Grüne: program for the 2026 Berlin state election

The Greens want a hotel development plan that defines where new hotels and hostels may still be built in Berlin. Tourism is to be spread more evenly across the city so that individual places are not overloaded. Heavily visited neighborhoods are to get relief.

The Greens want a plan for hotels. The plan says where new hotels are allowed and where not. Tourists should spread out better across the whole city. Crowded neighborhoods should get help.

The Greens want to revive the "Ökologischer Tourismus" (ecological tourism) fund to support investments by hotels, restaurants and other providers. Short-term rentals to tourists are to be monitored more strictly so they do not worsen the housing shortage.

The Greens want tourism that is good for the environment. Hotels and restaurants get money if they save energy. Vacation apartments should be checked more strictly. This should keep homes for people in Berlin.

The Greens want to introduce a regional welfare index that makes progress and people's well-being measurable. It is meant to serve as the basis for Berlin's economic policy. According to the program, growth alone does not secure the city's future.

The Greens want a new measure for Berlin. It should show how well people are doing. Economic policy should follow this measure. The party says growth alone is not enough.

The Greens want to simplify permits and administrative procedures and remove more rules than they add. Standards are not to be lowered; the program explicitly sets itself apart from deregulation. Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are to be relieved.

The Greens want less paperwork. Offices should decide faster. More rules should go than new ones come. But important protection rules should stay. This helps small companies most of all.

The Greens want to reduce and digitize many documentation and reporting requirements for businesses. Standards, sustainability and fair competition are not to suffer. At the same time, close inspections and tough penalties are meant to target rule breakers.

Companies have to write many reports today. The Greens want to reduce these duties. Many reports should be possible online. People who break the rules should face tough penalties.

The Greens want to invest heavily in public infrastructure and link this to making state-owned companies climate neutral. The party sees this as an opportunity for Berlin's economy, especially for skilled trades and mid-sized firms. The funding programs of Investitionsbank Berlin (the state development bank) are to be aligned with climate goals.

The Greens want to invest a lot of money in Berlin. The money should go to energy, transport and schools, for example. Companies owned by the state should become climate neutral. That means they no longer emit harmful gases. Skilled trades firms should also get work from this.

The Greens want to promote self-employment and ease the burden on small and mid-sized businesses and solo self-employed people in particular. Self-employed people and freelancers are to get better social protection. More affordable work and production spaces are to be created for creative workers.

Many people in Berlin work for themselves. But their number is going down. The Greens want to ease the load on them and on small companies. Self-employed people should be better protected, for example when sick or old. Artists should get more affordable rooms to work in.

The Greens want a state law that allows real-world laboratories, experimentation clauses and faster procedures. New technologies and business models could then be tested under real conditions. Protective standards are to remain untouched.

The Greens want a new law for Berlin. It should make it easier to test new ideas and technology. Companies should be able to try new things faster in everyday life. Protection for workers and the environment should stay the same.

The Greens want to reform procurement law so that more small, young and Berlin-based companies win public contracts. Social and environmental standards are to be kept and enforced. Sustainability and fair work are to be binding foundations of contract awards.

The state of Berlin gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want to make the rules for this simpler. Small and young companies from Berlin should win contracts more easily. Rules on fair pay and the environment should stay.

The Greens want to strengthen Berlin's Zukunftsorte (designated innovation sites) and turn them into model regions for climate-neutral business. The conversion of the former airport building in Tegel into the Urban Tech Republic is to happen as fast as possible. Conventional commercial areas are also to become more sustainable.

Berlin has special places for research and companies. They are called Zukunftsorte. The Greens want to strengthen these places. They should show how business can work without harming the climate. The old Tegel airport should be converted quickly.

The Greens see a sustainable world's fair in Berlin in 2035 as an opportunity but attach conditions. The Expo must demonstrably advance the city's climate-friendly and socially just development. All funds are to benefit the city in the long run.

Some people want a world's fair in Berlin in 2035. The Greens support this under conditions. The Expo must help Berlin with climate protection and building. The money should still help people in Berlin afterward.

The Greens want to appoint a state start-up commissioner and examine setting up a state-owned innovation agency. Research results are to turn into new companies and business applications faster. Successful start-ups are to grow in Berlin instead of moving away.

The Greens want one person to look after young companies. This person should help government offices work together better. Research should lead to new companies more often. The Greens are also looking at a state agency for innovation. Young companies should stay and grow in Berlin.

The Greens want to strengthen social, solidarity-based and public-benefit enterprises with a master plan. A dedicated funding tool modeled on Hamburg and Bremen is also planned. The party sees these enterprises as drivers of change and innovation.

Some companies mainly want to help society. The Greens want to strengthen these companies. There should be a plan for this. A special funding program is also planned. Hamburg and Bremen are the models for it.

The Greens want to create affordable state-owned commercial space and give commercial tenants more protection. At the federal level, the party advocates a rent cap, a rent index and protection against eviction for businesses. In Berlin, Milieuschutz (neighborhood preservation rules) is to cover commercial tenants too.

Many businesses can hardly find affordable space. The Greens want to create low-cost commercial space owned by the state. Rents for businesses should be limited. Businesses should be better protected from losing their lease. Delivery vans should get more loading zones.

The Greens want to develop shopping centers so that they host cultural, educational and health services and government offices alongside stores. This is meant to prevent vacancies and keep neighborhood centers lively. The party also calls for fair competition with international online retail.

Many stores in Berlin are struggling. The Greens want to change shopping centers. They should also offer culture, education and doctors. This way fewer spaces would stand empty. Online sellers from abroad should be checked more closely.

The Greens want to push Berlin's industry toward climate neutrality and a circular economy. To do this, science, companies and start-ups are to work together more closely, backed by expanded state business development support.

The Greens want to change industry in Berlin. It should no longer harm the climate. Materials should be used again. Research and companies should work together more closely. The state should support this more.

The Greens want results from Berlin's research to flow more strongly into innovation and new companies. Berlin is to grow as a location for start-ups. The Charité university hospital is to be strengthened so that research findings reach patients faster.

A lot of research happens in Berlin. The Greens want more new companies to come out of it. Berlin should be a good place for young companies. The Charité hospital should get stronger. New findings should help sick people faster.

The Greens want to build up the innovative strength of Berlin's economy and make the city the number one location for innovation. To do this, they plan to strengthen the Zukunftsorte (designated innovation hubs) and further develop projects that link research and start-ups.

The Greens want many new ideas to come from Berlin. Berlin should become the best place for this. They want to strengthen the Zukunftsorte. These are places where research and companies work together. Projects for young companies should also get more support.

The Greens want to digitize the social, youth and housing offices so that support reaches people faster and more easily. Benefits are to be handled in one place and approved through a single application. The platform also calls for a commission on old-age poverty and more debt counseling.

The Greens want to make welfare offices digital. People should get help with just one application. They should hand in their papers only once. There should also be more advice for people with debts.

The Greens want to tackle street homelessness with an action plan and expand the “Housing First” program. Cold-weather shelter is to be secured year-round and around the clock. In the platform's view, homelessness reflects social hardship rather than personal failure.

The Greens want to help homeless people more. They should be able to get their own home without conditions. This is called “Housing First.” Emergency shelters should be open all year. Medical help should also get better.

The Greens want to create open, noncommercial places for meeting, advice and support in neighborhoods. An Altenhilfestrukturgesetz (elder services structure act) is to bring together services for older people and secure their funding. The platform sees a strong social environment as the best prevention against poverty and loneliness.

The Greens want more meeting places in neighborhoods. People can get advice and help there. A new law should secure services for older people. There should also be a plan against loneliness.

The Greens want to draw up a skilled-worker strategy for Berlin that brings more women and more people with a migration or refugee background into work. Foreign vocational qualifications are to be recognized more easily, and the Willkommenszentrum (welcome center) is to offer more advice.

Berlin does not have enough skilled workers. The Greens want to make a plan for this. More women and more immigrants should find good jobs. Qualifications from abroad should count more easily. There should be one central place for advice.

The Greens want to raise Berlin's state minimum wage to at least 16.50 euros and introduce a pay cap at state-owned companies of ten times that minimum wage. As an employer and contracting authority, the state is to ensure adherence to collective agreements and a fairer distribution of wages.

The minimum wage of the state of Berlin should rise to at least 16.50 euros. In companies owned by the state there should be a top wage. No one there should earn more than ten times the minimum wage. Outsourced companies should return to the parent company. Collective wage agreements should apply there.

The Greens want to create a chamber of labor in Berlin that gives all employees a statutory body to represent their interests. It is to act alongside the unions toward companies and policymakers and advise workers, especially those in the low-wage sector.

The Greens want to found a chamber for employees. A chamber is a body of representation set down in law. It speaks for all employees in Berlin. It also gives advice to employees. This should help people with low wages most of all.

The Greens want permanent tasks at universities, music schools, Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and memorial sites to be done by regular employees rather than freelancers. According to the platform, this draws the consequences from the Herrenberg ruling on bogus self-employment.

Many teachers work for the state of Berlin without a permanent job. The Greens want to change that. Anyone who works there long-term should get a permanent job. This applies to music schools, adult education centers, universities and memorial sites. There should be model contracts for other self-employed people.

The Greens want to improve working conditions for platform workers such as delivery couriers, which the platform describes as catastrophic in part. Plans include multilingual advice on labor law, support for self-organization and a push at the federal level for a direct-hire requirement in the sector.

Many people work for delivery services and other platforms. Their work is often poorly protected. The Greens want to offer advice in several languages. Companies should have to hire these people directly. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level. Workers should find shelter when it is hot.

The Greens want to prepare workers for the changes brought by artificial intelligence through initial and continuing training. Recognition of courses for Bildungszeit (paid educational leave) is to be simplified as well. According to the platform, no one should be left behind by technological change.

Artificial intelligence is changing many jobs. The Greens want to offer more training for workers. Companies and unions should take part. Courses for educational leave should be approved more easily. Educational leave is time off work for learning.

The Greens want more inspections at workplaces and closer cooperation among authorities against labor exploitation and human trafficking. Victims are to be protected and not treated as illegal workers. Support should be available even if someone does not want to testify in criminal proceedings.

Some people are exploited at work. The Greens want more inspections to stop this. Authorities should work together better. Victims should get protection and help. They should not have to fear deportation.

The Greens want to implement the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights in Berlin on a binding basis. These include equal opportunity, fewer barriers, access to social benefits and social housing, and shelter for homeless people.

The EU has written down principles for social rights. The Greens want Berlin to follow them firmly. Everyone should have equal chances. Homeless people should get a place to stay.

The Greens want people with disabilities to receive advice and support bundled in one place. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities serves as the guide, and advisory councils and the disability parliament are to carry more weight.

People with disabilities should get help faster and in one place. The districts should make firm plans for inclusion. Inclusion means everyone can take part everywhere. The disability ID card should be easier and faster to get. People with disabilities should have more say in politics.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be paid appropriately and to enter regular work and training more often. In the party's view, separate systems such as sheltered workshops often stand in the way of inclusion.

People with disabilities should get fair pay. This applies to regular companies and to sheltered workshops. There should be more companies where everyone works together. A state program should make training possible for everyone.

The Greens want to keep people from living in isolation in old age because of poverty or a lack of support. To that end, social benefits would become easier to access and meeting places would be created in every district. According to the platform, one third of Berlin's seniors are affected by old-age poverty.

Many older people in Berlin are poor or lonely. The Greens want to change that. There should be more social counseling in every part of the city. Older people should get state support more easily. Every district should have meeting places for young and old.

The Greens want to introduce a hardship rule for the property tax (Grundsteuer). It is meant to shield small businesses, clubs, and social and cultural venues, among others, from steep tax increases. The goal is to preserve the mixed character of Berlin's neighborhoods.

Property tax is a tax on land and buildings. For some, it has gone up a lot. The Greens want a special rule for hard cases. It should protect small shops, clubs and cultural places. This should keep neighborhoods mixed and lively.

The Greens want to raise the real estate transfer tax to Brandenburg's level and scale it by social criteria. People buying a home to live in would pay less, large companies more. At the federal level, tax loopholes for share deals and in inheritance tax would be closed.

People who buy a house or land pay a tax. The Greens want to raise this tax. People who want to live in the home should pay less. Big companies should pay more. Tax tricks when buying whole companies should end too.

The Greens want to act against owners who do not use building land for housing. To do so, they plan to introduce Grundsteuer C, a higher tax on undeveloped land that is ready for construction, along with strict building obligations.

Some owners leave building land empty. The Greens want to change that. Empty building land should get its own tax. It is called Grundsteuer C. There should also be a duty to build.

The Greens want to put considerably more public money into climate neutrality and infrastructure repair, using all permitted borrowing room. At the federal level they want the debt brake in its present form to be dropped, because in the party's view it blocks investment in the future.

The Greens want to invest more money in Berlin. The money should go to climate protection and to repairing buildings and facilities. Berlin should borrow as much as the rules allow. The debt brake limits new government debt. The Greens want to end it in its current form.

The Greens want to modernize grant law, meaning the rules under which the state funds civil society projects. Multi-year commitments and simpler accounting are meant to give providers and their staff more security.

Berlin gives money to social groups and projects. The Greens want to make the rules for this simpler. Projects should be able to get money for several years. Applications should be handled digitally. Then staff know earlier what comes next.

The Greens want to steer the state budget more by what spending achieves, especially for climate protection and gender equality. Budget data is also to be presented in a way the public can understand.

The Greens want to check what the state's money achieves. They look especially at climate and equality. Everyone should easily see what Berlin spends money on. Citizens should have a say on budgets in the districts.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a wealth tax on the very rich and to remove inheritance tax exemptions for especially large fortunes. The revenue goes to the states and is meant to let Berlin reliably support people in need.

