party says the economy needs this.

The Greens want to support approaches such as the Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie (economy for the common good) at state level and promote cooperatives. The aim is to win more companies over to sustainable and socially minded business.

The Greens want to support companies that think about the environment and society. Cooperatives should also get help. In a cooperative, the members decide together. The party says profit is not the only thing that counts there.

The Greens want to develop a technology strategy through 2035 and start a deep-tech research program backed by its own fund. Research findings should turn into products faster and secure jobs.

The Greens want a plan for new technology up to the year 2035. There should be a research program with its own money. Ideas from the lab should become products faster. This should keep good jobs.

The Greens want to set up spaces where new ideas can be tried out with fewer hurdles. They intend to use the protected test environments supported by the EU to bring innovations to market faster.

The Greens want to create places for trying things out. Companies and researchers can test new ideas there. There should be fewer obstacles. The EU supports such test places.

The Greens want to further strengthen the health industry as a pillar of the state's economy. To do so, the state agency BIOPRO is to be expanded and the university hospitals in Heidelberg and Mannheim are to be merged.

The Greens want to strengthen the health industry. A state agency called BIOPRO should get more tasks. The university hospitals in Heidelberg and Mannheim should join together. This should improve research and care.

The Greens want to further develop the state's strategy for attracting companies. Enough land should be available for businesses while using land sparingly.

The Greens want companies to find enough space in the state. This applies to new companies, trades and industry. The state should use land sparingly.

The Greens want to strengthen the state's foreign trade policy, expand partnerships and reduce one-sided dependencies. In Brussels, the party wants to push for more room for the state to support economic transformation in a targeted way.

The Greens want more cooperation with other countries. The state should not depend on single partners. This should help companies find new customers. At the EU, the party wants the state to be allowed to support companies better.

The Greens want to make the state less dependent on raw material imports. They rely on domestic extraction, recycling of materials and continuing the state strategy for a sustainable bioeconomy.

The Greens want the state to need fewer raw materials from abroad. Raw materials should also be sourced in the state. Valuable materials should be used again and again. This is called a circular economy.

The Greens advocate supply chains that are transparent and crisis-proof and that respect human rights as well as environmental and social standards. The European supply chain law is to be implemented in a practical way with little red tape.

The Greens want secure supply chains. A supply chain is the path of a product from raw material to customer. Human rights and environmental rules should apply along the way. The EU law on this should be easy to follow.

The Greens want the car of the future to be developed and built in Baden-Württemberg and are betting on electric drive. A future pact with industry, unions and research is to set goals and funding and secure jobs.

The Greens want to keep the car industry in the state. The car of the future should be built here. The party is counting on electric cars. There should be more charging stations and cheap charging power. Government, companies and unions should make a pact for this.

The Greens want to expand battery manufacturing in the state and in Europe and back a joint European industrial project to that end. The party also pushes for new semiconductor and chip plants in Germany and the EU.

The Greens want car batteries to be built in Europe. They support an EU plan for this. Computer chips should also be made in Germany and Europe. This should make Europe less dependent on other countries.

The Greens want to turn environmental and climate technology into one of the state's fastest-growing industries. They plan a GreenTech alliance that supports start-ups and mid-sized firms, especially in hydrogen technology, along with a shared umbrella brand.

The Greens want to give more support to green technology firms. They plan a new alliance for this. It helps young firms and mid-sized firms. A shared brand should make these firms known abroad.

The Greens want to lower the barriers to starting a business. A single point of contact would bundle advice, funding and registration so that a company can be founded within one day.

The Greens want to make it easier to start a business. There should be one office for everything. It gives advice, funding and handles the registration. Starting a business should take only 24 hours.

The Greens want to give young companies more state support in both the early and the growth stage. The early-stage program would be enlarged, and a new program with its own fund would support expansion and international growth.

The Greens want to give young firms more money. An existing program for the early phase should grow. A new program helps firms get bigger. The state should also buy from young firms itself.

The Greens want to relieve small and mid-sized companies of administrative burdens and reorganize the state's funding programs. According to the platform, businesses should be able to put their energy into products and jobs rather than paperwork.

The Greens want less paperwork for businesses. Rules that are not needed should go. Permits should come faster. Funding should be easier to find and apply for.

The Greens want master craftsman training to be free of charge and the Meisterprämie (master craftsman bonus) to be raised. They also want to make founding and taking over craft businesses more attractive, since the platform says demographic change threatens many firms.

The Greens want to strengthen skilled trades. Training to become a master craftsman should be free. The bonus for new masters should go up. People who start or take over a business should get help for longer.

The Greens want to help brick-and-mortar retail hold its ground against growing online shopping. Town centers are to become more attractive, and stores would get help with digital sales.

The Greens want to help shops in towns and villages. Town centers should become nicer and greener. Shops should get help with selling online. Online sellers should also be able to sell in town.

The Greens want to make tourism in the state more sustainable and more digital. They point to the climate crisis and heavy visitor numbers at popular sites and see hospitality as the core of sustainable tourism.

The Greens want to strengthen tourism in the state. It should be good for nature and the climate. Digital offers should make visits more exciting. Restaurants and inns should get support, especially in rural areas.

The Greens want to bring ideas from research to market more quickly. A fast-track procedure is planned for especially important products such as medicines, and research funding for key technologies is to grow.

The Greens want new ideas from research to reach people faster. Important products like medicines should get a fast procedure. The state should give more money for research on key technologies.

The Greens want to give more support to spin-offs and start-ups and simplify the founding process. For technology-oriented start-ups, support is to be targeted at women, people with a migration background and people from families without university experience.

The Greens want more people to start companies. Starting a company should become easier. Women and people with a migration background should get special help. People whose parents did not go to college should also get help.

The Greens want to maintain and expand the state's position as a hub of the bicycle industry. To that end, training for bicycle trades is to improve and a university chair for bicycle engineering is to be founded.

Baden-Württemberg has many bicycle companies. The Greens want to make this industry stronger. There should be better training for bicycle jobs. A university should do research on bicycle technology. E-bikes should also get more support.

The Greens want to amend the Ladenöffnungsgesetz (shop opening hours act) so that automated, unstaffed mini supermarkets can also open on Sundays. In addition, municipalities are to get help with digitalization, and telemedicine services are to be funded.

Small shops without staff should be allowed to open on Sundays. The Greens want to change a law for this. This helps people in rural areas buy groceries. Doctors should also be able to help by video.

The Greens want to give apprentices a grant toward their driver's license, split evenly between the state and the training company. This is meant to ease entry into occupations where a license is often expected and help fill open apprenticeship slots.

Many companies cannot find apprentices. The Greens want to give apprentices money for a driver's license. The state pays one half. The company pays the other half.

The Greens want to strengthen works councils and employee co-determination and oppose union busting. They also want to act against abuse of temporary agency work and service contracts and achieve equal pay for women.

The Greens want good and fair work. Works councils should become stronger. No one should abuse temp work. Women should get the same pay for the same work.

The Greens want to broaden the state law on collective-wage compliance and minimum wages in public contracts. The aim is to strengthen collective bargaining coverage and protect regional firms from undercutting bids, for example in construction.

The state gives contracts to companies. The Greens want these companies to pay fair wages. The minimum wage for such contracts should go up. The rules should apply to more contracts.

The Greens want to integrate people with disabilities more effectively into the regular labor market. Accommodations, certified partial qualifications and advantages for inclusive companies in public contracting are meant to help.

The Greens want more people with disabilities in regular jobs. They should get support to make up for disadvantages. Inclusive companies should get state contracts more often. Inclusion means everyone can take part.

The Greens want to provide more money for anti-poverty counseling and put the state's programs for the unemployed on a permanent footing. The goal is to move people into the regular labor market through training and coaching.

The Greens want to give better help to people without work. There should be more counseling for people in debt. People at risk of losing their home also get help. A state program for the unemployed should get permanent funding.

The Greens want to implement the Bundesteilhabegesetz (Federal Participation Act), which governs benefits for people with disabilities, in a simpler and more person-centered way. Routine reassessments of entitlements could be replaced by reviews triggered by a specific reason.

People with disabilities get help under a federal law. The Greens want to make the process simpler. Offices should not keep checking claims again and again. They should only check when there is a reason.

The Greens want to continue the state's continuing-education initiative and create a qualification income that lets working people take time off to learn. They justify this with changes in the world of work and the need to secure skilled labor.

The world of work is changing a lot. So the Greens want more further training. Workers should be able to take time off to learn. They should get money during that time.

The Greens want to give more support to the "Housing First" approach in order to reduce homelessness over the long term. Existing pilot projects are to continue permanently, and new locations are to receive money and advice.

Some people have no home. With "Housing First" they get a home first. Other help comes after that. The Greens want to offer this in more places. The state gives money and advice for it.

The Greens want people with disabilities or support needs to be able to choose freely how they live. To that end, inclusive and outpatient-supported forms of housing are to be expanded, suitable assistance secured and bureaucratic hurdles reduced.

People with disabilities should decide for themselves how they live. The Greens want to create more suitable housing for this. There should be good help in daily life. Applications should become simpler.

The Greens want to review the per-place funding for organizations running the Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr and Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (voluntary social and ecological years) and give them planning certainty. A statewide advertising campaign for volunteer service is under consideration.

Young people can do a voluntary year. It is called FSJ or FÖJ. The Greens want to check how much money the providers get. Providers should be able to plan with confidence.

The Greens want to strengthen debt counseling and anti-poverty services, expand Housing First programs and prevent people from losing their homes. Child poverty is to be tackled with prevention networks, and a state initiative is to address loneliness.

Some people have debts or lose their homes. The Greens want to give them more help. Poor children are to get support early. The Greens also want to do something about loneliness.

The Greens want to channel part of the reserves for civil servant pensions into sustainable projects within the state. This would make it easier for municipalities to invest in heating networks, which the platform says also benefits local businesses and trades.

The state saves money for the pensions of civil servants. The Greens want to invest part of it within the state. The money should go into sustainable projects. One example is heating networks in towns and cities.

The Greens want to secure the finances of cities and towns for the long term, in the short run through a larger municipal share of value-added tax revenue. Under the connexity principle, whoever assigns tasks to municipalities should also provide the money.

Many cities and towns have too little money. The Greens want to give them more money from sales tax. Whoever gives towns new tasks should also pay for them. This applies to the state, the federal government and the EU.

The Greens want to attract private money for public infrastructure and climate protection and expand the state's green bonds. In the platform's view, the energy transition and modernization can only be financed with public and private funds together.

Climate protection and new networks cost a lot of money. The Greens also want to use money from private investors for this. The state issues green bonds for this purpose. There should be more of them.

The Greens want to pass two thirds of the more than 13 billion euros that Baden-Württemberg receives from the federal special fund on to municipalities. The rest is to go as state investment into university hospitals, universities and transport infrastructure.

Baden-Württemberg gets more than 13 billion euros from the federal government. The Greens want to give two thirds to cities and towns. This should improve schools, daycare, roads and buses. The rest goes to hospitals and universities.

The Greens say they are open to reforming the Schuldenbremse (debt brake) at the state level too, but consider a limit on the debt ratio right in principle. At the same time, they want to review existing spending and target funding more precisely.

The debt brake limits new government debt. The Greens want to be able to change this rule in the state. But there should still be a limit on debt. The state should spend money in a more targeted way and save in some places.

The Greens want to prosecute tax fraud, money laundering and organized financial crime more vigorously and expand the tax administration's staff and digital tools for that purpose. They justify this with fairness toward everyone who pays taxes honestly.

Some people and companies cheat on taxes. The Greens want to go after this more strongly. Tax offices should get more staff and better technology. People who pay taxes honestly should not be worse off.

The Greens want to push at the federal level to close inheritance tax exemptions they regard as unfair. They argue that unequally distributed wealth stands in the way of equal opportunity.

Wealth is unevenly shared in Germany. The Greens think this is unfair. The tax on inheritances has exceptions for very large fortunes. The Greens want to end these exceptions at the federal level.

The Greens want to lower the Grunderwerbsteuer (property transfer tax) for people buying a home for the first time to live in themselves. This requires the federal government to allow it by law. The relief is to be designed in a socially fair way.

People who buy a house pay a tax. It is called property transfer tax. The Greens want to lower it for a first purchase. This applies to people who live there themselves. First the federal government must allow it.

The Greens want a state-owned housing company that builds and rents out homes itself. It is to buy back large housing portfolios from private companies. A funding program would also enable municipalities to purchase housing.

The Greens want a housing company owned by the state. It should build and rent out homes. It should also buy many homes from private companies. Cities and towns should get money to buy homes.

The Greens want to make the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) a permanent part of tenancy law and push for its expansion at the federal level. In the state it is to apply in more areas, and a rent monitor is to check compliance.

The rent brake limits rents in new leases. The Greens want it to apply for good. It should apply in more places. A computer program should check rental ads. This shows the town where rents are too high.

The Greens want to make the ban on misusing housing for other purposes more effective. Municipalities are to be able to inspect and sanction vacancies more easily so that empty or repurposed homes are lived in again.

Some homes stand empty or are used for other things. The Greens want to change that. Towns should be able to check empty homes better. They should also be able to give fines. The state helps list empty homes.

The Greens want to put more money into social housing support and simplify it. Instead of about 3,000, at least 5,000 new social housing units are to be created each year. Existing rent restrictions are to be preserved and future ones extended.

Social housing means homes with low rent. Today about 3,000 are created each year. The Greens want at least 5,000. The state gives more money for this. The homes should stay cheap for longer.

The Greens want to make the "Junges Wohnen" (young living) program permanent and build significantly more dorm places. In university towns, 30 percent of students are to be offered a dorm place. For apprentices, the hurdles to renting are to come down.

Young people have a hard time finding a home. The Greens want to build more dorms. Almost one in three students should get a place there. Apprentices should get a lease more easily. Proof of their training will be enough.

The Greens want to make communal, inclusive and accessible housing a core part of housing support. Developers and cooperatives oriented toward the common good are to receive state loan guarantees. Housing for company employees is also to get more support.

The Greens want to support new ways of living. For example shared homes for older people. Small building groups and cooperatives get a guarantee from the state. This means the state backs their loan. Companies also get help when they build homes for staff.

The Greens want to introduce a Baden-Württemberg standard for affordable building and remodeling. All building requirements are to be checked for whether they are necessary. Municipalities should also be able to easily set the mandatory parking space requirement to zero.

Building has become expensive. The Greens want to review the building rules. Rules that are not needed should go. Hamburg serves as a model. Towns should be able to say: no one has to build parking here.

The Greens want building standards geared more closely to actual need, leaner planning and faster permits. Model contracts are meant to protect private builders from liability for standards that go beyond what the law requires. The aim is more affordable housing.

The Greens want building to cost less. Building rules should be simpler. Permits should come faster. There should be ready-made contract templates. They protect people who build a home.

The Greens want to advance resource-saving, circular construction: building components and materials should be easier to reuse. New funding programs and centers are meant to bring innovations into building practice faster and make construction cheaper.

The Greens want less building material to be thrown away. Old building parts should be used again. New buildings should be easy to convert. Companies with new ideas for building should get money.

The Greens want town centers and neighborhoods with short distances, green spaces and meeting places, adapted to heat and heavy rain. Public spaces should be open to everyone without pressure to spend money, and meeting places for children and young people should be preserved.

The Greens want good neighborhoods for everyone. There should be more green and more shade. This helps with heat and heavy rain. Public squares should be open to all. Children and young people should have places to meet.

The Greens want more low-barrier housing and age-friendly neighborhoods so that people can stay in familiar surroundings as they grow old. A relocation bonus is meant to make it easier to move into a smaller home in the same neighborhood, freeing up space for families.

The Greens want more homes without barriers. Older people should be able to stay in their neighborhood. People who move to a smaller home should get a bonus. Then the big home is free for families.

The Greens want to expand the state's land fund so that municipalities can secure plots for social, ecological and public purposes. The program cites church-owned land as an example, which in the party's view could otherwise end up with speculators when sold.

The state has a fund for land. It helps towns and cities buy plots. The Greens want to improve this fund. That way, land stays available for affordable homes and for the public.

The Greens want to keep funding the conversion of vacant buildings into homes and allow such changes of use without a permit procedure. This is meant to save land, revive town and village centers and create housing, especially in rural areas.

Some buildings in rural areas stand empty. The Greens want to turn them into homes. Funding for this will continue. Conversions should be possible without a long procedure.

The Greens want to expand child and family centers that offer counseling, in order to ease the load on families whatever their way of organizing work and home life. They also plan to examine funding for social-work services and easy-access parent counseling in daycare centers.

The Greens want to help families more. There should be more child and family centers. Parents can get advice there. Daycare centers may also offer advice for parents. The Greens want to check this.

The Greens want to make the last daycare year before school both compulsory and free of charge. In addition, the state is to put more money into daycare so that fees rise less, and to point to income-based fees as a route to greater fairness.

The Greens want the last daycare year to be free. All children must attend this year. The state should pay more for daycare. Then fees will not rise as much. Families with less money should pay less.

The Greens want to further strengthen the protection of children from violence, including online. A state survivors' council is meant to bring the perspective of people affected by sexualized violence permanently into policymaking. Counseling and support for families and networks against child poverty are to be expanded.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. This also applies online. People who were affected should have a say in a council. Families should easily find advice and help. There should be networks against child poverty everywhere.

The Greens want to renew the promise of upward mobility and rely on good education starting in daycare. Vocational training is to be strengthened and the Meister (master craftsman) qualification put on equal footing with a master's degree.

The Greens want good education for all children. It should start in daycare. People who work hard should get ahead in life. A master craftsman's training should count as much as a university degree.