Very rich people should again pay a tax on their wealth. Very large inheritances should no longer get exceptions. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level. The states get the money. Berlin should use it to help people in need.

The Greens want to improve the state's revenue with a tax on single-use packaging, adjusted parking fees, and a real estate transfer tax at Brandenburg's level. The transfer tax is also to be graduated on social grounds.

Berlin should take in more money. The Greens want a tax on single-use packaging. This should also cut trash in parks. Parking should cost differently than today. Large companies should pay more tax when they buy property.

The Greens see the fight against tax evasion as also a fight against organized crime. They want a state real estate register, better-equipped tax offices, more audits of companies and people with million-euro incomes, and a federal reform against share deals.

Some people and companies do not pay their taxes. The Greens want to pursue this more strongly. Tax offices should get more staff. A register should show who really owns buildings. Companies should no longer be able to avoid the tax on buying property.

The Greens want to offset disadvantages faced by people of East German background in wealth, rents, and wages. To that end, they call at the federal level for a reform of inheritance and wealth taxes, changes to tenancy law, and considerably higher minimum wages.

In the East, people inherit less and often earn less. The Greens want to balance this out. Taxes on inheritance and wealth should change. The minimum wage should rise considerably. Rents should stay stable and affordable.

The Greens want to apply the connexity principle to district funding: whoever assigns a task to the districts should also cover its cost. In addition, pools of floating staff are to be expanded so that district offices can process residents' requests promptly.

The districts often get new tasks from the state. The Greens want this rule: whoever hands out a task also pays for it. This is called connexity. There should also be more floater teams. These teams help out in offices when there is a lot of work.

The Greens want far more buildings to be retrofitted for energy efficiency without tenants being pushed out. A tiered model would require owners to start with the buildings in the worst energy condition and would cap more tightly what can be passed on to rents. Costs are to be shared fairly among landlords, the public sector and tenants.

The Greens want more buildings to be renovated. The buildings then need less energy for heating. Owners should have to start with the worst buildings. Rents should not rise as much because of this. No one should lose their home because of it.

The Greens want to enforce the right to adequate housing in Berlin's state constitution and use all of the state's lawmaking powers to do so. The focus is mainly on large, profit-driven housing companies. In the long run, most of the housing market is to serve the common good, following Vienna's example.

Everyone in Berlin should have a suitable home. The Greens want to protect renters better. For example, from very high rents and from eviction. Big housing companies above all should follow strict rules. The city should keep its land and not sell it.

The Greens want a law requiring landlords with more than 50 units to offer a share of their apartments at affordable rents and to set aside money for maintenance. Violations would lead to trustees being appointed and profits being skimmed off. Landlords who repeatedly refuse to comply would have to sell their apartments.

The Greens want a new law for big landlords. It applies to those with more than 50 apartments. They must rent out some apartments at low prices. They must also save money for repairs. Those who break the rules face tough penalties.

The Greens want to keep pushing forward the referendum "Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen" (expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.) and to support the initiative behind it. The platform considers socializing large housing portfolios legally possible and affordable. It accuses the outgoing government of stalling implementation.

Berliners voted to take over big housing companies. The Greens want to carry out this vote. They support the group behind it. The party says this is legally possible. It also says Berlin can pay for it.

The Greens want to tighten and better enforce the ban on misusing housing for other purposes. Misuse would carry a minimum fine of 50,000 euros, and housing left empty for six months could be placed under compulsory administration. Neighborhood preservation zones (Milieuschutz) would also be expanded.

Apartments should be for living in. The Greens want to stop illegal vacation rentals. The fine should be at least 50,000 euros. If an apartment stays empty for six months, the state can manage it. In the end, it can become public property.

The Greens want a general ban on demolishing apartment buildings, along with monitoring of demolitions. At the same time, converting existing buildings into housing would become easier. A funding program is meant to boost the conversion of offices into apartments.

The Greens want to ban tearing down apartment buildings. They say buildings are often torn down to build costly new ones. Converting old buildings should become easier. Offices should become apartments. There should be public money for this.

The Greens want to set up a purchasing agency for apartments converted into condos and to have authorities review evictions for the owner's personal use. A central register and a cross-check with resident registration data are meant to expose false claims. Tenant counseling and rent checks would be expanded.

Some landlords end a lease because they want to move in themselves. The Greens want to check this more closely. An office should record all such cases. Berlin should also buy apartments so tenants can stay. Tenants should get more free advice.

The Greens want to support housing cooperatives more strongly instead of subsidizing home purchases. People with low and middle incomes would get help buying cooperative shares. A "Genossenschaftspakt Berlin" (cooperative pact) would address red tape, financing and access to land.

A cooperative belongs to its members. People who live there have a secure home. The Greens want to give cooperatives more support. People with little money should get help buying shares. Berlin should also provide land to cooperatives.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a reform of tenancy law and the Federal Building Code. Key elements are a rent cap, a permanent rent brake with penalties, and a ban on new inflation-indexed leases. The way land reference values are calculated and anti-discrimination rules in housing would also change.

Many rent rules are made at the national level. The Greens want to change these rules. Berlin should be allowed to cap rents. New leases should not rise with prices anymore. Tenants should be better protected from losing their home.

The Greens want to set binding public-interest goals for Berlin's state-owned housing companies and have parliament oversee their management more closely. The companies would be strengthened financially so that social housing and energy retrofits are possible without further rent increases. Tenants would get more say.

Berlin owns almost 400,000 apartments. The Greens want fixed social goals for these housing companies. Parliament should oversee them more closely. Berlin should give the companies more money. Tenants should have more say.

The Greens want Berlin's state-owned housing companies to rent more apartments to low-income households and especially vulnerable groups. A "rent dimmer" is meant to slow rent increases there, including after climate-related renovations.

Berlin owns housing companies. The Greens want these companies to give more homes to poor people. Rents there should rise more slowly. Rents should also not rise much after a climate renovation.

The Greens want to make it harder to sell municipal housing by adding a rule to Berlin's constitution. The program justifies this with the past sale of more than 200,000 municipal apartments, which it calls a historic mistake.

Berlin once sold many of its own apartments. The Greens call that a mistake. They want a new rule in Berlin's constitution. The rule should slow down such sales.

The Greens want to rent vacant ground-floor spaces of the state-owned companies at capped rents to social and cultural users. At the same time, neighborhoods are to be strengthened through more participation and community work, especially in large housing estates.

Some ground-floor shops are empty. The Greens want to rent them out cheaply. For example to youth clubs, artists and neighborhood groups. Community work in neighborhoods should also get more money and support.

The Greens want new housing to be created mainly within existing built-up areas and on land that is already paved. Green courtyards and unsealed land are to be preserved; the party rejects new office towers built against the will of districts and neighborhoods.

The Greens want to build new homes. But not on meadows or in green courtyards. Building should happen on gaps, vacant lots and parking lots. Homes should be built above supermarkets. The Greens reject tall office towers that neighbors do not want.

The Greens want existing housing to be used better by advising older people in particular on remodeling, splitting an apartment or moving. New buildings should include as many apartments as possible that can be divided or combined.

Many people need a different home when they get older. The Greens want to help with advice. For example with remodeling or moving nearby. New apartments should be easy to split or join.

The Greens want to stop selling state-owned land and lay this down in a land protection law. Land is to be bought up, leased under heritable building rights and awarded to the best concept rather than the highest bidder.

Berlin should no longer sell its land. A law should say so. The state should also buy more land. The best idea decides who may use a plot. Not the most money.

The Greens want half of the apartments in new developments under the Berlin model to be rent-controlled. In addition, shares for affordable commercial space and for cultural and creative space are to be required.

Anyone planning a large building project in Berlin must build affordable homes. The Greens want half of the homes to be affordable. Affordable rooms for businesses and culture should be built too.

The Greens want to change the building code so that serial and climate-friendly construction and remodeling become easier and cheaper. Renewable and low-carbon building materials are to be used in new construction and renovation.

The Greens want simpler rules for building. Building and remodeling should get faster and cheaper. Houses should be made of wood, clay or straw. That should help the climate.

The Greens want to develop new neighborhoods that are climate-neutral, mixed-use and built around short distances. By 2030, no additional land is to be sealed on balance.

New neighborhoods should be good for the climate. Daycare, school, shops and buses should be close. They should be there from the start. From 2030, Berlin should on balance pave over no new ground.

The Greens want to convert existing buildings rather than demolish them, calling for a shift in how the city builds. New neighborhoods are to be developed with non-profit partners and cooperatives and include squares, green space, sports areas and social facilities from the start.

The Greens do not want to tear down old buildings. They want to rebuild them for new uses. New neighborhoods should have squares, green areas and space for sports. Housing cooperatives should help build them. Children and young people should have a say.

The Greens want to treat housing in the Berlin-Brandenburg region as a single market. Berlin housing companies are to build and renovate in smaller surrounding towns as well, and public transit and cycling routes are to be expanded along the settlement corridors.

The Greens also look at Brandenburg when it comes to housing. Berlin housing companies should build and renovate homes in nearby towns too. Towns with empty apartments should get help. Buses and trains to these towns should get better.

The Greens want to build the neighborhoods that have been in planning for years or are already fully planned, rather than debating new sites. In the party's view, Berlin lacks implementation, not land. Plans that would pave over ecologically important areas are to be reviewed and changed.

The Greens want to actually build the planned neighborhoods now. Many plans have been ready for years. They reject new debates about more sites. But important natural areas should stay open.

The Greens want to prevent people from losing their homes in order to head off homelessness. Evictions are to be possible only when a replacement apartment is available. The rules on housing costs covered for benefit recipients are to be changed so that actual rents are covered.

The Greens want people to keep their homes. No one should be evicted without a new place to live. In winter there should be no evictions if possible. The welfare office should cover real rent costs better.

The Greens want to place homeless people in regular apartments and improve shelters in the meantime. A state office for accommodation is to coordinate places, and in the long run only nonprofit providers should be allowed to run them. The so-called protected housing market is to grow.

The Greens want better shelters for people without a home. A new office should organize the places. Later, only nonprofit groups should run shelters. Nonprofit means they do not make a profit. More people should get a normal apartment.

The Greens want to stop approving new office buildings for the time being. Vacant offices are to become affordable apartments with the help of a new funding program. The platform points to more than 2.2 million square meters of unused office space in Berlin.

Many offices in Berlin are empty. The Greens want to turn them into homes. The state should give money for this. For now, there should be no new office buildings.

The Greens want to create more accessible housing and promote communal forms of living. Medical practices, hospitals, and sports facilities are also to become accessible to people with disabilities step by step.

Berlin should get more homes without barriers. Hospitals and sports halls should also become accessible to everyone. Residential homes should offer more protection from violence. There should be more sports programs for people with disabilities.

The Greens want to build up an Azubiwerk (a service organization for vocational trainees) that runs affordable dorms, and to strengthen the Studierendenwerk Berlin (student services organization) financially. A federal-state pact would secure student services organizations nationwide. The party rejects tuition fees for all students.

Trainees and students need cheap housing. A new organization should run dorms for trainees. The student services organization should get more money. Cafeteria food should stay affordable. Studying should not cost tuition fees.

The Greens reject cuts to playgrounds, family centers and youth recreation facilities and want to keep these services. They also plan winter playgrounds, more say for young people and help for groups with special needs.

The Greens want to keep playgrounds and youth clubs. Berlin should not cut money there. There should be playgrounds for the winter. This helps families with little money. Right-wing extremists should have no place in youth clubs.

The Greens want to bring counseling and support to families instead of leaving parents to seek it out themselves. Family service offices, family centers at daycare centers and daycare social work are to be expanded. The platform bases this on the importance of the first months of life.

The Greens want better advice for families. The help should come to the families. It should be in many languages and without barriers. There should be more family offices close to home. They help with forms and with worries.

The Greens want to simplify signing up for a daycare spot. Every family is to receive the Kitagutschein (daycare voucher) without applying when the child turns one. Spots are to be allocated transparently and without discrimination.

The Greens want to make it easier to get a daycare spot. Families should get the daycare voucher automatically. It comes when the child turns one. A letter in several languages explains everything.

The Greens want stronger support for young people in difficult circumstances and see the state as responsible when parents cannot provide it. The focus is on mentally ill and neurodivergent children and teens, and on children who need intensive care.

Some children have a very hard time. For example, children with mental illness. The Greens want to give these children more help at school. The state should step in when parents cannot manage. Very sick children should get places to stay for a short time.

The Greens want to secure child protection counseling centers by law so that their funding no longer depends on the current budget situation. Training for family court judges and court-appointed child advocates would also be written into law.

The Greens want to protect children better. Counseling centers for child protection should have a fixed right to funding. Today the money depends on the budget. Family court judges should take training courses. That way they can understand children better.

The Greens want to establish environmental education permanently in every borough and create a central office for it within the Senate. Schoolyards and daycare yards are to become near-natural, and Berlin would get a "Klimahaus" (climate house) as a place of learning.

The Greens want people to learn more about the environment and the climate. Every borough should have offers for this. Schoolyards and daycare yards should become greener. Berlin should get a climate house. People can learn and meet there.

The Greens want to make master craftsman training free of charge, more flexible and more gender-equitable. Trades businesses are to keep locations close to residential areas and get more parking for commercial vehicles. The party also wants to support the training of refugees in companies.

Skilled trades matter for climate protection in Berlin. Training to become a master craftsman should cost nothing. People should be able to do it alongside their job. Trades firms should be able to stay in residential areas. Firms should get help when they train refugees.