The Greens want to conclude a new higher education funding agreement with a high level of core funding in the next legislative term. This is meant to let universities decide independently and set their own priorities.

The Greens want to keep giving universities a lot of money. There will be a new agreement for this. Universities should decide for themselves how to use the money. Buildings should be renovated.

The Greens want to abolish the tuition fees that foreign students pay in Baden-Württemberg. The plan is tied to the goal of education that is open to everyone.

Students from other countries pay fees in Baden-Württemberg. The Greens want to end these fees. Studying should be open to everyone.

The Greens want to actively recruit top researchers from abroad whose academic freedom is at risk in their home countries. The platform justifies this with the pressure that authoritarian forces worldwide put on teaching and research.

In some countries researchers cannot work freely. The Greens want to bring such researchers to Baden-Württemberg. The state should help them with this. Their families should get support too.

The Greens want to expand teams of different professions in daycare centers (Kitas), make the state's early-education framework more binding and improve the staff-to-child ratio. More training routes for early-childhood educators are meant to secure reliable opening hours.

The Greens want better daycare centers. More experts should work there, for example for language and social work. Each staff member should care for fewer children. There should be more training for daycare workers. Then daycare centers can stay open reliably.

The Greens want to continue the early language support program SprachFit and add support for basic math skills. The state's reading strategy is also to be stepped up, because too few children meet the standards in reading, writing and arithmetic.

Many children cannot read, write and do math well enough. The Greens want to keep the SprachFit program. It helps children learn German. Early help with math should be added. Children should also practice reading more.

The Greens want to extend the "Startchancen-Programm BW" to additional schools and daycare centers in socially difficult areas. A social index is meant to ensure that extra money reaches the places where need is greatest.

Some schools and daycare centers have a harder job. They get extra money from a program. The Greens want more schools and daycare centers to get this money. A social index shows where help is needed most.

The Greens want to make financial education a fixed part of schooling. Young people should learn to handle topics such as taxes, insurance and retirement provision regardless of their family background.

The Greens want students to learn more about money at school. They should also learn about taxes and insurance. This should help everyone. It should not depend on what their parents know.

The Greens want to gear teacher education more toward classroom practice and expand the dual teacher-training degree. The Referendariat (post-degree practical training) is to become easier to plan, including through new exam formats and pay over the summer break.

The Greens want better training for teachers. Students should practice in schools earlier. After university, new teachers do a practical training phase. It may get two start dates a year. Trainees who finish in summer keep getting paid during the break.

The Greens want to keep investing in all-day school programs and support municipalities with construction so that the legal entitlement for primary school children from September 2029 can be met. They favor a binding model with lessons and breaks spread across the day that is free for parents.

From September 2029, primary school children have a right to all-day care. The Greens want more all-day schools. The state gives towns money for this. Children do their homework at school. There should be quiet rooms and a warm lunch.

The Greens want to merge existing student files into one unified education record and give each child an education ID. The aim is to keep information on support needs from getting lost when children change institutions and to allow data-based quality checks of schools.

The Greens want one education file for each child. Each child gets a personal number, the education ID. New teachers then know what help a child needs. The data also show how well schools work.

The Greens want all children to receive a free, balanced lunch at school, beginning with the schools in the Startchancen program. Children with allergies or food intolerances are to be catered for safely and allowed to eat their own food in the cafeteria.

The Greens want a free lunch for all school children. It starts at schools that get special support. The food should be healthy. Some children cannot eat certain foods. They may bring their own food to the cafeteria.

The Greens want to offer ethics step by step in every grade as a complement to religious education. Islamic religious education is to continue in cooperation with universities, and the joint classes run by the two major churches are to receive more support.

The Greens want ethics classes in all grades. This should come step by step. It is also for children who do not take religion class. Islamic religion class should continue. Protestant and Catholic children should have religion class together more often.

The Greens want school success to depend less on the family home. To that end, practice work is to take place more in class, in-school learning support is to be expanded, and primary schools can become contact points for families.

Not all parents can help with homework. The Greens want children to practice more in class. Teachers help them there. There should be more learning support at school. Primary schools can also become a meeting place for families.

The Greens want an action plan to make more inclusive schooling possible and improve the conditions for it. As many children with special educational needs as possible are to earn a general school diploma, and parents are to be able to choose between inclusive and special-education settings.

The Greens want children with and without disabilities to learn together more often. They are making a plan for this. Schools get more staff and money for it. Parents can still choose: a shared school or a special school. Children who are sick for a long time should be able to join online.

The Greens want to give schools more room to decide for themselves and to free principals and teachers from administrative work. An innovation budget, school networks and a new approach to exams are meant to raise teaching quality.

The Greens want schools to decide more on their own. Teachers and principals should have less office work. More office staff will help. Schools get money for new ideas. Exams should become more modern.

The Greens want to further expand democracy and media education in schools and give students more say. The new compulsory subject "Informatik und Medienbildung" (computer science and media literacy) is to be consolidated and teach everyone about artificial intelligence.

The Greens want students to learn more about democracy and media. Students should have more say at school. They learn to check news. They also learn how artificial intelligence works. Well-trained teachers are needed for this.

The Greens want every student to visit a memorial site for Nazi crimes at least once during their school years. Funding for such trips is to be expanded and simplified in order to strengthen the culture of remembrance and counter antisemitism.

The Greens want every student to visit a memorial site once. These places remember the crimes of the Nazis. Schools will get money for this more easily. The Greens want to act against hatred of Jews and other groups.

The Greens want to keep supporting municipalities in renovating and modernizing schools and add an "innovation component" for modern room concepts to the state's school construction funding. Sports and swimming facilities are to get more support, and applications are to become simpler.

The Greens want to renovate and modernize schools. The state gives towns money for this. There is extra money for new room ideas. School gyms and swimming pools also get more money. Applications should become easier.

The Greens want the state to cover one third of the cost of school social work and to raise its subsidies accordingly. Because mental strain among children and teenagers has increased, school psychology services are also to be expanded with additional positions.

More and more children and teenagers have mental health problems. The Greens want more school psychologists. The state should also pay more for school social work. It should cover one third of the cost. Schools get help against bullying and violence.

The Greens want to place primary school teachers in pay grade A13 (civil servants) or E13 (employees) in the future. They argue that primary school lays the foundation for the rest of a child's education.

The Greens want primary school teachers to earn more. They should move to pay grade A13 or E13. Primary school is very important for all children. Teachers should still be able to work part-time.

The Greens want Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive-style community schools) to offer their own university-track upper level in as many places as possible. The platform argues that this school type keeps the path to a university entrance qualification open for a long time and supports both strong and weaker students.

The Greens want more upper levels at community schools. An upper level leads to the Abitur, the diploma for university. This should be available almost everywhere in the state. That keeps the path to university open longer.

The Greens want the state parliament to set up an inquiry commission (Enquete-Kommission) on the future school landscape. The dialogue is to be based on scientific evidence and build on the school reforms that took effect in the 2025/2026 school year.

The Greens want a commission in the state parliament. It will talk about the future of schools. Many groups will take part. Research will be the basis.

The Greens want teaching positions and funds to be distributed across all school types by uniform, transparent criteria. The school's tasks, class sizes and the social makeup of its students are to be the deciding factors.

The Greens want to share money and staff more fairly among schools. Schools with harder conditions should get more. The rules should be clear to everyone. Principals should decide more on their own.

The Greens want to support immigrant children and teenagers in preparatory classes so that they reach at least language level B1 before starting vocational training. Learning workshops are to be created for young people for whom regular school tracks are not a good fit.

The Greens want to help young immigrants learn German. They should speak German well before job training starts. There will be more preparatory classes. New learning workshops combine language, math and hands-on work.

The Greens want to keep and strengthen training-preparation programs at vocational schools and to establish youth employment agencies permanently across the state. The aim is to reach young people without a training place early and reduce youth unemployment.

Some young people do not find a training place. The Greens want to help them more. There should be youth job agencies everywhere in the state. Different offices and youth services work together there.

The Greens want to lengthen the obligation to attend vocational school. For young people without a training contract it would apply until the end of their twelfth year of schooling.

The Greens want young people to attend vocational school longer. Those without job training must go until their twelfth school year. Apprentices must go until about age 21.

The Greens want to launch a state-funded training initiative that relieves smaller businesses and finances vocational training on a shared basis. They also want more affordable dormitory places and apprentice service organizations, to put vocational and academic education on a more equal footing.

The Greens want to strengthen job training. The state will pay for this. Small businesses should carry less of the burden. Apprentices should get more low-cost dorm places.

The Greens want to raise state subsidies to the Studierendenwerke (student services organizations) and tie them permanently to price trends. This is meant to secure low-cost housing, cafeteria meals and counseling despite higher living costs.

Studying has become more expensive. The Greens want to give student services more money. That keeps housing and meals cheap for students. Student aid applications should be processed faster.

The Greens want to establish a statewide student congress that brings together students, university leaders, student services and politicians. The platform also commits to the Verfasste Studierendenschaft (statutory student body) as a representative organ.

The Greens want a congress for students. Students will talk there with universities and politicians. Randomly chosen students will also take part. Students should keep their say at universities.

The Greens aim to raise base funding for general continuing education to the level of comparable large German states. Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and church-run providers should thus be able to keep courses affordable for everyone.

Adult education centers offer courses for everyone. The Greens want to give them more money. That keeps courses affordable. Advice on further education should also stay for good.

The Greens want more young people to experience Europe through cross-border exchange, vocational training and study. Erasmus+ is to become better known, cross-border apprenticeships are to increase and university networks such as EUCOR are to grow.

Young people should get to know Europe better. More trainees should do part of their training in a neighboring country. The Erasmus+ program should become better known. Universities should work more closely with universities across Europe. Schools should teach more about Europe.

The Greens want new medical developments to reach patients more quickly. To that end, university hospitals, universities, research institutions and companies are to work together more closely.

The Greens want new medicine to reach sick people faster. Hospitals, researchers and companies should work together more closely. Heidelberg and Mannheim should become a top place for medical research.

The Greens rely on a strong public health system. They call on the federal government to fund hospital treatment reliably, and the state is to keep raising its investment funding for hospitals.

The Greens want good hospitals for everyone. The federal government should pay for treatment reliably. The state should give more money for buildings and equipment.

The Greens want training in health professions to be free of school fees. According to the program, the fees deter many young people from careers such as speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy, even though there is demand.

Some training courses in health care cost money. Physical therapy is one example. The Greens want to end these fees. Then more young people will take up this training.

The Greens want to push ahead with digitalization in health care and promote telemedicine. Family doctors' offices should be reachable and able to advise digitally, which is meant above all to strengthen care in rural areas.

The Greens want more digital services at the doctor's. Patients should also be able to talk to doctors by video. This helps people in the countryside most. But technology should not replace people.

The Greens want to strengthen professional nursing care through modernized training, new job profiles, more say for nurses and better working conditions. Family caregivers are to be relieved by more day-care and short-term care places. A „Pakt der Pflege“ (care pact) is meant to secure local care.

The Greens want to strengthen nursing care. Training should become more modern. Nurses should have more say. Many people care for relatives at home. They should get more help, for example through day care.

The Greens want to launch an initiative called „Hausärztliche Versorgung“ to close gaps in basic medical care. It includes a new quota for rural pediatricians, a municipal doctors' fund and better conditions in the practical year of medical school.

Rural areas often lack doctors. The Greens want to change that. There should be study places for future rural children's doctors. A fund should support new practices in the countryside. Medical students should get enough pay in their practical year.

The Greens want to expand research on sex- and gender-specific differences in medicine because, in their account, drugs and therapies are tested mainly on men. Trans and intersex people should be treated without discrimination. Midwifery care is to be secured across the state.

Many medicines are tested mostly on men. The Greens want more research on women's health. Doctors should learn to treat trans and intersex people fairly. There should be enough midwives everywhere.

The Greens want a health system that prevents illness rather than only reacting to it. To that end, a statewide prevention strategy is to be developed, school health professionals tested at more schools and the public health service developed further.

The Greens want people not to get sick in the first place. There should be a plan for the whole state. More schools should have health staff. The public health offices should also do more for prevention.

The Greens put prevention at the center of their drug and addiction policy. They want services where users can have the contents of drugs tested, and they want to expand health care for people who are addicted or at risk.

The Greens want to prevent addiction. People should be able to have drugs tested. Then they know what is in them. This should protect them from dangerous substances. People with an addiction should get good help.

The Greens want to secure the supply of basic medicines by promoting regional production of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Local pharmacies are to be strengthened so that supply stays close to where people live.

Sometimes important medicines are missing, such as fever syrup for children. The Greens want more medicines to be made in the region. Local pharmacies should also be strengthened.

The Greens want to close gaps in care for people with mental illness, especially in rural areas. Prevention should start early, with more school psychologists and more therapy places for children and young people. A strategy against loneliness is also to be developed.

Many people have mental illnesses. They often struggle to find help. The Greens want more therapy places, especially in the countryside. Schools should have more psychologists. Lonely people should get places to turn to.

The Greens want to renovate and build rescue stations, improve staffing and technology at dispatch centers and deploy community paramedics. The shorter response-time target is not to come at the expense of employees.

The Greens want to repair and build rescue stations. Dispatch centers take emergency calls. They should get more experts and shared software. Community paramedics should help with less serious cases. That gives rescue teams more time for real emergencies.

The Greens want to lay the groundwork for joint emergency care with Alsace and northwestern Switzerland. In health care more broadly, bureaucratic hurdles for staff and patients at the border are to be removed.

In an emergency, the border should not matter. Rescue services from three countries should train and help together. Doctors and nurses should find it easier to work in the neighboring country. Patients should be treated where it is fastest.

The Greens want heritage-language classes, currently organized by consulates, to be offered under state responsibility in the future. This is part of their goal of better integrating children with a migration or refugee background in schools.

Some children also learn their family's language at school. Right now, consulates of other countries organize this. The Greens want the state to be in charge in the future. Children from immigrant families should feel more included.

The Greens see language and work as the keys to integration. They want language courses at all levels to be available from the start and to promote immigrants' participation in the labor market more specifically, especially for women.

Immigrants should be able to learn German quickly. There should be more language courses. They should also be allowed to work soon. Women should get special support.

The Greens want to manage labor migration and lower barriers for foreign skilled workers in order to ease labor shortages. Immigration offices are to become more efficient and foreign qualifications recognized faster.

Skilled workers from abroad should be able to come more easily. This should help with the shortage of workers. Immigration offices should work faster. Foreign degrees should be accepted sooner.

The Greens commit to the constitutional right to asylum and to international refugee conventions. Trainees and employees who have not committed serious crimes should not be deported; legal leeway is to be used uniformly across the state in favor of a right to stay.

The Greens want to protect the right to asylum. People who work or train here should be allowed to stay. This does not apply after serious crimes. The payment card should work simply.

According to the platform, people with neither a right of residence nor a prospect of staying, and with no obstacles to deportation, must leave. Voluntary return is to take priority; deportations are to concentrate on serious offenders and people considered security threats.

People who may not stay must leave. It is best if they leave by choice. Deportations should mainly affect serious offenders. Authorities should find out faster who someone is.

The Greens want to launch a new admission program for Yazidis and enable the family reunification still outstanding. Survivors of the genocide are not to be deported, and aid in northern Iraq is to grow.

Yazidis are a religious group. They suffered a genocide in Iraq. The Greens want a new aid program for them. Families should be allowed to follow. Survivors should not be deported.

The Greens want more women to be able to work and the pay gap with men to shrink. The platform names better work-family balance as a key element and also sees it as a competitive advantage against the skilled-labor shortage.

The Greens want more women to be able to work. Women should earn as much as men. Family and work should fit together better. For this, there should be more childcare.

The Greens want to give early-career researchers more security and a stronger say, and to further raise the share of women among professors and university leaders. They want to counter discrimination at universities.

Young researchers often only have short contracts. The Greens want to give them more security. More women should become professors. Nobody should be treated unfairly at universities.

The Greens want teacher training to build more awareness of the realities queer children and teenagers face. Together with education providers from the queer community, they want to foster a school culture in which these students feel safe and accepted.

Queer people are, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. The Greens want teachers to learn more about queer students. No one should be left out at school. Queer students should feel safe at school.

The Greens want to create tailored counseling for people who are the first in their family to attend university. They also want to attract more women to STEM degrees and skilled trades, and more men to midwifery.

Some people are the first in their family to go to university. The Greens want special advice for them. More women should study science and technology. More women should also work in skilled trades.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for removing abortion from the Criminal Code. Within the state, there should be secure and timely access to abortion everywhere, and pregnancy counseling is to be expanded.

Abortion is in the criminal law today. The Greens want to change that. Women should decide about their own bodies. There should be doctors for an abortion everywhere in the state. Counseling for pregnant women should get better.

The Greens want to achieve statewide coverage with women's shelters and implement the Istanbul Convention against violence against women. Equality of all genders is to be advanced and the protection of queer people improved.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The Greens want enough of them everywhere in the state. All genders should have equal chances. Queer people should also be better protected.

The Greens want to revise the state's Chancengleichheitsgesetz (equal opportunity act) so that gender equality becomes more effective and binding. They advocate equal pay and more women in leadership positions.

Women and men should have equal chances. A state law should become stricter for this. Women should get the same pay for the same work. More women should become bosses.

The Greens want to add sexual identity to the anti-discrimination clause of the Basic Law and modernize family and parentage law so that rainbow families have legal security. Existing support structures for queer people in the state are to be developed and funded for the long term.

Queer people should be better protected. The constitution should ban unfair treatment because of sexual identity. Families with two mothers or two fathers should get equal rights. Counseling should also exist in rural areas.

The Greens want to fight violence against women through prevention and prosecution. They call on the federal government to create a separate criminal offense for femicide, rely on electronic ankle monitors, and want to ensure enough women's shelters and counseling centers across the state.