The Greens want to redesign long-term funding contracts together with the universities and raise funding reliably. This is meant to provide planning security and restore the trust that, in the platform's view, was lost through budget cuts and the termination of the contracts. A building renovation program is to be added.

The Greens want new contracts with the universities. The universities should have a say. They should reliably get more money. That way they can plan better. Lecture halls, labs and libraries should be renovated too.

The Greens want to use legislation to significantly raise the share of permanent positions in academia, especially for postdoctoral researchers. Adjunct lecturers are to be paid better, and student employees are to get a new collective agreement. According to the platform, Berlin should again become a model for attractive academic careers.

Many researchers only have temporary contracts. The Greens want to create more permanent jobs. A law should make this possible. Adjunct lecturers should get more pay. Students who work at universities should get a new union contract.

The Greens want to make Berlin the leading location for research on the resilience of democracy. The platform cites growing anti-democratic movements as the reason. Initiatives that take in threatened researchers and students are to grow as well.

The Greens want more research on protecting democracy. Berlin should be a leader in this. Topics include fake videos and hate on the internet. Berlin should also take in threatened researchers from other countries.

The Greens want to anchor European topics firmly in school curricula and give all learners access to exchange experiences in Europe. A new research center on the upheavals in Eastern Europe is also to be founded.

Students should learn more about Europe. This should be a fixed part of the curriculum. All learners should be able to spend time in other European countries. The Greens also want to found a new research center on Eastern Europe.

The Greens want to keep and strengthen voluntary religious and worldview classes in Berlin schools. The Alevi community is to get its own professorship at Humboldt University.

In Berlin, religion class is voluntary. The Greens want to keep it that way. The classes should get better conditions. The Alevi community should get its own professor at the university.

The Greens want more staff per child in daycare centers and want to expand language education. The platform sees daycare as a place for learning and living in which free play has an important role.

The Greens want more staff for the children in daycare. Then the staff have more time for each child. Children should learn language better in daycare. Their first language should get support too.

The Greens want children with limited German skills to get help earlier. Following Hamburg's model, the language assessment for four-year-olds would be followed by mandatory support programs so that children can keep up in class later.

Some children do not speak German well before school starts. The Greens want to help these children earlier. Children take a language test at age four. After that, there should be fixed support programs. Hamburg already does this.

The Greens want to develop all schools along the lines of Berlin's award-winning schools. In the longer run, new exam formats and competency-based feedback would replace number grades. Fewer young people should leave school without a diploma.

The Greens want to improve schools. Good Berlin schools should be the model. Later, students should get detailed feedback on their learning instead of grades. Fewer teens should leave school without a diploma. Students should give their teachers anonymous feedback once a year.

The Greens want to double the number of Gemeinschaftsschulen (schools where children learn together through all grades) so that every district has them. The platform argues that, according to studies, learning together for longer raises performance and reduces inequality. The move from elementary to secondary school would be reformed.

In Gemeinschaftsschulen, children learn together for many years. The Greens want twice as many of these schools in Berlin. The party says learning together makes education fairer. Moving to secondary school should cause less pressure.

The Greens want to guarantee the right to inclusive education with a binding implementation plan drawn up together with people with disabilities. Instead of new special-needs schools, inclusive focus schools would be created. The state would pay for school transport services for children with impairments.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. The Greens want a fixed plan for this. People with disabilities should help write it. There should be no new special-needs schools. Instead, there should be schools with a focus on inclusion. The state should pay for rides to school.

The Greens want public funding for private schools to depend more on how many children from poorer families they enroll. Schools with a good social mix would get more money, those with a persistently poor mix less. For the party, the public school system comes first.

Private schools get money from the state. The Greens want to share out this money differently. Schools with many children from poor families should get more. Schools with few such children should get less. All children should be able to attend private schools.

The Greens want to hire more school social workers and expand school stations (on-site support centers) at all Berlin schools. Multiprofessional teams would come to schools in addition to teachers. The aim is to secure psychosocial support and reduce social disadvantage.

The Greens want more social workers in schools. They help children with problems. Every school should have a support station. Other specialists should also support the teachers. That way staff should be less overworked.

The Greens want computer science and media education to be a mandatory part of the curriculum from first grade in all school types. Students should understand algorithms and artificial intelligence and handle digital media critically. The party backs phone restrictions where a school considers them right.

Children should learn about computers and media from first grade. This should be required at all schools. They should be able to spot false news. Every school should get a media team. Schools can decide on phone rules themselves.

The Greens want schools to be run more democratically. Student councils would get their own funds and pedagogical support, and elementary schools would also get an elected council representing all students. Civic education would be written into Berlin's constitution as an educational goal.

The Greens want more democracy in schools. Student councils should get their own money. Children in elementary schools should also elect a council. Civic education should be written into Berlin's constitution.

The Greens want to extend guaranteed supervision at elementary schools until 2:30 p.m., including for children without an after-school care contract. Free school lunches would also be offered from 7th grade onward. The party also wants to promote a later school start and keep the family centers at elementary schools.

Elementary schools should look after children longer, until 2:30 p.m. This also applies to children without an after-school care contract. School lunch should also be free from 7th grade on. Schools should be able to start later in the morning.

The Greens want to remove paving from schoolyards, plant them and renovate old school buildings. Schools would be allowed to open their yards, playgrounds and common rooms to the neighborhood. Students' mental health would also get more attention.

Schoolyards should become greener, with more trees and less concrete. Old schools should be repaired. Schools should be able to open their yards to the neighborhood. Children's mental health should matter more.

The Greens want to end separate schooling inside refugee shelters and offer every child a place at a regular school. Refugee children would move into regular classes as quickly as possible. Instruction in students' family languages would be expanded as well.

Refugee children should no longer be taught in shelters. They should go to regular schools. They should quickly learn together with other children. Children should also get lessons in their family language.

The Greens want to record teachers' working hours and use that as the basis for a new working-time model. Every school would have teams drawn from several professions, without cutting teaching positions. Trainee teachers would also have to teach fewer hours.

Teachers should have a lighter workload. Schools should record exactly how long teachers work. A new model for working time should come from that. People from different professions should work together in schools.

The Greens want to make sure the teacher shortage does not fall mainly on schools in difficult circumstances. To that end, hiring quotas would return and a scholarship would tie students to understaffed schools. Teachers with foreign qualifications would find it easier to enter the school system.

Berlin does not have enough teachers. Some schools are hit especially hard. The Greens want to spread teachers more evenly. Students get money if they later work at such schools. Teachers from abroad should get a job more easily.

The Greens reject a compulsory 11th school year for young people without a follow-up placement. Instead, they favor a flexible Perspektivenjahr (orientation year) and more career guidance in schools. Every young person should have a path forward, even without a diploma.

The Greens do not want a compulsory 11th school year. Instead, there should be an orientation year. That year should be flexible. Schools should teach more about jobs. Everyone should get to know several companies.

The Greens want to create a guarantee of a vocational training place, funded by a levy. Initial vocational training would be fundamentally reorganized, with competence centers and a new state institute. The party points to the sharp decline in company-based training places in Berlin.

Every young person should get a training place. This is called a training guarantee. A levy pays for it. That means companies pay into a shared fund. There should also be more training at schools.

The Greens want to give students more exam attempts and strengthen part-time study. In the party's view, a final failure often has disproportionate consequences for those affected. Curricula would become more flexible.

Students should be allowed to retake exams more often. Today, a final failure means you can never study that subject again. The Greens think that is too harsh. Studying part-time should become easier.

The Greens want to found a university construction company to renovate the buildings of Berlin's universities. The company would finance the work through loans. The aim is to stop the buildings' decay and clear the renovation backlog.

Many buildings at Berlin's universities are in bad shape. The Greens want to found a new construction company. It should repair the buildings. It should pay attention to energy and the environment. The money should come from loans.

The Greens want universities to remain places for peaceful protest and controversial debate, and want to preserve their autonomy against political interference. At the same time, all students, especially Jewish students, should be able to study safely. Participation in governing bodies is to be expanded.

The Greens want to protect peaceful protest at universities. Politicians should interfere less in universities. Everyone should be able to study there safely. This is especially true for Jewish students. Students should have more say.

The Greens want to use the conference of state justice ministers to start a reform of legal education that involves everyone concerned. Topics such as racism, sexism and antisemitism are to become a fixed part of the training. In the legal traineeship, the stipend is to rise and the cap on additional earnings is to be dropped.

The Greens want to change how lawyers are trained. Everyone involved should have a say. There should be less required material. Grades should be easier to understand. Trainees should get more money. The traineeship is the practical part of the training.

The Greens want everyone in Berlin to be able to eat healthy, sustainable food regardless of income, and they regard nutrition as part of basic public services. To that end, Berlin's food strategy is to be developed further and meals in public institutions are to become healthier, more plant-based and more regional.

The Greens want good food for everyone in Berlin. Money should not matter for this. Food in schools, daycare centers and cafeterias will get healthier. There will be more vegetables and more food from the region. Drinking water will be free in public buildings.

The Greens want health care for women and FLINTA* that is available across Berlin and free of discrimination. This includes more specialized and multilingual services, free menstrual products in public buildings and a menopause strategy.

The Greens want better health care for women. No one should be treated unfairly. Every district should have gynecologists. Pads and tampons should be free in public buildings. There should also be more help during menopause.

The Greens want doctors' practices spread more evenly across the districts and new neighborhoods to be well served from the start. An urban health strategy is meant to link care and prevention more closely. The platform justifies this with unequal health prospects depending on where people live and their social situation.

Some parts of Berlin do not have enough doctors. This is mostly at the edge of the city. The Greens want to spread doctors' offices more fairly. New neighborhoods should also get enough doctors. The public health office should become stronger.

The Greens want to create health centers throughout Berlin that combine medical treatment, therapy, psychosocial support and prevention in one place. In addition, Community Health Nurses are to work in every district.

The Greens want new health centers all over Berlin. There you find doctors, therapy and advice in one place. The teams should speak several languages. Special nurses should work in every district. They help people in the neighborhood.

The Greens want to use the federal hospital reform and its transformation fund to modernize and digitalize Berlin's hospitals. Emergency care is to be developed further, including through integrated emergency centers. Data on treatment quality is to be published again.

The Greens want to make Berlin's hospitals more modern. They want to use federal money for this. There should be new centers for emergencies. Office doctors and hospitals work together there. Everyone should be able to read how well a hospital treats people.

The Greens want to use digital services, telemedicine and artificial intelligence as an easily accessible complement to care. To that end, the digital equipment of health care facilities is to be expanded. Digital self-determination and participation are to be preserved.

The Greens want more digital health services. One example is telemedicine. That means doctor and patient talk by video or phone. Doctors' offices and hospitals should get better technology. Care should stay good.

The Greens want to implement Berlin's heat action plan and enable hospitals, care homes, schools and sports facilities to draw up their own heat protection plans. The platform calls the climate crisis a health crisis, with heat so far being its strongest effect in Berlin.

Heat is dangerous for health. This is especially true for old and sick people and for children. The Greens want to help hospitals, care homes, schools and sports facilities. They should make their own plans against heat. New heat protection alliances should form in the districts.

The Greens want to expand easily accessible outreach and crisis services for people with mental illness in all districts. Psychiatric facilities are to receive more staff and funding so that waiting times fall. Additional services are planned for children and young people.

The Greens want more help for people with mental illness. Every district should offer help in a crisis. Psychiatric clinics should get more money and staff. That way people wait less for help. Schools should have more psychologists.

The Greens want people without health insurance or residence papers to receive medical care as well. The health system is to be free of discrimination, and services are to be culturally sensitive and offer interpreting.

Some people have no health insurance. Some have no residence papers. The Greens want them to be able to see a doctor too. There should be help with translation. Homeless people should also get better care.

The Greens want to bring counseling, hospice and palliative services together in a new strategy and develop them further. At the federal level, they want a law that protects the right to a self-determined death and regulates assisted suicide. They refer to the Federal Constitutional Court.

The Greens want better help for people at the end of life. Hospices care for dying people. These services should be close to home. The federal government should also pass a law on help with suicide. No one should be under pressure.

The Greens want to create a network of midwife services across Berlin, especially in districts that are poorly served so far. Delivery rooms are to get more staff, and midwife-led delivery rooms are to become the norm in hospitals.

Midwives help before, during and after birth. The Greens want more midwife services all over Berlin. More staff should work in delivery rooms. Midwives should lead delivery rooms in hospitals. The degree program for midwives should get lasting funding.

The Greens want state-owned hospitals to provide abortions and push at the federal level for more liberal abortion law. Young people are to get contraceptives free of charge. Health insurers are to pay for fertility treatment for everyone, regardless of relationship status.

The Greens want people to decide freely about having children. State-owned hospitals should offer abortions. Young people should get contraceptives for free. Health insurance should pay for fertility treatment for everyone. This should also apply to single people.

The Greens want to introduce a state law on prevention that defines the state's responsibilities. Health information is to be easier to understand and available in more languages. Measures are to be developed against health misinformation online.

Preventing illness is better than getting sick. That is what the Greens think. They want a new law for prevention in Berlin. Health information should be in easy language. It should also be in other languages. The Greens want to act against false information online.

The Greens want to draw up a prevention strategy for all of Berlin and involve residents in the process. It includes easy-to-reach vaccinations, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and more options for healthy eating and exercise. According to the platform, common diseases can be reduced considerably through prevention.

The Greens want to stop illness early. Berlin should get one shared plan for this. People in Berlin should have a say. Vaccines should be available close to home. Children should be able to eat well and be active.

The Greens want to make health conferences mandatory in every borough and anchor health promotion in all policy areas. The public health service (ÖGD) is to get more staff and funding. A fixed quota of university places at the Charité is planned for future doctors in public service.