Women and girls should be better protected from violence. Killing a woman because she is a woman should be its own crime. Dangerous offenders should wear an ankle monitor. There should be enough women's shelters.

The Greens want an equal treatment act to protect people from discrimination by public authorities. Anti-discrimination projects and counseling centers are to receive reliable funding, and a prevention network against hate crime is to be built.

No one should be treated worse by public offices. A strong law should make sure of that. Counseling centers against unfair treatment should get steady funding. A network should help prevent hate crimes.

The Greens want to protect Jewish life, step up education about antisemitism in schools and secure permanent counseling centers against antisemitism. The Islamberatung Baden-Württemberg (Islam advisory service) is to become the central point of contact for Muslim communities.

Jewish people should live without fear. Schools should teach more about hatred of Jews. There should be lasting counseling centers. Muslim communities should get one central contact office.

The Greens want to stick with the expansion of renewable energy while keeping energy costs for businesses and households as low as possible. The platform argues that climate protection can only succeed with a strong economy.

The Greens want to keep building solar and wind power. At the same time, energy should cost as little as possible. This applies to companies, tradespeople and citizens. The party says climate protection needs a strong economy.

The Greens want to make electricity cheaper and call for lowering the electricity tax for all consumers to the minimum rate permitted in the EU. This is meant to relieve both businesses and private households.

The Greens want electricity to be cheaper. The tax on electricity should go down for everyone. It should be as low as the EU allows. This helps businesses and households.

The Greens want to keep the phase-out of nuclear power, which they classify as a high-risk technology. They reject restarting plants that have been shut down.

The Greens do not want nuclear power anymore. They think nuclear power is very dangerous. Plants that were shut down should stay off. Power should come from wind and sun.

The Greens want to keep expanding wind power and ground-mounted solar and earmark three percent of the state's land area for this. The state is to be climate-neutral by 2040 and end its dependence on fossil fuels.

The Greens want to build more wind turbines and solar plants. Three percent of the state's land should be kept for this. Baden-Württemberg should be climate-neutral by 2040. Climate-neutral means the state no longer harms the climate.

The Greens want to expand distribution grids and use digital technology to make the power system more flexible. According to the platform, a flexible system is to be the backbone of future supply and help lower electricity prices.

The Greens want to expand the power grids. New plants should be able to feed in power quickly. Digital power meters should be easy to get. Then the price of power can change with the time of day.

The Greens want to put the existing municipal heat plans into practice quickly and expand heating networks. Municipalities would get more financial leeway for this, and district heating prices would be regulated in a consumer-friendly way.

Many towns have plans for climate-friendly heating. The Greens want to carry out these plans quickly. Towns should get loans more easily for this. Prices for district heating should be fair and clear.

The Greens want to advance more geothermal projects by 2030 to heat buildings in a climate-neutral way. To raise local support, residents would be better protected; at the same time, lithium extraction in the state would be made possible.

The Greens want to use more heat from the ground. It should heat buildings without harming the climate. Residents should be covered if damage occurs. Companies should also be allowed to extract lithium in the state.

The Greens want to make green hydrogen available for industries that are hard to electrify, such as cement and chemicals. New backup power plants would run on hydrogen rather than natural gas and serve as anchor customers for the hydrogen network.

The Greens want to use more green hydrogen. Hydrogen is a gas that stores energy. Industry should use it to work without coal and natural gas. New backup power plants should run on hydrogen.

The Greens want network operators to plan the exit from fossil natural gas and inform customers early. Their reasoning is that grid fees rise as customer numbers fall, hitting lower-income households and small businesses especially hard.

The Greens want to move away from natural gas. Operators of gas networks should plan the exit. They should tell their customers early. Otherwise gas gets very expensive for the last customers.

The Greens stand by the goal of making Baden-Württemberg climate neutral by 2040 and reject any weakening of climate and sector targets. The party commits to the 1.5-degree goal and relies mainly on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Baden-Württemberg should be climate neutral by 2040. That means the state no longer harms the climate. The Greens do not want to loosen climate targets. Bogs and forests should be protected.

The Greens want to oblige the state government by law to present its own measures when a climate target is at risk of being missed by more than ten percent. This would force the government to respond to the findings of the climate expert council.

A council of experts checks the state's climate targets. Sometimes a target is at risk of failing. Then the government would have to present new measures. This is to be written into law.

The Greens want to allow the capture, use and storage of CO2 only where emissions cannot technically be avoided. According to the platform, savings, energy efficiency and decarbonizing industry take priority.

CO2 can be captured and stored. The Greens want to use this only as a last resort. It should apply only to emissions that cannot be avoided. Saving energy matters more.

The Greens want to spend twice as much as before on energy-efficiency renovations of state-owned buildings. This is meant to serve the goal of a climate-neutral state administration by 2030.

The state owns many buildings. The Greens want to rebuild them so they use less energy. There should be twice as much money for this. More solar panels should go on the roofs.

The Greens want to introduce a so-called Klimamilliarde (climate billion), from which cities and counties receive earmarked funds every year for ten years. In addition, climate protection is to become a mandatory task for municipalities.

The Greens want to give cities and counties money for climate protection. The money comes every year for ten years. Climate protection should become a duty for local governments. The state will settle the scope with them.

The Greens want to amend the municipal code so that local governments can borrow more for investments in energy and heat supply. Municipally owned utilities are to be strengthened as part of public services.

Cities and towns should be allowed to borrow more. The money is meant for clean energy and heating. The loans should be cheap. Local public utilities should become stronger.

The Greens want to set new climate-adaptation standards for construction and urban development and to fund greening and the unsealing of paved surfaces. Particularly vulnerable groups such as the elderly, the sick and children are to be protected from heat.

There is more heat and heavy rain. The Greens want to prepare cities for this. There should be more trees and less pavement. Old and sick people should get special protection.

The Greens want to introduce a citizen energy law under which wind farm operators conclude agreements with neighboring municipalities. Citizens are to benefit more financially from renewable expansion, including tenants through plug-in solar units.

The Greens want citizens to earn from clean energy. Wind farm operators should make agreements with nearby towns. A fund helps with citizens' energy projects. Social housing should get small solar units.

The Greens call on the federal government to get the Klimageld (a per-person climate payment) ready and pay it out for the first time in 2027. They also want better protection for people hit hardest by heat and high costs.

The Greens want climate money. This is money the state gives back to people. The federal government should pay it for the first time in 2027. Cities should also protect people better from heat.

The Greens want to expand solar installations along roads and at tunnels. The solar requirement for new parking lots is to be reviewed and possibly extended to smaller lots.

The Greens want more solar panels along roads and tunnels. New large parking lots already must have solar panels today. The Greens want to check this rule. It may soon apply to smaller parking lots too.

The Greens want existing buildings to be made energy-efficient faster. To do so, they want to remove obstacles, give owners reliable support and strengthen local trades. Alongside individual renovations, serial renovation is to be specifically promoted.

The Greens want to renovate old buildings faster. The buildings should then use less energy. Owners should get help with this. Many buildings are built alike. So they should be renovated using the same method.

The Greens want the nuclear power plants close to the border to go offline in the longer term to eliminate the risk of accidents. The German side is to be closely involved in the planned Swiss nuclear waste repository and in reactor safety questions.

There are nuclear power plants near the border. The Greens see them as a danger. The plants should be shut down later. Switzerland is planning a storage site for nuclear waste. Germany should have a say in that.

The Greens want to help make Europe the first climate-neutral continent and to stand up for the Green Deal in Brussels. Hydrogen networks, energy partnerships and alliances with regions active on climate policy are to be expanded.

Europe should become climate-neutral. That means it no longer harms the climate. The Greens want the EU to stick to its climate plan. The state should spend money on hydrogen pipelines. It should work with other regions on climate protection.

The Greens want to preserve the state's nature reserves and the Black Forest National Park. The platform points to the threat facing native wildlife and says there must be places free from human interference.

The Greens want to protect nature in the state. This includes the nature reserves and the Black Forest National Park. Many animals and plants are in danger. Nature needs places where it is left alone.

The Greens want to help companies design products and business models around reuse and recycling. The platform sees this as more than waste management and also justifies it with reduced dependence on raw material imports.

The Greens want people to throw away less. Things should last longer and get repaired. A repair bonus should help with that. Raw materials should be used again.

The Greens want to lower the number of animal experiments and replace them with animal-free methods wherever possible. In the long run, a phase-out of animal testing is to be achieved together with the scientific community.

The Greens want fewer experiments on animals. Researchers should use other methods without animals. The state should give more money for this. One day there should be no more animal testing.

The Greens want to draw up a "Water Supply Strategy 2050" and encourage saving through tiered water pricing. Flood protection and heavy-rain preparedness are also to be strengthened, mainly through nature-based means.

Drinking water should stay safe in the future. The Greens want a plan up to 2050 for this. People who use a lot of water should pay more. Rivers should become more natural again.