Every borough should get a health conference. There, people discuss what the area needs. The public health offices should get more money and staff. The Charité hospital should keep study places for future public health doctors.

The Greens want more drug consumption rooms, more street outreach, and shorter waits for therapy. Help should not depend on a person giving up drugs. The platform points to rising numbers of drug deaths and the aim of solving problems rather than moving them elsewhere.

The Greens want to help people with addiction more. There should be more rooms for safer drug use. More social workers should help on the street. People should wait less for therapy. Help should not require quitting drugs first.

The Greens want to greatly enlarge Berlin's drug-checking service because, according to the platform, demand exceeds supply. It is also to operate on a mobile basis and be linked to a citywide warning system for dangerous substances. The emergency drug naloxone is to be available through addiction services and social work.

Drug checking means people have their drugs tested in a lab. They learn if dangerous substances are in them. The Greens want to make this service much bigger. There should also be mobile testing. A warning system should alert people to dangerous substances.

The Greens want to sharply limit gambling advertising and make financial checks and fixed deposit limits the norm in online gambling. Counseling for alcohol and medication dependence is to be coordinated at the state level. Protection of non-smokers in public spaces is to be enforced more strictly and, if needed, tightened by law.

The Greens want fewer ads for gambling. Online gambling should have fixed limits on deposits. Help for alcohol addiction should be equally good across Berlin. Non-smokers should be better protected.

The Greens want to make Berlin a pilot region where cannabis is dispensed legally. They also want to cut red tape for cultivation clubs. The platform calls the federal Konsumcannabisgesetz (cannabis law) the right step and wants to replace the black market with legal supply channels.

People in Berlin should be able to get cannabis legally. This should start as a test. Growing clubs should face less paperwork. The Greens want to end illegal dealing this way.

The Greens want to set up a Pflegekammer (nursing chamber) to represent nurses and nursing assistants as their own elected professional body. Without it, the platform says, nursing professions remain underrepresented on state-level bodies. After the start-up phase, its effectiveness is to be reviewed.

Nurses should get their own representation. It is called a nursing chamber. Nurses elect it themselves. The chamber speaks for them in politics. Later, there should be a check on how well it works.

The Greens want to secure union-scale pay, predictable hours, and binding staffing levels in nursing. Training is to be brought together on one campus and expanded. In addition, skilled workers from abroad are to be recruited under fair rules and have their qualifications recognized faster.

Nurses should get union-scale pay. Their working hours should be reliable. There should be fixed rules for enough staff. Training should happen in one shared place. Nurses from other countries should be recruited fairly.

The Greens want to mention family caregivers in Berlin's constitution and give them more relief. Plans include a citywide care emergency hotline, better-funded support services, and a push at the federal level for wage-replacement pay. The platform argues that relatives carry most of the burden of care.

Many people care for relatives at home. The Greens want to help them more. They should be named in Berlin's constitution. An emergency phone line should help fast in a crisis. Caregivers should get money to replace lost wages.

The Greens want to pass a Landespflegegesetz (state care law) that governs the state's care services and requires binding needs planning. More places for day, night, and short-term care are to be created in all boroughs. The platform notes that care places are unevenly spread and especially scarce in the outer boroughs.

Berlin should get its own care law. The state should plan how much care is really needed. Every borough should get more care places. Advice centers should be close by everywhere.

The Greens want to establish community health nurses in Berlin as an additional pillar of care. These professionals would give advice, make home visits and connect the various services in a neighborhood. Applications for Hilfe zur Pflege (care assistance benefits) would also become faster and more digital.

The Greens want a new kind of care worker in Berlin. They are called community health nurses. They give advice on health and care. They also visit people at home. Applying for care assistance should become faster.

The Greens want care to reflect the diversity of Berlin's population and would make training on this mandatory. At the same time, the state's care commissioner would gain more influence, partly to counter violence in care settings.

The Greens want care that fits all people. Care workers should take required training on this. There should be more advice for queer people. Berlin's care commissioner should have a say in new laws. Violence in care should be fought.

The Greens want to recruit more paramedics and create a separate career track for the emergency medical service. A round table is to link the service with health care, and crisis intervention teams are to be introduced. The party rejects lowering medical standards.

People who call 112 should get the right help. The Greens want to hire more trained staff for the ambulance service. There should be special teams for people in a mental crisis. People seeking help should reach the right place faster. Medical quality should not go down.

The Greens want people who have fled war and persecution to be able to settle in Berlin for good. Berlin should advocate a migration and asylum policy that the platform calls humanitarian and reasonable. Human rights are to be the benchmark.

Some people flee from war or persecution. The Greens want these people to find a new home in Berlin. Human rights should guide this policy.

The Greens want to recruit international skilled workers and graduates, especially from the tech sector. The party has in mind people looking for jobs elsewhere because of tighter US visa rules. A program is to support them in settling in Berlin.

Berlin needs more skilled workers. The Greens want to bring well-trained people from abroad. Many now find it hard to get a US visa. A program should help them get started in Berlin. Their degrees should be recognized more easily.

The Greens want to press at the federal level for asylum seekers to be allowed to work from their first day. Family members of skilled workers are to be able to enter without proving language skills beforehand and learn German afterward.

Asylum seekers should be allowed to work right away. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level. Skilled workers should be able to bring their family at once. The family does not have to pass a language test first. They learn German after arrival in free courses.

The Greens want trainees and skilled workers from abroad to be recruited through vetted, fair and safe procedures. The platform intends to take action against questionable practices by private placement agencies and against exploitation and human trafficking.

Berlin recruits skilled workers and trainees from abroad. The Greens want fair rules for this. Private agencies should not take advantage of anyone. Trainees from abroad should get the same pay. They should learn about their rights early and in their own language.

The Greens want to expand psychological and psychosocial support for refugees and make it easy to access. The platform argues that many of them have lived through war, violence or persecution and that mental health is a precondition for participation, education and integration.

Many refugees have lived through war and violence. The Greens want to give them more mental health support. The support should be easy to get. It should be offered in several languages.

The Greens want to open the way into work, vocational training and qualification for refugees from the start. Work permits are to be issued faster and foreign vocational qualifications recognized more quickly, because the platform sees employment as a precondition for self-determination and social security.

Refugees should be able to work or start training quickly. The Greens want less red tape for this. Degrees from other countries should be accepted faster. Companies should get help when they hire refugees.

The Greens reject the payment card for refugees planned by the Berlin Senate because, in the platform's view, it discriminates against them and limits their self-determination. Instead, benefits are to be paid out without red tape, and everyone should be able to get a bank account. At the federal level, the party wants to abolish the Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz (Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act).

The Berlin government plans a payment card for refugees. The Greens are against it. They think the card is unfair. Refugees should simply get their money paid out. Everyone should be able to have a bank account.

The Greens want to house refugees primarily in their own apartments and otherwise in smaller shelters across all districts instead of large facilities. Citing the Tegel site, the platform says such facilities did not meet people's needs. A housing law is to set minimum standards.

Refugees should live in their own apartments if possible. If not, they should live in small shelters. The Greens do not want very large shelters anymore. A new law should set rules for good shelters.

The Greens want to develop Berlin's Landesamt für Einwanderung (State Office for Immigration, LEA) into a service-oriented agency. Applications are to be filed digitally and processed quickly, because the platform says delays can cost people their job or their home.

The State Office for Immigration decides on residence papers. The Greens want the office to work faster and be friendlier. People should be able to apply online. It should be easier to get an appointment.

The Greens want to apply the new rules of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in Berlin in a way that upholds human rights. Independent monitoring is to prevent refugee protection from being weakened further during implementation.

The EU has agreed on new rules for asylum. The Greens want to apply these rules humanely in Berlin. An independent body should check this. The police should not stop people because of how they look.

The Greens want to allow deportations only in exceptional cases and to end deportations to crisis and conflict regions. They reject detention pending deportation, the separation of families, and the concept of safe third countries and safe countries of origin. Anyone found to have no right to stay should leave promptly, preferably voluntarily.

The Greens want to deport people only rarely. Nobody should be sent to war zones. Nobody should be locked up for this. Families should stay together. People with no right to stay should leave, ideally by choice.

The Greens want unaccompanied minor refugees to have an independent representative from the day they arrive. The child's best interests are to take priority at all times, and the young people are to live in facilities with trained educational staff.

Some children and teenagers flee without their parents. The Greens want them to get a representative right away. This person helps them with legal matters. The children should live in youth welfare homes.

The Greens want to restart Berlin's state admission program for refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and expand the federal humanitarian admission programs. Family reunification is to become possible again; the platform calls it a humanitarian minimum.

Berlin should again take in refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Germany as a whole should also take in more people in need. Families of refugees should be allowed to join them again. The Greens also want to take in people fleeing climate disasters.

The Greens want to give financial support to civilian sea rescue organizations in the Mediterranean. The platform argues that thousands of people drown there every year while fleeing and that the federal government has stopped its funding.

Many people drown in the Mediterranean Sea while fleeing. Private groups rescue people from the sea. The Greens want to give these groups money. In the Bundesrat they want to vote to protect the rescuers.

The Greens want refugee children and teens to get stable housing quickly and be admitted to daycare and school. Where possible, they should not live in shared shelters. Volunteer guardianships for unaccompanied minors would receive funding.

Refugee children should get a safe home quickly. They should not live in large shelters if possible. They should start daycare and school soon. Some children arrive without parents. The party wants more volunteer guardians for them. A guardian looks after the child's rights.

The Greens want to hire research staff with expert knowledge of countries of origin at the administrative court. The platform argues that wrong asylum decisions can have severe and irreversible consequences for those affected. The party regards the right to asylum and the protection of human rights as inviolable.

Courts decide whether a person gets asylum. The Greens want to hire experts at the court for this. These experts know the situation in the home countries well. They help the judges. This should lead to fewer wrong decisions.

The Greens want to advance equal pay for women and men and, to that end, publish an equal pay report for the administration and state-owned enterprises. Work and care duties are to become easier to combine through needs-based childcare, and discrimination in the workplace is to be reduced.

Women often earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. A report should show how the state of Berlin pays. In companies owned by the state, women should hold half of the top jobs. Parents should get better care for their children.

The Greens want half of professorships and leadership posts to be held by women and want diversity officers permanently established at all universities and research institutions. Measures against abuse of power are also to be strengthened. According to the platform, universities serve as a model for society.

The Greens want more women as professors and in leading jobs. Half of these jobs should go to women. Every university should have diversity officers. They advise people who face unfair treatment. The Greens also want to do more against abuse of power.

The Greens want to secure gender equality through a strategy covering all Senate departments, a parity law for the state parliament and expanded gender budgeting. According to the platform, the aim is for women and other groups covered by the term FLINTA* to live freely and with economic independence.

The Greens want more gender equality in Berlin. There should be a fixed plan for all parts of the government. Parliament should have as many women as men. The Greens want a law for that. The state should check who benefits from its spending. This is called gender budgeting.

The Greens want to implement the Gewalthilfegesetz (federal act on support for victims of violence) and spend the federal money on additional services. They plan two more women's shelters, more counseling and more safe apartments, because the platform considers the existing places insufficient.

The Greens want more protection for women who face violence. There should be two new women's shelters. More counseling and more safe apartments are also planned. Federal money should pay for extra help. Everyone affected should get help, no matter their residence status.

The Greens want to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on protecting women and girls from violence, with more prevention and more work with offenders. At the federal level they want to make verbal sexual harassment ("catcalling") a crime, and they want to make it easier to get a residence permit that does not depend on a spouse.

The Greens want to carry out the Istanbul Convention. This is a treaty among many countries to protect women from violence. There should be more prevention in schools and public offices. Offenders should, for example, take anger training. Sexual harassment with words should become a crime. Courts should get special divisions for sex crimes.

The Greens want to expand support for people affected by digital violence and strengthen the structures for reporting and documenting such cases. The platform sees this as a central form of gender-based violence that mostly affects women, girls and queer people.

Some people are threatened or insulted online. This is called digital violence. The Greens want more counseling for those affected. People should be able to report such cases better across Berlin. Police, courts and schools should get training on this.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for repealing Section 218 of the Criminal Code, which makes abortion a criminal offense. They justify this with the right of pregnant people to decide about their own bodies.

Section 218 is part of the Criminal Code. It says that abortion is generally a crime. The Greens want to remove this section. They say pregnant people should decide about their own bodies. Berlin should bring a bill on this to the Bundesrat.

The Greens want to protect and decriminalize sex workers and reduce the stigma they face. To do so, they plan to implement the results of the "Runder Tisch Sexarbeit" (round table on sex work) and develop protection plans with the districts, especially for the Kurfürstenkiez neighborhood.

The Greens want to protect people in sex work better. They should get safe and clean places to work. There should be more counseling and better medical help. Things should change especially in the Kurfürstenkiez area. People who violate sex workers' rights should be punished.

The Greens want to draw up an anti-discrimination and diversity strategy for all of Berlin that brings existing programs together. Responsibilities at the state and borough level are to be set out in law. Counseling services for disadvantaged groups are to receive permanent funding and be expanded.

The Greens want one plan against discrimination for all of Berlin. Discrimination means treating people unfairly. The plan should bring all current programs together. Advice centers should get lasting funding.

The Greens want to revise Berlin's Landesantidiskriminierungsgesetz (LADG, the state anti-discrimination law) and widen its protection. New protected characteristics would be added, the law would also apply to state-owned companies, and the ombuds office would become an independent authority.

Berlin has a law against discrimination by public offices. The Greens want to widen this law. It should protect more people. People should have more time to file a claim. The complaints office should become independent.