The Greens want to increase funding for nature conservation and expand the connected habitat network to 15 percent of the state's area by 2030. Existing species protection programs are to be continued and strengthened.

The Greens want to spend more money on protecting nature. Habitats for animals and plants should be better connected. By 2030 they should cover 15 percent of the state. Programs for endangered species should continue.

The Greens want to create incentives so that peat soils can be farmed without being destroyed. Peatland protection projects are to be carried out faster, including with private money.

Peatlands are wet soils that store a lot of carbon. The Greens want to keep them. Farmers should still be able to work there and earn money. Projects to protect peatlands should move faster.

The Greens want to keep cooperating with grazing livestock keepers on protecting their animals and expand advisory services as widely as possible. Farmers are also to get help against invasive species.

Sheep and other grazing animals need protection from wolves and dogs. The Greens want to give animal keepers more advice. They want to keep working together with them. Farmers should also get help against harmful foreign species.

The Greens want to expand environmental education from daycare to university and make nature accessible to everyone. In addition, the global goal of 30 percent protected areas is to be implemented in the state.

Children and adults should learn more about nature and species. This should happen in daycare, schools and universities. The Greens want more protected areas. Cities should become greener, for example with green schoolyards.

The Greens want to give animal shelters and welfare organizations more financial support and enforce animal welfare law more effectively. Veterinary offices are to get more staff for this.

The Greens want to protect animals better. Animal shelters should get more money. Offices that check on animal welfare should have more staff. Cats that roam outside should be neutered and registered.

The Greens want to phase out the tethering of cattle, whether year-round or seasonal. Housing conditions for farm animals are to be improved overall.

Some cattle stand tied up in the barn. The Greens want to end this step by step. Cattle should have as much room to move as possible. Animals should not go through long transports.

The Greens want to adapt the state hunting and wildlife management law to new findings in wildlife biology, forest conversion and animal welfare. Hunters are to prove their marksmanship in the future.

The Greens want to change the rules for hunting. Hunters should show that they shoot accurately. Wild animals should have safe routes between their areas. There should be a plan against foreign animal species.

The Greens want to continue converting forests into species-rich mixed forests and leave ten percent of the state-owned forest to itself. Private forest owners are to receive advice and funding.

Heat and drought harm the forests. The Greens want forests with many kinds of trees. One tenth of the state's forest should stay untouched. Private forest owners should get help.

The Greens stand by the goal of no additional net land consumption and want to reach it as soon as possible. Development inside existing settlements takes priority: vacant buildings, brownfields and ready-to-build plots should be used before new construction on the outskirts.

The Greens want no more new land to be built over. First, empty buildings and unused plots in town should be used. Only then should building happen at the edge of town. This protects nature and farmland.

By 2030, pesticide use in the state is to fall by 40 to 50 percent. At the same time, organic farming is to grow to 30 to 40 percent.

The Greens want fewer pesticides. Pesticides are poisons against pests and weeds. By 2030 almost half should be gone. There should be much more organic farming.

The Greens want EU farm funds to follow the principle of public money only for public goods. Income-supporting payments are to be tied to farms' environmental services in the future.

Farmers get money from the EU. The Greens want to share out this money differently. Those who do something for the environment should get more. Small farms should get special support.

The Greens want to support young farmers with a start-up bonus and advice in order to secure farm succession. The results of the state's Strategiedialog Landwirtschaft (strategy dialogue on agriculture) are also to be implemented.

Many farms cannot find someone to take over. The Greens want to help young farmers start out with money. They should also get good advice. Farmers should find it easier to get land.

The Greens want nature, climate and animal protection to pay off more for farms financially. Agri-environmental measures are to contribute to income and can first be tested in a trial year.

Farmers should be able to earn money by protecting the environment and animals. The Greens want to support such farms more. Farmers should be allowed to try out measures for one year. Then they decide whether to continue.

The Greens want to protect GMO-free farming and food production and thereby secure freedom of choice for consumers and farmers. The state's quality labels are to stay GMO-free.

The Greens want to protect farming without genetic engineering. People should be able to choose what they eat. Food should clearly show what is in it. The state's quality labels stay free of genetic engineering.

The Greens want state cafeterias to offer 70 percent regional food by 2040 and to expand plant-based options. The state's nutrition strategy is to be developed further.

State cafeterias should serve more food from the region. By 2040 it should be 70 percent. There should also be more plant-based food. Children should learn more about healthy eating in daycare and school.

The Greens want to preserve traditional orchard meadows together with municipalities and create model regions and a fund for this. Organic farming and wine-growing landscapes are also to be strengthened.

Orchard meadows are meadows with many fruit trees. The Greens want to keep them. There should be special money for this. Organic farms and wine growers should also get help.

The Greens want to modernize rail lines, bridges, roads and grids more quickly. A new state task force would ensure that planning, permitting and construction take no more than half as long as they do now.

Bridges, roads and rail lines should be renewed faster. The Greens want a new task force in the state for this. Planning and permits should take only half as long. Broken bridges should be replaced especially fast.

The Greens want to use the Bundesrat to ensure gas stations may raise their prices only once a day. At EV charging stations, prices are to be displayed openly and card payment made possible.

Gas prices change many times a day. The Greens want gas stations to raise prices only once a day. At charging stations for electric cars, the price should be easy to see. People should be able to pay by card there.

The Greens want to expand public transit in line with the state's ÖPNV-Strategie 2030 (public transit strategy), especially in rural areas, and keep fares affordable. Mobility is to be reliable, accessible and climate-friendly everywhere.

The Greens want more buses and trains. This is especially true for villages and small towns. Tickets should stay affordable. Footpaths and bike paths should be safe and free of barriers.

The Greens want to give priority to maintaining and modernizing existing bridges and roads over new construction or widening. New road projects are to be ranked by transparent criteria including a climate check.

The Greens want to fix old roads and bridges first. New roads come only after that. For new roads, there should be a check on how they harm the climate. Broken bridges should be renewed quickly.

The Greens want to keep reducing noise and air pollutants from traffic and justify this with health protection. Aircraft noise, especially from Zurich Airport, is also to decrease.

Noise and dirty air make people sick. The Greens want to keep lowering both. Nobody should suffer from harmful traffic noise. Noise from airplanes should also go down.

The Greens want to help the state's regional transit associations become leaner and more efficient. Fares and technical systems are to be simplified and made uniform statewide. Low-cost offers such as the youth ticket are to stay.

The state has many transit associations. These are groups of bus and train companies. The Greens want them to work in a simpler way. Ticket prices should follow the same rules everywhere. Cheap tickets for young people should stay.

The Greens want to double public transit ridership by 2030 compared with 2011. To get there, the rail network and train fleet are to be modernized and local transit made more reliable. A "future timetable 2040" is meant to deliver frequent service.

The Greens want more people to use buses and trains. By 2030 there should be twice as many riders as in 2011. There should be new trains. Buses and trains should be more on time. They should also run more often.

The Greens call Stuttgart 21 a costly mistake but accept the result of the referendum. They want to make the rail hub more capable through additional construction and give the Gäubahn line a permanent direct link to the main station.

Stuttgart is getting a new underground train station. The Greens think the project costs too much. But they want to make it better. The old tracks should stay until the new station works well. Trains from the south should go straight to the main station.

The Greens want to bring as many disused rail lines as possible back into service. Where there are no tracks, the Regiobus network is to grow together with municipalities so that places without a connection get hourly service.

Some rail lines have been closed for years. The Greens want to use many of them again. More Regiobus lines should run too. These are fast buses to the nearest train station. They should run every hour, from early to late.

The Greens want to expand the Mobilitätspass (mobility pass) and support its local rollout. It lets cities and counties charge a levy whose revenue goes into more bus and train service and cheaper fares.

Cities and counties may charge a fee for buses and trains. This is called the Mobilitätspass. The money pays for better local transit. The Greens want more places to use it. Each place should be able to pick a fitting version.

The Greens want to expand regional rail across the state together with municipalities. Single-track lines are to be electrified and upgraded, and new connections created. The party wants to hold the federal government to its share of the funding.

The Greens want more train service in rural areas. Old lines should get electric wires. There should be new links, also to France. Where wires cost too much, battery trains should run. The federal government should help pay.

The Greens want to deliver a mobility guarantee by 2030: at least one service every 30 minutes in rural areas and every 15 minutes in urban areas. The state would give financial support to the responsible transit authorities for running this minimum service.

The Greens want a guarantee for buses and trains. In rural areas, something should run every 30 minutes. In big cities, every 15 minutes. The state gives money for this. Volunteer-run buses should also get more help.

The Greens want to make Baden-Württemberg the leading large German state for autonomous driving in public transit. Self-driving on-demand shuttles are to link places that have neither rail nor regular bus service.

The Greens want to use small buses without drivers. People can call them when needed. They should link places without trains or buses. This also helps when drivers are missing. The technology should come from Baden-Württemberg.

The Greens want scheduled and commuter boat service on Lake Constance to become part of public transit. It should be usable with a uniform fare and run more often.