The Greens want to relaunch the Diversity-Landesprogramm (state diversity program) and make it mandatory for all Berlin administrations. Core measures would be written into law. In addition, a diversity check would review all Senate projects in advance for discriminatory effects.

Berlin has a program for more diversity in public offices. The Greens want to restart it. All offices would have to follow it. New laws would be checked first. The check asks: Does this law put anyone at a disadvantage?

The Greens want to fully implement the Partizipations- und Migrationsgesetz (PartMigG, Berlin's participation and migration law) and raise the share of BIPoC and people who experience racism or antisemitism in the administration to the population average by 2030. In the long run, a diversity quota is planned. State-owned companies would also get binding diversity strategies.

Few people with a migration background work in Berlin's public offices. The Greens want to change that. By 2030, their share should match the city's population. Later there should be a diversity quota. A quota is a fixed minimum share.

The Greens want to set up a new format in Berlin's state parliament that works on anti-discrimination policy together with civil society. It would also monitor how politics and the administration carry out the measures. In the party's view, the previous commission of inquiry did not deliver effective results.

The Greens want a new body in Berlin's parliament. There, lawmakers would work with civic groups. The topic is policy against discrimination. The body would also check whether public offices carry out the decisions.

The Greens want to fully implement Berlin's state plan for preventing antisemitism and close gaps in protection. Jewish sites would get better structural and personnel security, and prevention organizations would receive lasting rather than short-term funding. The party wants Jewish life in Berlin to be possible in safety and freedom.

The Greens want to protect Jewish people in Berlin better. Jewish places should get more security. Groups that work against hatred of Jews should get lasting funding. Police should pursue crimes driven by this hatred. Researchers should study hatred of Jews online.

The Greens want to appoint a state commissioner against anti-Muslim racism. The office would close gaps in protection in public authorities, schools and working life and carry out the recommendations of the responsible expert commission. Counseling and monitoring services would grow.

The Greens want a new office against hatred of Muslims. This person should protect Muslims better in public offices and schools. Public employees would have to take training. July 1 should become a day of remembrance.

The Greens want stronger action against anti-Asian racism and against anti-Slavic discrimination. To that end, counseling and reporting offices would be set up, public employees trained and self-organized groups funded.

The Greens want to protect people of Asian origin better. The same goes for people with roots in Eastern Europe. There should be advice centers and places to report incidents. Staff in public offices would get training.

The Greens want Berlin to commit to the second UN Decade for People of African Descent and to draw up an overall strategy with an action plan through 2034. The structures from the first decade would be kept and secured for the long term.

The United Nations declared ten years for people of African descent. The Greens want Berlin to take part. Berlin should write a plan through 2034. Advice centers for Black people should stay for good.

The Greens want to push back racism against Sinti and Roma in public administration, education, health care and the labor market. The responsible advisory council would be involved on a binding basis, and public bodies would receive training. The party opposes deporting Roma refugees to countries of origin classified as safe.

Sinti and Roma often face discrimination in Berlin. The Greens want to change that. Public offices should get training. Schools should teach about Sinti and Roma. Roma refugees should not be deported if they face violence at home.

The Greens want to permanently secure queer counseling centers, projects, cultural venues and safer spaces and expand them across all districts. The platform sees this infrastructure as threatened by attacks, displacement and the Senate's policies. Every district is to get at least one queer venue and a commissioner for queer issues.

The Greens want to protect queer people in Berlin better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Every district should have a meeting place for queer people. Every district should have a contact person for queer issues. Counseling should be available all over the city.

The Greens want to give Berlin's queer communities more support, with counseling centers, an action plan for bi+ people, and a fund for accessibility. The state's initiative on gender and sexual diversity is to become a binding overall strategy.

The Greens want to support queer people in Berlin more. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay, bi, or trans. There should be more counseling centers across the city. A plan should help bisexual people. The city should set fixed goals for all Senate departments.

The Greens want Berlin to push at the federal and EU level for legal reforms against discrimination. These include protecting gender and sexual identity in the Basic Law (Germany's constitution) and legally recognizing partnerships other than marriage.

The Greens want to change the Basic Law. That is Germany's constitution. It should say: No one may be treated worse because of their sexual identity. Partnerships without marriage should also be legally recognized. People in them take responsibility for each other. Berlin should push for this in Germany and in the EU.

The Greens want to respond to what they describe as a sharp rise in anti-queer hostility with education, prevention, and better protection. Schools are to receive queer education programs every year, and a study is to capture unreported violence.

The Greens want to protect queer people better from hate and violence. All school students should learn about queer life every year. Police should protect queer places more when there is danger. A study should show how much violence there really is. Many attacks are never reported.

The Greens want women, people with low incomes, people with disabilities and BIPoC to be better represented in the cultural sector, especially in leadership. A central complaints office is to be created to counter abuse of power.

Some groups have few chances in the cultural sector. This is true for women and people with disabilities, for example. The Greens want to change that. There should also be an office for complaints.

The Greens want to abolish Berlin's Neutralitätsgesetz (Neutrality Act) so that religious symbols such as the hijab, kippah or turban can also be worn in public service. In addition, all faith communities are to be able to practice their religion on equal terms, for example regarding holidays, shop opening hours and burials.

The Neutrality Act bans religious symbols for some state employees. Examples are the headscarf or the kippah. The Greens want to abolish this law. All religions should have the same rights.

The Greens want to create an independent complaints office for discrimination in schools. Education projects against anti-queer hostility, racism and antisemitism would be expanded and made a permanent offering in schools. The party considers these projects important for fostering respect and acceptance.

The Greens want a complaints office for schools. People who are treated unfairly can turn to it. Projects against racism, hatred of Jews and hatred of queer people should stay. There should be more of them.

The Greens want the workforce of Berlin's administration to reflect the city's diversity. To that end, language barriers in hiring are to be lowered and flexible work models such as remote work, job sharing and part-time leadership made possible. The practice of denying civil-servant status because of a person's weight is to end.

Very different people live in Berlin. The Greens want the public offices to reflect that. People who do not yet speak perfect German should get hired more easily. Staff should be able to work more flexibly, for example from home. Nobody should be denied civil-servant status because of their weight.

The Greens want climate action to start where people suffer most from environmental effects. According to the platform, this mainly affects people with low incomes, women, and older people, even though they cause less CO₂. People on public benefits should get easier access to subsidies, for example for balcony solar units.

The Greens say: Poor and older people suffer most from the climate crisis. But they cause little CO₂. So climate action should help these people first. People who get money from the state should get subsidies more easily. One example is a small solar unit for the balcony.

The Greens want Berlin's energy to come entirely from renewable sources while staying secure and affordable. According to the platform, investing in renewables keeps prices stable and creates independence from fossil fuels. These mostly come from states with authoritarian governments.

The Greens want Berlin to use only renewable energy. That means power from sun and wind, for example. The energy should be secure and affordable. Berlin should then no longer need oil and gas from other countries.

The Greens want Berlin to become climate neutral by 2040 and point to Hamburg as a model. Binding targets and clear responsibilities are to apply. The Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Program is to be adopted quickly.

The Greens want Berlin to be climate neutral by 2040. That means the city no longer harms the climate. So far the goal is the year 2045. There should be fixed targets and clear responsibilities.

The Greens want every state law and measure to be reviewed for its climate impact. Climate protection would thus become a task for every department of the Senate (Berlin's state government). If requirements of Berlin's climate protection law are missed, action programs would be mandatory.

The Greens want a climate check. This means Berlin reviews every new law. Is it good or bad for the climate? All parts of the government should pay attention to the climate. If Berlin breaks its climate rules, it must make a new plan.

The Greens want to move Berlin's district heating and power supply away from fossil fuels faster and shut down the gas grid in the long run. At the same time, more buildings should get energy retrofits, starting with those in the worst condition. This is meant to protect tenants from rising fossil energy costs.

Berlin mostly heats with gas and coal today. The Greens want to change that. District heating should come from renewable sources. The gas grid should be shut down later. More buildings should be insulated better. This way tenants should not pay too much for heating.

The Greens want to advance new local heating networks in neighborhoods and fund cooperatives for them, both at founding and for investments. Berlin's district offices should steer heat planning locally and get permanent heating transition managers. Public buildings should connect to the networks as reliable customers.

Local heating means: A small network supplies several buildings with heat. The Greens want more of these networks. Citizens can found a cooperative for this. The state should give money for it. In every district, specific people should take care of this topic.

The Greens want to subsidize heat pump installation with state programs that add to federal programs and fill gaps. The state should pay costs directly so that no one has to advance the money. Leasing and contracting models should also qualify for funding, along with free advice.

A heat pump heats without gas or oil. The Greens want more heat pumps in Berlin. The state should give money for this. People should not have to pay the money first themselves. People should also be able to pay for a heating system in monthly payments. There should be free advice.

The Greens want the state-owned district heating company BEW to rely on large heat pumps, deep geothermal energy and waste heat. They reject burning wood and using green hydrogen for heating, and want less waste incineration at the Klingenberg site. Customers, employees and civil society are to have a binding say in the transition.

The Greens want district heating in Berlin to be carbon-neutral. District heating is heat that reaches many buildings through pipes. The company BEW belongs to the state of Berlin. It should use heat from the ground and from wastewater. It should not burn wood for this.

The Greens consider the natural gas distribution grid unsuitable for conversion to carbon-neutral use and want to shut down unneeded sections over time. Only for industrial and commercial sites with no other option should part of it become a green hydrogen network. Customers are to be informed early and protected from rising grid costs.

The Greens want to shut down Berlin's natural gas network bit by bit. Only some companies should later get hydrogen through the network. Customers should be told early. They should not have to pay more for the network than before.

The Greens want to raise solar power's share of Berlin's electricity significantly, relying above all on the roofs of public buildings. By 2030, solar panels are to be installed there wherever technically feasible. An implementation plan with priorities, timelines and verifiable targets is meant to ensure this.

The Greens want more power from the sun in Berlin. All public buildings should have solar panels by 2030. This applies where it is technically possible. There should be a firm plan for this. Parking lots should also produce solar power.

The Greens want tenants to benefit directly from solar power. Tenant electricity and shared building supply are to become the norm, and state-owned housing companies are to approve balcony solar units more easily and uniformly. The rollout of smart meters is also to be sped up.

The Greens want tenants to be able to use solar power too. Solar power from the roof of your own building should become normal. Balcony solar units should be easier to get approved. This applies to homes owned by state housing companies. There should also be money for power storage.

The Greens want to designate wind energy areas in Berlin in line with federal requirements. Mainly already paved commercial and industrial sites are to be used, while forests are generally to be left alone because of their protective and recreational role. Residents are to share in the revenue.

The Greens want to build wind turbines in Berlin. The turbines should mainly stand on commercial and industrial land. Forests should mostly stay free of them. People living nearby should get money from the turbines.

The Greens want to cut energy use because, in their view, carbon neutrality can only be reached with frugal consumption. To that end, energy-saving contracting is to be carried out anew in as many public facilities as possible. Under this model, a service provider implements savings measures and is paid from the energy costs saved.

The Greens want Berlin to use less energy. Public facilities should sign contracts with specialist companies for this. The companies help save energy. Businesses should save energy too. There should be a network for that.

The Greens want to bring quick relief to neighborhoods that suffer most from heat. The focus is on areas with many low-income and disadvantaged households, since the platform sees environmental policy as social policy too. Berlin's Climate Adaptation Act is to be implemented ambitiously and together with the Mobility Act.

The Greens want to protect people better from heat. This matters most in areas with little green space. People with little money often live there. There should be more shade and more drinking fountains. On hot days, cool public buildings should be open.

The Greens want to launch a program to remove paved surfaces so that, on balance, no additional land is sealed as soon as possible. The city is to become greener especially where there is little greenery today. One million new trees are to be planted, with their upkeep funded for the long term.

The Greens want to remove concrete and asphalt from many areas. This is called unsealing. Plants should grow there. Berlin should get one million new trees. There should be enough money to care for the trees.

The Greens want rainwater to be stored and allowed to seep into the ground within the city instead of being drained away. This is meant to cool the city, replenish groundwater, water urban greenery and protect waterways. The Berliner Regenwasseragentur (Berlin Rainwater Agency) is to be expanded and given more funding for this.

The Greens want rainwater to stay in the city. It should seep into the ground and not flow into the sewers. This cools the city and helps plants. There should be green roofs and rain barrels for this. The rainwater agency should get more money.

The Greens want to permanently secure existing green spaces, create new ones and preserve cold-air corridors. Tempelhofer Feld is to remain protected, and allotment gardens are to be kept and opened up more to the general public. Borough offices are to receive earmarked funds for the upkeep of greenery and trees.

The Greens want to protect parks and green spaces in Berlin. Tempelhofer Feld should stay open. Allotment gardens should stay too. The boroughs should get more money for upkeep. Trees should be better protected.

The Greens want to secure Berlin's forests through state law and expand the forested area. The forests are to become near-natural mixed woodlands that cope better with heat and drought and hold more water.

The Greens want to protect the forests in Berlin. A law should make sure the forests stay. There should also be more forest. The forest should have many kinds of trees. Then it can handle heat and dry weather better.

The Greens want to carry out Berlin's Biodiversity Strategy 2030+ and link habitats into a connected network of biotopes. In the long run, no pesticides should be used in Berlin, starting with land owned by the state.

Many animals and plants live in Berlin. The Greens want to protect their living spaces and connect them. There should be more flower meadows and hedges. Pesticides are chemicals that kill pests. The Greens want Berlin to stop using them, first on land the state owns.

The Greens want to cut water use in Berlin to keep the drinking water supply secure during the climate crisis. To that end, the "Masterplan Wasser" (water master plan) is to become binding, and groundwater extraction is to be regulated more tightly.

The Greens say Berlin must use water carefully. Otherwise drinking water could run short. People and companies who pump groundwater should face stricter rules. Rainwater should be used more often for watering. Golf courses should only get rainwater.

The Greens want to make Berlin's rivers, lakes and small water bodies more natural and implement the EU Water Framework Directive. Polluted rainwater, microplastics and PFAS are to be kept out of the water, and the city's water utility would be allowed to reinvest its own profits.

The Greens want cleaner rivers and lakes in Berlin. The banks should become greener and more natural. Dirty rainwater should no longer flow into rivers without a filter. The Greens also want to ban PFAS. These are chemicals that almost never break down.

The Greens want to lift the blanket swimming ban so that people can swim in the Spree river. To make that possible, water quality monitoring would be extended across the whole city.

Today, swimming in the Spree river is not allowed. The Greens want to end this ban. The city should check everywhere how clean the water is. Then people can cool off downtown in summer.

The Greens want to cut particulate and nitrogen oxide pollution across Berlin, guided by WHO air quality guidelines. The core measure is a zone where, step by step, only emission-free vehicles would be allowed.

The Greens want cleaner air in Berlin. For this, there should be a special zone. Step by step, only vehicles without exhaust should drive there. Construction sites and wood heaters should also make less dust.

The Greens call for a ban on selling fireworks and setting off firecrackers that applies all year and everywhere. They justify this with the protection of people, animals and the environment.

The Greens want to ban private fireworks. The ban should apply all year and everywhere. Selling fireworks should also be banned. On New Year's Eve, there should be light shows instead.

The Greens want streets and green spaces cleaned more often and want the city sanitation service BSR to take over all parks and playgrounds. Every household would be able to get rid of bulky waste for free once a year.

The Greens want a clean Berlin. The city cleaning service should clean all parks and playgrounds. Every household should be able to hand in bulky waste for free once a year. Bulky waste means large old things like furniture.

The Greens want to introduce a tax on single-use packaging, dishes and cutlery to make reusable options more attractive. Repair, swapping and reuse would be promoted, and separate collection of organic waste would become mandatory.

The Greens want less trash in Berlin. There should be a tax on throwaway packaging. Then reusable items pay off more. There should be more places to repair and swap things. Everyone should have to collect food and garden waste separately.

The Greens want to work closely with Brandenburg and neighboring municipalities on protecting water, nature and the climate. Two parks in the Barnim area are to become UNESCO biosphere reserves, and Berlin's Stadtgüter (city-owned estates) are to serve as a model for environmentally friendly land use.

Berlin and Brandenburg should protect the environment together. This applies to drinking water and to the Spree and Havel rivers, for example. Two parks in the Barnim area should get special protection. Berlin owns farm estates in Brandenburg. Farming there should be gentle on the environment.

The Greens want to anchor the office of an independent state animal welfare commissioner in law and permanently fund the animal shelter, the pet food bank and wildlife stations. The breed list for dogs would be dropped and replaced by a mandatory dog handler's license.

The Greens want to protect animals in Berlin better. There should be an independent commissioner for animal welfare. The animal shelter should get enough money for the long term. The list of dangerous dog breeds should go away. Instead, all dog owners should have to get a dog license.

The Greens want to expand protection for wildlife, urban animals and bees in Berlin. They plan a central coordination office for wildlife, revised hunting and nature conservation laws, and a return to closed seasons for raccoons and nutrias.

The Greens want to protect wild animals in Berlin better. A new office will take care of wildlife. Raccoons and nutrias will get closed seasons again. In a closed season, nobody may hunt these animals. Bees will also get more protection.

The Greens want to expand research, teaching and application without animal testing in Berlin. The goal is to phase out animal experiments in favor of other methods, and students are to have a right to learn such methods.

The Greens want fewer animal tests in research. Other methods will replace the tests step by step. Students will be allowed to learn these methods. A new center will be built for this.

The Greens want less food to be thrown away at every stage from production to consumption. They advocate legalizing dumpster diving and requiring retailers to sell food close to its expiration date at a discount or donate it.

The Greens want less food to end up in the trash. Dumpster diving should be legal. That means people take thrown-away food from store trash bins. Stores should sell food that is almost expired for less or donate it.

The Greens want a law ensuring that every residential area has accessible, connected and near-natural green spaces. Green infrastructure is to carry the same weight in urban planning as other planning tools. Residents are also to have more say in shaping their neighborhoods.

The Greens want a law on green spaces. Every residential area should have parks and greenery nearby. Crowded neighborhoods should get more plants and cooling. People in the neighborhood should be able to help decide.

The Greens reject any construction on Tempelhofer Feld and regard the referendum on it as binding. The field is to remain a place for recreation, sports, culture, nature and the urban climate. The airport building is to become a site for the cultural and creative industries.

The Greens want to keep Tempelhofer Feld open. Nobody should build there. Berliners decided this in a public vote. The old airport building should become a place for culture.

The Greens want to expand food education for all age groups and to promote farming in the city as well as regional supply chains. According to the program, this is meant to secure food supply and protect the environment.

The Greens want people to learn more about food. Schools and daycare centers will get teaching kitchens and gardens. The city will also grow more food itself. The city's own farms will switch fully to organic farming.

The Greens want to create a Berlin climate ticket valid nationwide that costs people with low incomes nine euros a month. The BerlinPass for discounted transit, culture and leisure is to return. The platform justifies this with everyday affordability and climate protection.

The Greens want a climate ticket for buses and trains. People with little money pay nine euros a month. School students ride for free. The BerlinPass should also come back. It makes culture and leisure cheaper.

The Greens promise a mobility guarantee: reliable bus and rail service throughout Berlin and the surrounding region. Service every ten minutes is to become the baseline in more areas, including evenings and weekends.

The Greens want a mobility guarantee. This means buses and trains run reliably all over Berlin. They should come every ten minutes in more places. This also applies in the evening and on weekends.

The Greens want to reduce private car traffic in Berlin and strengthen walking, cycling, and public transit. They share the aims of the “Berlin autofrei” (car-free Berlin) initiative and support putting its draft law to a referendum.

The Greens want fewer cars in Berlin. Buses, trains, bike lanes, and sidewalks should get better. There is a citizens' group called “Berlin autofrei”. The Greens agree with its goals. People in Berlin should vote on its proposal.

The Greens want stations, buses, and trains to be safer and cleaner. They plan a trial of separate subway compartments for women and other groups (FLINTA*), and want the BVG transit company to deploy more trained security staff.

The Greens want buses and trains to be safer. The subway should test separate compartments. These are meant for women and queer people. The BVG transit company should use more trained security staff. Paths to stops should have better lighting.

The Greens want to gradually make every bus stop and train station in Berlin fully accessible. People of all ages should be able to use public transit without obstacles.

The Greens want all stops and stations to be accessible. Accessible means everyone can get in without obstacles. There should be elevators and escalators. This helps people with wheelchairs or walkers.

The Greens want to end cancellations and delays at the BVG and the S-Bahn. They plan to buy new vehicles, speed up the renewal of S-Bahn signaling and switching technology, and recruit more staff. The platform rules out cuts to public transit.

Many BVG and S-Bahn trips get canceled. The Greens want to change that. They want to buy 1,500 new subway cars and more buses. The S-Bahn's technology should be renewed faster. Workers should get good pay.

The Greens want to extend the rail network to better connect outer neighborhoods and the state of Brandenburg. The i2030 projects for S-Bahn and regional rail are to be financially secured and built faster, and the eastern tangential line has top priority.

The Greens want to build more rail lines. People on the edge of the city should get around faster. Brandenburg should be easier to reach too. A new line should connect Köpenick, Lichtenberg, and Marzahn. The Greens also want federal money for this.

The Greens want to resume tram expansion and reverse the planning freeze imposed by the CDU. New lines are to get priority in planning, and trams are to run more often and more reliably.

The Greens want to build more tram lines. The CDU stopped the expansion. The Greens want to undo that. Trams should run more often and get priority at traffic lights. Longer trams are also planned.

The Greens want bike, cargo bike, and car sharing available in every district, especially outside the S-Bahn ring. A publicly funded bike-share system is to return and become part of the transit fare. In tight neighborhoods, e-scooters and rental bikes may only be parked at fixed stations.

The Greens want more rental bikes and shared cars all over Berlin. This matters most on the edge of the city. A bike-share system with public money should come back. In tight neighborhoods, e-scooters may only be parked at fixed stations. Companies should face consequences for badly parked scooters.

The Greens want to make walking in the city safer and more comfortable. Pedestrians are to get longer green phases, and turning vehicles are to get their own signal phase as a rule in order to prevent turning accidents.

The Greens want walking in Berlin to be safer. Traffic lights should stay green longer for people on foot. Turning cars should not have green at the same time as walkers. Sidewalks should get wider. There should be more benches.

The Greens want to lift the freeze on new bike lanes and build out the planned cycling network. They call for continuous bike lanes on main roads, bicycle streets on side streets and more bike parking so that cycling is safe for everyday use.

The Greens want to build more bike lanes again. Big roads should get safe bike lanes. Small streets should become bicycle streets. There should also be more places to park bikes.

The Greens pursue the goal that no one is killed or seriously injured in traffic (Vision Zero). To get there, they want to extend 30 km/h limits as far as possible, make intersections safer and rebuild streets to be barrier-free. The districts are to receive extra money for this.

The Greens want no one to die in traffic anymore. So many streets should have a speed limit of 30 km/h. Crossings and sidewalks should become safer. People with disabilities should get around the city more easily. The districts get more money for this.

The Greens want to create many new school zones in all districts where through traffic is no longer allowed. The program names Paris as the model. Children should be able to travel to school on their own and safely.

The Greens want safe zones in front of schools. Cars should no longer drive through there. The model is the city of Paris. Children should be able to walk to school alone and safely.

The Greens want to double the number of fixed and mobile speed cameras in Berlin and add red-light cameras. In the program's view, speed limits and red lights only protect lives if compliance is checked.

The Greens want twice as many speed cameras in Berlin. Speed cameras check whether cars drive too fast. There should also be cameras at traffic lights. The party says rules only protect people when someone checks them.

The Greens want to redesign residential neighborhoods so that through traffic no longer passes through, while residents and emergency vehicles can still get in. Trees, benches and drinking fountains are meant to create cool places to spend time. According to the program, street space should serve many uses, not just traffic.

The Greens want quiet neighborhoods. Cars should no longer just drive through. Residents and ambulances can still get in. There should be more trees, benches and drinking fountains. Children should be able to play outside.

The Greens want to raise the fees for resident parking permits because they consider today's price too low. Managed parking is meant to make better use of public space and shift traffic to buses, trains, bikes and walking. The state and the districts are to share the revenue.

The Greens want residents to pay more for parking. The party thinks the price is too low today. The state and the districts get the money. The state puts its share into buses and trains.

The Greens reject the 17th construction section of the A 100 city highway and want to close the 16th section for the time being. They also reject the four-lane Tangentialverbindung Ost (eastern tangent road) as currently planned. Instead they rely on public transit and want to dismantle urban highways in general.

The Greens do not want to extend the A 100 highway. A new part of the highway should close for now. They also reject a big new road in the east. They want more trains instead. Old city highways should be removed.

The Greens want all construction sites to be coordinated by a central unit in the Senate, following Hamburg's model. Higher fees for space blocked for long periods and deadlines against idle sites are meant to shorten construction times. Residents and businesses should learn earlier what is planned.

The Greens want to plan road works better. One office in the Senate should coordinate all sites. Whoever blocks a lot of space for a long time pays more. Sites should not stand idle for long. People should know early what is coming.

The Greens want to speed up the double-tracking and electrification of the Ostbahn rail line toward Poland. They also back the Deutschlandtakt (a coordinated nationwide timetable) and more night trains to major European cities. Rail is meant to become a climate-friendly alternative to short-haul flights.

The Greens want to improve the rail line to Poland. The line should get two tracks and electric power. There should be more night trains to European cities. Then fewer people need to take short flights.

The Greens want no more private jets to take off or land at BER airport. They argue that a wealthy few impose noise and emissions on nearby residents. They also call for a night flight ban from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and want to give the airport company no additional taxpayer money.

The Greens want no more private jets at BER airport. These planes cause noise and fumes for the neighbors. No planes should fly at night from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The airport should get no new money from the state.

The Greens want people with disabilities to be able to use buses and trains on their own. Elevators are to run more reliably, and there are to be more accessible taxis.

People with disabilities should be able to use buses and trains on their own. The elevators at stations should work reliably. There should be at least 250 inclusion taxis. These are taxis that wheelchairs fit into. The on-call bus BVG Muva should stay for now.

The Greens want to help Berlin companies use artificial intelligence, but attach conditions. Productivity gains should also benefit employees, and AI systems should be tested for discrimination before they are used in sensitive areas.

The Greens want to help companies use AI. AI means artificial intelligence. Workers should also benefit from it. AI must not treat people unfairly, for example in job applications. So the systems should be tested first.

The Greens want to move schools and universities step by step to European, open-source and public-interest software. This is meant to reduce dependence on providers outside Europe and strengthen data protection. University IT security is also to be improved.

Schools and universities often use software from companies outside Europe. The Greens want to change that. They want open software from Europe. Anyone can inspect and check open software. University computers should also become safer.

The Greens want to strengthen Berlin's data protection commissioner and extend her powers to the security agencies. To that end, the EU's Law Enforcement Directive is to be fully implemented, including sanctioning powers. IT procedures are to safeguard privacy.