Boats run on regular routes on Lake Constance. The Greens want them to count as public transit. Then a ticket like the Deutschlandticket works there. It may cost a little extra. The boats should run more often.

The Greens want to fund mobility hubs that bring together buses, trains, sharing services and charging points. Digital information services and open data are meant to make switching between modes of transport easier.

The Greens want places where changing is easy. There you find buses, trains, rental bikes and chargers. Apps should show what is free right now. For example parking spots or shared cars. The state collects data for this.

The Greens want to support municipalities in turning town centers into traffic-calmed, greener spaces. Car traffic is to slow down, parking areas are to be unsealed, and parking is to be priced to cover its costs.

The Greens want calmer town centers. Cars should drive more slowly there. Parking lots should become green spaces. Parking should cost what it costs the town. There should be more room to walk, sit and play.

The Greens stick to "Vision Zero," the goal of no more traffic deaths. They want to get there through lower speeds, safe crossings, school streets and more decision-making leeway for municipalities.

The Greens want no one to die in traffic. Cars should drive more slowly. There should be safe crossings. Streets near schools should be free of cars. Towns should be able to set speed limits more easily.

The Greens want to complete a roughly 8,000-kilometer bike network and at least 20 cycle highways by 2030. Cyclists are to get their own paths wherever possible, and fast S-pedelecs are to be allowed on more routes.

The Greens want more and better bike paths. By 2030 a network of 8,000 kilometers should be done. There should also be 20 fast bike routes for commuters. Roads outside towns should get separate bike paths. Fast e-bikes should be allowed there too.

The Greens want to keep expanding the charging network for electric vehicles, including trucks. The state is to become a hub for climate-neutral, digital vehicles and thereby secure jobs in the auto industry.

The Greens want more chargers for electric cars. Electric trucks should be able to charge fast too. The power grid should be strong enough for this. The state should build the best clean cars. This should keep jobs safe.

The Greens want more freight moved by rail and inland ship. To that end they call for upgraded rail infrastructure, rapid expansion of the Rhine Valley Railway, more transfer terminals and modernized locks on the Neckar.

The Greens want more goods moved by train and ship. Trucks would then drive only the short distances. This needs better tracks. The rail line in the Rhine Valley should be expanded fast. The locks on the Neckar river should also be modernized.

The Greens want to rebuild rail lines to France, strengthen local transit with Switzerland and make tickets valid across the border. This is meant to promote climate-neutral mobility and the shared economic area on the Upper Rhine.

The Greens want more trains across the border. Old rail lines to France should run again. The Deutschlandticket should be valid as far as Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse. Young people should get cheap tickets for trips to the neighboring country.

The Greens demand that European rules apply on the internet to tech companies from the United States and China as well. Children should learn to use social media step by step and should not be left on their own.

The Greens want firm rules for the internet. Big companies from the US and China should also follow Europe's rules. Children should learn how to use social media well. This should happen step by step, like learning to swim.

The Greens want to make Baden-Württemberg Europe's leading location for artificial intelligence and pool the strengths of the AI centers Cyber Valley and IPAI. AI is to reach the entire Mittelstand (small and mid-sized firms), and quantum technology is to be expanded further.

The Greens want the state to be strong in artificial intelligence. The short form is AI. Small and mid-sized companies should be able to use AI too. Young AI companies should get money more easily. Quantum technology should also get support.

The Greens want to make all government services available through a single digital platform and introduce the once-only principle, under which citizens have to provide information just one time. Non-digital access is to remain for people who need help.

The Greens want one app for all government offices. People should be able to do everything online there. They should only have to give their data once. People who do not use the internet can still go to an office.

The Greens want to concentrate political responsibility for digitalization and modernizing the state in one place, either with a minister in the Staatsministerium (state chancellery) or in a separate digital ministry. This is meant to let the state act reliably and speak with one voice in the federal system.

Today many offices are in charge of digital matters. The Greens want one central office for this. It could be a separate digital ministry. Then it is clear who is responsible.

The Greens want to make public administration less dependent on technology corporations outside Europe and rely more on open-source software. At the same time, protection of digital government against cyberattacks is to be expanded further.

The Greens want government offices to depend less on big companies outside Europe. Offices should use more open software. People's data should be safe. Protection against attacks from the internet should grow.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries and media centers across the state and establish them as the backbone of digital education infrastructure. Schools' digital equipment is to be expanded through the federal Digitalpakt 2.0 and state funds.

The Greens want stronger media centers and libraries. Media centers help schools with technology. Schools should get good Wi-Fi and modern devices. Money comes from the federal government and the state. More IT experts should work at schools.

The Greens want to promote media literacy for all age groups so people can spot manipulated content and scams. Age limits for social networks are to be effectively enforced together with other states, and digital content is to be technically labeled.

Everyone should learn to use media well. People should spot fake pictures and fraud. Social networks have age limits. These limits should really apply. Pictures and videos should get a label.

The Greens want people to be able to move around anywhere in the state at any time without fear. Cem Özdemir announces tough measures if necessary and relies on the rule of law and community-oriented policing.

The Greens want more safety in the state. Everyone should be able to move around without fear. This applies by day and by night. Cem Özdemir wants to act firmly if needed. The police should be close to the people.

The Greens want to better protect critical infrastructure against sabotage, espionage and digital attacks and remove untrustworthy components from it. Security agencies are also to keep watch on Islamist radicalization without placing Muslims under general suspicion.

Power, water and networks should be better protected. Unsafe technology should be removed there. Authorities should also watch Islamists. Muslims in general should not be treated as suspects.

The Greens want additional staff in the police and justice system and specialized prosecutors' offices to fight organized crime more effectively. Financial investigations into drug crime, serious tax fraud and money laundering are to be stepped up.

The Greens want more staff for police and courts. Special prosecutors should deal with crime gangs. Investigators should follow criminals' money more closely. Experts in computers and finance should help.

The Greens want to respond to rising youth crime mainly with prevention, youth welfare services and early intervention. They reject lowering the age of criminal responsibility and consider closed imprisonment unsuitable for young people.

More young people are committing crimes. The Greens mainly want to prevent this. Education should matter more than punishment. Children under 14 should still not be punished by courts.

The Greens want to keep investing in police staffing, structure and equipment and relieve officers of office work. The police allowance is to rise to at least 228 euros a month, and the two-tier career structure is to be fully introduced.

The police should get more staff and good equipment. Officers should have less office work. They should get a higher allowance: at least 228 euros a month. Moving up in the job should become easier.

The Greens want police misconduct to be fully investigated. The independent citizens' and police commissioner is to get more powers, and the police are to be committed to a values-based culture.

Police mistakes should be cleared up. There is an independent commissioner for this. That person should get more rights, such as reading files. The police should be as diverse as the state.

The Greens want security agencies to become less dependent on non-European IT providers. By 2030 at the latest, a research and analysis platform from European companies is to be available for the agencies to switch to.

Police and other security agencies use software to analyze data. In the future this software should come from Europe. Such a program should be ready by 2030. Companies from Baden-Württemberg should help.

The Greens want to end the Freiwilliger Polizeidienst (volunteer police service) in Baden-Württemberg. The platform calls the model outdated because police work has become more demanding and complex.

In the volunteer police service, citizens help the police. The Greens want to end this service. They say police work is very hard today. It needs fully trained officers.

The Greens want a prison system that prevents reoffending and prepares inmates for a life without crime. To that end, alternatives to imprisonment and open forms of custody are to be strengthened.

The Greens want to change the prison system. Prisoners should learn to live without crime. Some people should get house arrest instead of prison. An electronic device watches them. Prisons should also have enough staff.

The Greens want to keep taking weapons away from extremists. At the federal level, they want a stricter weapons law so that enemies of the constitution never receive a permit in the first place.

Extremists should not have weapons. The Greens want to keep taking their weapons away. The German weapons law should become stricter. Enemies of the constitution should not get a weapons permit.

The Greens want to expand protection of the civilian population, citing the changed security situation. Shelters and critical infrastructure are to be modernized, responsibilities pooled and volunteers given better standing.

The Greens want to protect people better from disasters. Shelters should be modernized. A new authority should plan for crises and handle them. Volunteer helpers should get equal rights. They should also get discounts.

The Greens want to preserve places where people meet, such as town centers, village pubs, clubs and volunteer fire departments. In the platform's view, democracy needs exchange and debate among people with different opinions.

The Greens want to keep meeting places in the state. These include town centers, village pubs and sports clubs. People with different opinions meet there. The party says this is important for democracy.

The Greens want to make public administration simpler, more digital and faster, and to place responsibility for this with the state premier. Local authorities are to get more discretion, while paperwork and inspections are to be reduced.

The Greens want government offices to be faster and simpler. The head of government should take care of this himself. There should be one login for all online services. Citizens and companies should need fewer documents. Offices should only do spot checks.

The Greens want to keep removing unnecessary rules, simplifying procedures and clarifying responsibilities. Rules that ensure fair procedures and protect health and the climate are to remain.