The Greens want to protect personal data better. Berlin's data protection commissioner should get more rights. She should also be allowed to check the police and other security agencies. She should be able to impose penalties for violations.

The Greens want to give priority to digitalizing the justice system. Now that electronic case files have been introduced, workflows and organization are to be adapted and digital assistance systems used to relieve staff. In court proceedings, a human being is always to make the final decision.

The courts should work more digitally. Computer programs should help with the work. This should take pressure off judges. But a human should always decide in the end. There should be Wi-Fi everywhere in the courts.

The Greens want dealings with public offices to work without hunting for appointments, waiting in line or confusing forms. They plan a digital citizens' office, a Berlin app with all administrative services and a service portal organized by life situations. An independent digital council is to advise the Senate.

The Greens want to make dealing with public offices easier. There should be a citizens' office online. It offers advice by video and plain language. A Berlin app should bundle all public services. People who need help can also get it in person.

The Greens want to complete Berlin's Digital Act and enshrine in it a right to communicate digitally with the administration. State software contracts are to be awarded only to open-source projects. The law is also to include standards for accessibility and open data.

The Greens want to finish a digital law for Berlin. Everyone should have the right to contact public offices digitally. Berlin should only order open-source software. With open source, anyone can look at the program code. The administration should publish its data on its own initiative.

The Greens want to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in the administration by law. The rules are to guard against risks such as structural discrimination and uphold data protection. Decisions about people are always to be made by people.

Artificial intelligence can take work off the administration. But the Greens also see dangers. AI can treat people unfairly. So a law should regulate how it is used. In the end, a human should always decide.

The Greens want to reduce the administration's dependence on US and Chinese technology corporations. To do so, the state-owned ITDZ Berlin is to be expanded into a platform provider, and open source is to take priority over proprietary software. Data protection and security are to apply from the outset in all software development.

Berlin's administration uses a lot of technology from big US and Chinese companies. The Greens want to depend on them less. The state's IT center should grow and offer its own platforms. Open software should come first. Data should be well protected and encrypted.

The Greens want stadiums to remain safe, inclusive places and rely on prevention to get there. Clubs and associations are to help pay for this work, and games are to be classified as high-risk according to clear criteria.

There should be no violence in stadiums. So the Greens want more work with fans. The soccer associations should help pay for it. Some games count as very risky. There should be clear rules for that.

The Greens want the BVG and the S-Bahn to no longer be required to file criminal complaints for riding without a ticket, as long as the federal government has not decriminalized it. The fine would remain. The platform expects this to ease the burden on the courts and to be fairer socially.

Some people ride without a ticket. Today this can be a crime. The Greens want this: the BVG and the S-Bahn no longer have to report it to the police. People still pay a fine. This should take work off the courts and save prison costs.

The Greens want to introduce uniform police procedures for cases of gender-based and domestic violence, modeled on Spain. They also support electronic ankle monitors and want mandatory training for all contact points that deal with victims.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. The police should follow fixed rules in such cases. Spain is the model for this. Offenders could have to wear an electronic ankle monitor. This is a device on the leg that reports the location. Hospital staff should also get training.

The Greens want to expand efforts to prevent right-wing extremism, especially among children and young people and online. The platform argues that far-right groups are increasingly recruiting young people.

The Greens want to do more against right-wing extremism. They want to start early, mostly with young people. Schools should get help with this. There should also be more offers online.

The Greens want stronger protection and counseling for people affected by far-right violence. Their cases are to be recorded as politically motivated crimes and solved quickly. The platform points to a sharp rise in such offenses.

Some people are threatened or attacked by right-wing extremists. The Greens want to protect these people better. There should be more counseling for them. The police should solve their cases quickly.

The Greens want far-right crimes punished faster and more consistently, including minor offenses. Right-wing extremists, Reichsbürger (people who reject the German state) and followers of conspiracy ideologies are to lose their weapons. The public sector is also to be protected from right-wing extremists.

The Greens want to prosecute far-right crimes strictly. This also applies to small offenses. Right-wing extremists should no longer have weapons. Enemies of the constitution should not work for the state.

The Greens want criminal cases against users to be dropped as a rule when the amount is within clearly defined limits for personal use. They also back pilot projects in which drugs are dispensed under controlled conditions. Police and courts are to focus their resources on organized crime instead.

People with a small amount of drugs for themselves should usually not be punished. The amount should be clearly set. The Greens also want to test projects that hand out drugs in a controlled way. Police should focus more on large criminal gangs.

The Greens want to permanently secure youth social work and youth cultural programs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, especially those aimed at young men. The platform treats prevention as the most effective way to fight crime and names poverty, lack of prospects and lack of participation as its main causes.

The Greens want to keep programs for young people running. This matters most in poor neighborhoods. Young men in particular should find help there. The party says prevention is the best protection against crime.

The Greens want to spread community policing throughout Berlin. More local contact officers and visible presence are meant to raise trust in the police and people's sense of safety. Case conferences are planned for people in mental health crises.

The police should be closer to people. There should be more regular contact officers in each neighborhood. More officers should patrol by bike. People with mental illness should get special help.

The Greens want to prioritize renovating police and fire service buildings and vehicles and to guarantee basic equipment for emergency personnel. Police training is also to become more attractive and working conditions better, so the services have enough staff despite demographic change.

The Greens want to renew police and fire service buildings and vehicles. Emergency workers should have good protective gear and enough supplies. Work should fit better with family life. Workers who are attacked on duty should get more help.

The Greens want to make security agencies more diverse and counter discrimination, racism and sexism within them. Cases of police violence are to be investigated and addressed. Antifeminism is to become a distinct category in the work of the security agencies.

The Greens want more diversity in the police and fire service. The agencies should deal openly with mistakes. They should act against racism and sexism. Staff should learn more about democracy.

The Greens want to expand independent oversight of the police. The Bürger- und Polizeibeauftragter (citizens' and police commissioner) is to be able to effectively review every case brought to him. The platform regards the creation of this office as the right step toward greater trust in government action.

Berlin has a commissioner for citizens and the police. He looks into complaints about the police. Police officers can also turn to him. The Greens want him to be able to check every case properly.

The Greens want to introduce a regular Berlin security report that examines the causes of crime as well as the number of offenses. On that basis, the police are to deploy their resources where they have the greatest effect. The district Ordnungsämter (public order offices) are to be strengthened to relieve the police.

The Greens want a new report on safety in Berlin. The report should also show the causes of crime. The police should then work where it helps most. The public order offices should handle more tasks themselves.

The Greens reject surveillance without specific cause, including biometric facial recognition, blanket data retention and citywide video surveillance. The platform also rejects analysis software from Palantir and a large police database. Instead, targeted investigative tools and the police's IT forensics are to be strengthened.

The Greens oppose surveillance without a reason. They do not want automatic face recognition. Cameras should only be used in a few important places. The police should not use software from the company Palantir. Instead, the police should get better tech experts.

The Greens want to evaluate Berlin's police law, the ASOG, and in doing so strengthen civil rights and parliamentary oversight. They reject police stops without cause because, in the platform's view, they achieve little and encourage racial profiling. A digital stop receipt is to record the reason for each check.

The Greens want to review Berlin's police law. The police should not stop people without a reason. Anyone who is stopped should get a digital receipt. It states the reason for the stop. The party wants to review weapon-ban zones and remove some.

The Greens reject stricter rules in Berlin's Versammlungsfreiheitsgesetz (freedom of assembly law). They argue that violence and hate at demonstrations are already not covered by the fundamental right. According to the platform, the police should rely on de-escalation at assemblies.

The Greens do not want to make the law on demonstrations stricter. Violence and hate are already banned there today. The police should act calmly at demonstrations. Police mistakes should be investigated.

The Greens want an overall strategy against right-wing extremism and more deradicalization and counseling work. Outstanding arrest warrants against extremists are to be enforced, and anti-constitutional associations banned where the law allows. Investigations into attacks on the power grid are to be stepped up.

The Greens want to do more against right-wing extremism. Police should arrest wanted extremists. Dangerous groups should be banned when the law allows it. There should be more counseling to help people leave extremist circles. Attacks on the power grid should be solved.

The Greens want right-wing crimes to be examined for political motives from the very start. Agencies are to cooperate better, with clear responsibilities and organized knowledge transfer. The background is the series of right-wing attacks in Neukölln, which the program says was not pursued consistently.

For years there were right-wing attacks in Neukölln. The Greens say the authorities did not investigate well enough. That should not happen again. Agencies should work together better. Even with small crimes, they should check for a political motive.

The Greens want to split the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) into two pillars: an independent institute working from public sources and an intelligence service clearly separated from police work. An oversight law is to strengthen parliament's rights. The party rejects routine intelligence checks on applicants for public service jobs.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence service. The Greens want to rebuild it. An independent institute should study public information. The intelligence service should focus on serious threats. Parliament should have more control over it. People applying for government jobs should not be checked automatically.

The Greens call for a citywide strategy linking security and social policy. It combines social measures, better quality of public spaces and police presence. The program argues that social problems can only be solved by social means.

The Greens want a plan for places with many problems. There should be more social help there. Public squares should be cleaner and nicer. Police should be easy to approach. The Greens say police alone cannot solve social problems.

The Greens want to prioritize the fight against organized crime and pool resources. Investigators are to follow the money and confiscate illegally acquired assets, including real estate. A real estate register is to reveal the actual beneficial owners.

The Greens want to do more against criminal gangs. Investigators should follow the gangs' money. The state should take away illegal money and buildings. A register should show who really owns a building. Police should not treat anyone unfairly because of their origin.

The Greens want to create a bike theft investigation unit at the state criminal police office with responsibility for all of Berlin. Places with many thefts are to see far more targeted operations. The program points to about 25,000 reported cases a year and a clearance rate below five percent.

About 25,000 bikes are stolen in Berlin every year. Police solve very few cases. The Greens want a special police unit against bike theft. It should work for the whole city. Places with many thefts should get more police operations.

The Greens want to better equip security agencies to fight cybercrime, digital espionage and online hate crime. They also plan a strategy against disinformation, a cybersecurity strategy for the Berlin government and a Berlin IT security law. Digital crime is not to be treated as secondary.

Crime also happens online. The Greens want police and courts to fight it better. There should be a plan against false news. A new law should set firm rules for safe computer systems in Berlin. Big internet companies should face stricter control.

The Greens want to revise the disaster protection law, coordinate crisis teams centrally and systematically secure critical infrastructure. A digital platform is to bring in volunteer helpers. The program cites two attacks on the power grid and what it sees as unclear responsibilities.

Berlin should be better prepared for crises. These include power outages, heat, heavy rain and cyberattacks. The Greens want to update the disaster protection law. It should be clear who is in charge in a crisis. A website should bring volunteer helpers together.

The Greens want to push at the federal level so that no one is jailed for being unable to pay a fine. Petty offenses such as riding public transit without a ticket would no longer be crimes. The platform argues that prosecuting such acts burdens the justice system and that poverty must not lead to prison.

Some people cannot pay their fine. Today they have to go to prison instead. The Greens want to end this. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. The Greens say that poor people need help, not prison.

The Greens want to put the reintegration of prisoners back at the center of the prison system and expand open prisons. In the platform's view, only rehabilitation protects society from crime in the long run. Loss of liberty is said to be punishment enough, and prison conditions should be up to date.

Prisoners should be able to live without crime after prison. So the Greens want more open prisons. In an open prison, prisoners have more freedom. Prisoners should also get more education and support. The Greens say this protects society best.

The Greens want everyone who lives, works, or studies in Berlin to belong and to have a say. Passport, origin, or residence status should not matter for this. The platform sees it as an opportunity for the city when newcomers settle in successfully.

The Greens say: Everyone in Berlin belongs. The passport should not matter. People without a German passport should also have a say. The Greens want to make policy for these people too.

The Greens want to carry out urban planning together with the districts and residents and to expand participation procedures. Climate protection, climate adaptation and affordable rents are to become the guiding principle of urban development.

The Greens want to plan the city together with the people. People should have a say. Plans should be easy to understand. Climate protection and affordable rents matter most here.

The Greens want to simplify the rules for public grants and allow multi-year funding so that initiatives can plan ahead. The volunteer card is to be expanded. Voluntary service programs are to get more places and higher pocket money.

The Greens want to support volunteering. Groups should be able to get money for several years. Then they can plan better. Young people in voluntary service should get more pocket money. They ride buses and trains for free.

The Greens want to keep the state's land and infrastructure permanently in public hands and continue buying land strategically. A privatization brake in the state constitution and a land protection law are meant to secure this legally.

Berlin should keep its land and facilities. The Greens want to rule out selling them. This should be written into Berlin's constitution. Berlin should also keep buying land. When land is awarded, the best idea should count, not the highest price.

The Greens want people with an East German background to be better represented in leadership positions and view this background as a dimension of diversity. At the same time, civil society, youth participation, and prevention of far-right youth violence are to be strengthened.

People from East Germany should get important positions more often. So far they are rare there. The Greens want to collect better data on this. Children should have a say early, for example in class councils from first grade. Youth clubs should get enough money for the long term.

The Greens want Berlin to be able to abolish the Staatsleistungen (regular state payments to the churches); the federal government is to create the legal basis for this. Leaving the church in Berlin is to be free of charge and possible online in the future.

The state pays the churches money every year. The Greens want to end these payments. The federal government has to pass a law first. People who leave the church should not pay a fee. Leaving should also be possible online.

The Greens want a state law on promoting democracy to secure the work of associations, initiatives and migrant organizations for the long term. They also want to strengthen the state agency for civic education and make parliament, the constitutional court and the district assemblies more resilient.