The Greens want fewer unnecessary rules. Procedures in government offices should become simpler. Rules for health and climate should stay. Associations and towns should have a say.

The Greens want to make the state a more attractive employer with a staffing strategy for 2040. According to the platform, the background is demographic change, which means fewer employees have to shoulder more tasks.

The state needs good workers in its offices. The Greens want to make these jobs more attractive. Working hours should become more flexible. People from other jobs should be able to join too.

The Greens want to set up a parliamentary commission of inquiry on volunteering to find ways of better combining civic engagement with work and family. The Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card) is to continue and be extended to more fields and offers.

Many people volunteer in clubs. The Greens want to make this easier. A commission in the state parliament is to collect ideas. The volunteer card will stay and offer more benefits.

The Greens want to keep funding the contact point for threatened officeholders at the State Office of Criminal Investigation. Digital municipal council meetings are to be expanded so that more people can get involved in local politics.

Some local politicians are threatened. An office at the police helps them day and night. The Greens want to keep paying for this office. Local councils should be able to meet online more often.

The Greens want to create a statewide body that gives young people a binding role in political decisions. Youth associations and mobile and open child and youth work are to be strengthened.

Young people should have a say in politics. The Greens want a new youth body for the whole state. It is a fixed group that gives advice. Youth centers and youth groups should also get more support.

The Greens want to continue their "policy of being heard" and make local and statewide citizens' initiatives more flexible. Referendums are also to be possible at county level. Mayors would no longer be allowed to sit on county councils.

People should have more say. Citizens' votes should become easier. Counties should also hold such votes. Mayors should no longer sit on county councils.

The Greens want to develop the state freedom of information act into a transparency law. A state transparency portal is meant to ease the load on administrations and strengthen public trust in government.

Public offices should show more openly what they do. A new law should make this happen. The state should build a website for public information. This should help people trust the state.

The Greens call right-wing extremism the greatest danger to democracy. They want to disarm the scene, break up its structures and advocate proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court to ban the AfD.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger to democracy. Right-wing extremists should have no weapons. Their groups should be broken up. A court should check whether the AfD gets banned.

The Greens want the justice and interior ministries to no longer be able to issue instructions in individual investigations. This is meant to guarantee independent investigations and shield the justice system from influence.

Today ministries can give orders in single investigations. The Greens want to end that. Investigators should work independently. The justice system should be free from political pressure.

The Greens want to give courts and public prosecutors more staff, better technology and better organization. Proceedings are to become faster and workloads lower. Legal training and the law on pardons are also to be reformed.

The Greens want more staff for courts and prosecutors. The technology should get better too. This should make court cases faster. Young lawyers in the justice system should earn more at the start. There should be fixed rules for pardons.

The Greens want a routine inquiry with the domestic intelligence agency before anyone is hired by the police, the judiciary or the state parliament, even without specific suspicion. This is meant to keep enemies of the constitution out of these areas. The state intelligence agency is to be strengthened and also more closely overseen.

People who want to work for the police, the courts or the state parliament should be checked. The intelligence agency looks at whether the person respects the constitution. This should happen for all applicants. The agency should become stronger. A new office should also watch over it.

The Greens want to fund civil-society engagement for democracy reliably and create a dedicated state law for it. People who are engaged are also to be better protected against threats.

Many clubs and groups work for democracy. The Greens want to give them reliable funding. A new state law should make this possible. Engaged people should also be better protected from threats.

The Greens want to reduce the border checks ordered by the federal government to the level provided for under the Schengen rules. In the platform's view, the checks make daily life harder in the regions bordering France and Switzerland.

There are more checks at the borders again. The Greens say this disrupts daily life there. Many people work or meet friends in the neighboring country. The checks should be reduced again. Working in the neighboring country should also get easier.

The Greens commit to supporting Ukraine and want to build a new economic and regional cooperation with partners. They back EU membership for Ukraine, the Western Balkan states and the Republic of Moldova.

The Greens stand with Ukraine. They want to help rebuild destroyed areas. Ukraine should be able to join the EU later. Countries in the Western Balkans and Moldova should join the EU too.

The Greens want the EU to use its rule-of-law instruments more consistently and tie funding to compliance. European democracy is to be developed further and civil society strengthened across borders.

All EU countries should respect the rule of law. Only then should they get money from the EU. The Greens want to strengthen democracy in Europe. People should also learn more about Europe.

The Greens oppose having nation-states rather than regions decide on regional EU funding in the future. In their view, the regions know best where the money is put to good use.

The EU gives money to regions. So far, regions help decide how to use it. A new plan wants to change that. Then the countries would decide. The Greens want regions to keep their say.

The Greens want to set up a new innovation campus for security and defense with a focus on aerospace. The platform argues that space-based infrastructure is essential for a secure and sovereign Europe.

The Greens want to build a new research site. It will work on security and defense. The main focus is on air and space travel. The party says Europe needs its own technology in space.

The Greens want to continue the state's development policy and give civil society within it firmer financial and structural footing. Public procurement is to follow environmental, social and human rights standards, and the partnership with Burundi is to grow.

The state should keep helping poorer countries. Clubs and groups that take part should get more security and money. Public offices should buy fairly made goods. Young people from Baden-Württemberg and Burundi should meet more often.

The Greens want to set up an emergency fund for arts and culture and preserve cultural buildings through a renovation drive. The state is to remain a reliable partner for cultural institutions and municipalities even when budgets are tight.

The Greens want an emergency fund for arts and culture. It gives money to cultural venues in hard times. Old cultural buildings are to be repaired. The state should help towns and cities with this.

The Greens want to improve conditions for clubs, live music and pop culture through less red tape, planning certainty and protection for existing cultural venues. The POPLÄND funding program is to be expanded, and small venues are to be supported by a fund fed by a ticket levy on large events.

The Greens want to protect clubs and live music venues. There should be less paperwork for them. The POPLÄND funding program is to grow. Small stages are to get money from a new fund.

The Greens want to award a yearly prize to owner-run bookstores. It is meant to honor shops with a strong cultural commitment, since the platform sees them under pressure from online retail and rising costs.

The Greens want a new prize for bookstores. It is given every year. It goes to shops with good ideas and many events. This is meant to draw more attention to small bookstores.

The Greens want to give clubs and associations more relief from GEMA costs and administrative burdens so that festivals and events become easier to hold. At the federal level they are pushing to exempt associations from GEMA fees and from sales tax.

Clubs pay fees to GEMA when they play music. The Greens want to ease this burden. Clubs should also have less paperwork. This makes festivals easier to hold.

The Greens want young people, whatever their educational path, to be able to visit theaters, movie theaters, museums and concerts easily. Free admission for children and teenagers to the permanent collections of the state museums is to continue.

Young people should be able to go to theaters, movies, museums and concerts easily. This should apply to students and apprentices alike. Children and teenagers will still get into state museums for free.

The Greens want to return unlawfully acquired cultural objects to their rightful owners or countries of origin and to keep researching where museum objects came from. Remembrance culture is to become more visible across the state.

Some museum objects were acquired unjustly. The Greens want to give these objects back. Museums should check where their objects come from. Remembering history should also become more visible.

The Greens want to create a digital infrastructure for culture that links museum data and makes it usable. It is also meant to provide room for AI applications tailored to the cultural sector.

The Greens want to build a digital network for culture. It connects data from museums. AI tools for culture are to be developed there too. Everyone should be able to use it easily.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries as open places for education and community and connect them through a statewide digital platform. The funding program for libraries in rural areas is to be kept.

Libraries are meeting places for everyone. The Greens want to strengthen them. A digital platform is to connect all libraries in the state. Rural libraries will keep getting funding.

The Greens want to strengthen regional journalism and turn the existing subsidy for television broadcasters into general journalism funding. They argue that democracy needs an informed public and independent media.

The Greens want to support local news. Today the state gives money for television. In the future the money should be for journalism in general. The party says democracy needs good news reporting.

The Greens want to fund the Verbraucherzentrale (consumer advice center) well, strengthen class actions and improve digital consumer protection. This includes a Bundesrat initiative that would also regulate online marketplaces such as Temu or Shein more strictly.

The Greens want to protect shoppers better. The consumer advice center should get enough money. It helps people who have problems with companies. Online sellers like Temu or Shein should face stricter rules.

The Greens want to modernize gyms, pools and sports fields through a state program and extend the Solidarpakt Sport (the state's funding agreement with organized sports). The allowance for volunteer coaches is to rise again in the next legislative term.

The Greens want to renew gyms, swimming pools and sports fields. Sports clubs will keep getting money from the state. Volunteer coaches should get more money. Children should be able to learn to swim.

The Greens want to make physical activity part of the school day and link all-day schools more closely with sports clubs. Major sporting events are to be tied to sustainability standards, and sports should be open to all groups.

Children should be active every day. Schools should work with sports clubs. Big sports events should protect the environment. Everyone should be able to do sports.