Many groups work to support democracy. The Greens want a new law to fund them for the long term. Civic education should get stronger. Parliament and the constitutional court should be better protected.

The Greens want everyone whose life is centered in Berlin to be able to vote in elections and referendums, even without a German passport. The program regards the exclusion of nearly one million people as a structural democratic deficit.

Almost one million people in Berlin have no German passport. So they are not allowed to vote. The Greens want to change that. People who live in Berlin should be able to vote.

The Greens want to lower the voting age at state and district level from 16 to 14. Children's and youth parliaments with their own rights are to be made possible in all districts and at state level.

In Berlin, people can vote from age 16. The Greens want people to vote from age 14. There should also be parliaments for children and teenagers. They could then speak and make proposals.

The Greens want to expand direct democracy in Berlin and introduce an optional referendum. It would let citizens veto a change by parliament to a law that was passed by popular vote.

The Greens want people in Berlin to have more say. Sometimes parliament changes a law that the people voted for. Then people should be able to vote on it again. Votes in the districts should be binding.

The Greens want Germany's Federal Constitutional Court to rule on a ban of the AfD. The platform bases this on the domestic intelligence agency's classification of the party as confirmed right-wing extremist and on a rise in hate crime.

The Greens want a court to check a ban of the AfD. Germany's highest court should decide. The domestic intelligence agency calls the AfD right-wing extremist. The Greens say this must have consequences.

The Greens want to give children and teens more of a say. Children's and youth councils would get voting rights and the right to submit motions in all twelve district assemblies, and the UN children's rights would be written into Berlin's constitution.

Children and teens should have more of a say. Their councils should be able to make proposals and vote in the district assemblies. The children's rights of the United Nations should be in Berlin's constitution. All of Berlin should become a child-friendly city.

The Greens want to give older people more political weight and would revise the law on seniors' participation to do so. They also want to fight age discrimination, make it easier to keep working in the public administration, and promote learning in later life.

The Greens want older people to have more say. Their representatives should be allowed to speak in district committees. They should get money for travel and expenses. The Greens also want to act against unfair treatment because of age. Older people should be able to keep learning, for example on computers.

The Greens want everyone in Berlin to be able to assert their rights on equal terms. According to the platform, people with little money are at a disadvantage because they often cannot afford legal counsel. Legal aid for advice and court costs is to become easier to obtain, and the courts' legal application offices are to be expanded.

The Greens want everyone to have the same chances in court. Many people with little money cannot pay a lawyer. They should get help with the costs more easily. The courts should offer more advice, also in several languages.

The Greens want the justice system to deal more openly with its own mistakes and to reduce wrongful verdicts. To that end, evidence is to be kept longer and the appeals courts are to be strengthened.

Courts sometimes make mistakes too. The Greens want the justice system to learn from mistakes. Evidence should be kept longer. Experts should study why wrong verdicts happen.

Because many justice system employees will soon retire, the Greens want to recruit more staff. Work is to become more family-friendly, and lateral entry and promotion are to become easier. Where qualifications are equal, applicants with a migration background are to be given preference in hiring.

Many people in the justice system will retire soon. So the Greens want to win new staff. Work should fit better with family life. People from other jobs should be able to join more easily. Judges should have to take training courses.

The Greens want to largely abolish the justice administration's right to issue instructions to public prosecutors. At the same time, lay judges would have to commit to the free democratic basic order, and applicants would be systematically screened. Courts are to be made resilient against anti-democratic forces.

Today the justice administration can give orders to prosecutors. The Greens want to largely end this. Lay judges are volunteer judges. They should have to commit to democracy. The Greens want to check people who apply for this role. This should keep extremists from becoming judges.

The Greens want to implement Berlin's already adopted administrative reform. The Senate departments are to handle citywide steering, while the boroughs carry out services and steer at the borough level. The administration is to see itself as a service provider and deliver its services without discrimination.

Berlin has passed a reform of its administration. The Greens now want to put it into practice. It should be clear who is responsible for what. The Senate should plan for the whole city. The boroughs should do the work on the ground. Offices should treat all people equally well.

The Greens want to further develop the Bezirksverordnetenversammlungen, the elected assemblies of Berlin's districts. More of their resolutions are to be binding. It should also become clearer who in the district administration is responsible for which policy.

Each Berlin district has an elected district assembly. The Greens want to make these assemblies stronger. More of their decisions should be binding. The district office would then have to follow them. People should see more clearly who is responsible for what.

The Greens want to keep the state of Berlin's workforce at the level built up by 2023 and plan staffing needs strategically. Berlin is to become a more attractive employer, among other things through more participation, development opportunities and modern equipment. The Landesverwaltungsamt (state administrative office) is to become the central HR service provider.

Berlin needs enough people in its public offices. The Greens want to keep the number of staff stable. They want to plan carefully where staff is needed. Berlin should be a good employer. One office should handle staff matters for all agencies.

The Greens want to attract more young people to the public service through a training drive. Dual vocational training, dual degree programs and trainee programs are to be expanded. The party also wants to tackle housing for employees.

The public offices need young people. The Greens want more training places in the public service. Dual study programs and trainee programs should grow too. Students should be able to do more internships in agencies. Staff should find housing more easily.

The Greens want to push in Brussels for a social and climate-neutral Europe and use the next EU budget framework for Berlin projects. The administration, businesses and civil society should become able to draw down all available EU money.

The EU gives money for projects in the regions. The Greens want to use this money better for Berlin. It should go to climate protection, research and transport links. The city offices should learn how to claim all of the money.

The Greens want to make it easier for people from other European countries to get started in Berlin. Qualifications are to be recognized faster, dealings with authorities made simpler and digital, and the administration is to build up more expertise on Europe.

Many people from other European countries live in Berlin. The Greens want to make settling in easier for them. Offices should recognize their job qualifications faster. There should be enough language courses. Offices should work in a simpler and digital way.

The Greens want to strengthen Berlin's city partnerships and focus them on topics such as climate protection, protecting democracy, resilience and future technologies. Berlin is to learn from other cities and countries. Partnerships with cities in the Global South and the state's development cooperation are to grow.

Berlin has partner cities around the world. The Greens want to strengthen these partnerships. Berlin should learn from other cities, for example on transport. There should be more partnerships with cities in poorer countries. Berlin should support more development projects.

The Greens want Berlin to permanently support exchange with democratic initiatives and pro-European movements abroad. Democracy is to be at the center of the city's international cooperation. According to the platform, those involved should learn from and support one another.

The Greens want to support groups abroad that work for democracy. Berlin should stay in contact with them. This applies to Ukraine, Taiwan and Georgia, for example. Everyone should learn from each other.

The Greens want Berlin to use its sister-city ties to stand up for civil and human rights worldwide and to lead an alliance of democratic actors. At the same time, the city should be more careful when working with partners from authoritarian states.

Berlin has partner cities in other countries. The Greens want Berlin to speak up for human rights there. Berlin should support queer people in other cities. Berlin should be more careful with countries that are not democracies.

The Greens want to develop several sites so they can host large concerts, festivals and street festivals. Such events are to be run by the city itself on its own land wherever possible and be affordable for all Berliners.

The Greens want to bring big concerts to Berlin. Certain places should be improved for this. The city should run these places itself where possible. Tickets should be affordable for everyone.

The Greens want to secure clubs, small music venues and open-air formats for the long term because, in the party's view, they are threatened by rising costs, rents and displacement. The plan includes protection through planning law, dedicated funding and an emergency fund for venues at acute risk.

The Greens want to protect Berlin's clubs. Many clubs struggle with high rents and costs. Clubs should get public funding. There should be an emergency fund for clubs in trouble.

The Greens want to support Berlin's games industry because they see video games as part of the cultural and creative economy and as a driver of digitalization. Plans include better training paths, new trade fair formats and media literacy programs.

The Greens want to strengthen the games industry in Berlin. There should be more training for these jobs. New trade fairs should make games from Berlin better known. People should learn to handle games well. This should protect against addiction and extremism.

The Greens want creatives and cultural workers to be paid adequately and to share in the revenue from their works. When AI is used, personality rights, copyright and usage rights are to be protected, for which the platform envisions more regulation and stronger media oversight.

Many artists in Berlin earn little. The Greens want them to be paid fairly. Large platforms should share their profits with them. Their rights should also apply when artificial intelligence is used. Media oversight should become stronger.

The Greens consider reckoning with the SED dictatorship still necessary and want to preserve sites of remembrance. In addition, the period after 1989 is to receive more attention, including far-right violence, the Treuhand privatization agency, and mass unemployment.

The Greens want to keep remembering the East German dictatorship. Important places should be preserved. These include the SEZ and the former Stasi headquarters. The years after the fall of the Wall should also get more attention. Back then there was a lot of far-right violence and many people had no work.

The Greens want a culture funding law that secures Berlin's cultural landscape for the long term. They also want binding minimum fees for artists and more money for the independent scene from the City Tax. The platform cites cuts by the current coalition and precarious working conditions in culture.

The Greens want a law for funding culture. It should secure theaters, museums and artists for the long term. Artists should get a minimum fee. The independent arts scene should get money from the tax on hotel stays.

The Greens want to reverse the cuts to the Arbeitsraumprogramm (workspace program for artists) and create more studios, rehearsal rooms and cultural venues. Culture is to become a fixed part of urban development and public real estate policy. The platform cites rising rents and displacement.

Artists need rooms to work and rehearse. Many can no longer pay the rent. The Greens want to create more of these rooms. City-owned buildings should be used for this.

The Greens want Berlin's cultural sector to become climate-neutral as well. This is to apply above all to institutions with high greenhouse gas emissions.

Berlin should stop harming the climate. This should also apply to theaters and museums. The Greens want to set up programs for this. For example, buildings should use less energy.

The Greens want basic cultural services in every borough, including outside the S-Bahn ring. These include libraries, music schools, youth art schools and children's theaters. Cultural education is to become a required task for all publicly funded cultural institutions.

Everyone in Berlin should have culture close to home. This includes libraries, music schools and theaters for children. Teachers at music schools should get permanent jobs. Students should be able to visit cultural places four times a year.

The Greens want to bring back the free-admission Museum Sunday and extend it step by step. In the platform's view, taking part in culture should not depend on money. For young adults, Berlin is to develop a replacement for the federal KulturPass, which was cut.

Culture should not depend on money. The Greens want to bring back Museum Sunday with free entry. Later, more museums should be free all the time. Young adults should get their own offer from the state.

The Greens want to secure memorial sites and remembrance initiatives and fund their educational work. This ranges from remembering the victims of National Socialism and reckoning with the East German dictatorship to queer history. In the platform's view, remembrance culture grows from the bottom up.

The Greens want to support memorial sites. These places remember the victims of the Nazi era, for example. The East German dictatorship should also be remembered. There should be an archive for queer history.

The Greens want to continue addressing Berlin's colonial history and implement the "Kolonialismus erinnern" (remembering colonialism) concept step by step. Looted art and human remains are to be returned more easily, and streets with tainted names renamed more easily. The platform sees Berlin as bearing historical responsibility for the genocide of the Herero and Nama.

Germany once had colonies. Many wrongs were done there. The Greens want to remember this and create a place for learning. Stolen art should be easier to give back.

The Greens want to defend press freedom, expand rights of access to information, and protect journalists from lawsuits meant to intimidate them. Media workers and creatives are to get better social protection and a larger share of the revenue their work generates.

The Greens want to protect press freedom. Journalists should get information more easily. Nobody should scare them with lawsuits. They should also earn more and have better social protection.

The Greens want attractive and independent public broadcasting and intend to keep following the ongoing reform. The regional broadcaster rbb should reflect the diversity of Berlin and its surrounding area in its programming.

The Greens want strong public TV and radio. These stations should stay independent. The Berlin station rbb should show how diverse Berlin is. The stations should have enough money.

The Greens want to rework film funding in Berlin and give more weight to women, East Germans and BIPoC. Movie theaters are to be preserved as cultural venues across the city wherever possible.

The Greens want to improve funding for films. Women, East Germans and people of color should get more support. Young filmmakers should get more help. Movie theaters should stay open all over the city.

The Greens want to expand consumer protection in Berlin and fund the Verbraucherzentrale (consumer advice center) on a lasting basis. People are to receive understandable information about products and services and be able to make informed decisions themselves.

The Greens want to protect customers better. The consumer advice center will get reliable funding. People get advice there about purchases and contracts. Schools will teach more about money, advertising and debt.

The Greens want to make sports accessible to everyone in Berlin and treat sports facilities as part of basic public services. Certain groups are to receive targeted support, gyms and pools are to be renovated or newly built, and coaches are to be paid better.

The Greens want everyone in Berlin to be able to do sports. Broken gyms and swimming pools will be repaired. Girls, women, children and people with disabilities will get more programs. Coaches will get more pay. All children should be able to learn to swim.

The Greens want to attach conditions to major sports events in Berlin. By 2030 they are to be climate-neutral and respect human rights, and organizers are to share in the public costs they cause.

The Greens want clear rules for big sports events. By 2030 the events should no longer harm the climate. Organizers should help pay for security and traffic. They should get no tax breaks. Sports for everyone should not lose money because of this.

The Greens want to limit advertising for sports betting and do more to educate people about the dangers of gambling. At the same time, esports and gaming are to be supported through nonprofit structures as part of youth culture.

The Greens want less advertising for sports betting. Schools will talk more about the dangers of gambling. Nonprofit clubs will not be allowed to advertise gambling. Esports will get support. Esports means people play video games as a competition.

The Greens reject Berlin's ongoing bid to host the Olympic Games. The platform cites environmental damage, financial risk, and social effects such as rising rents and displacement.

Berlin wants to host the Olympic Games. The Greens are against this. They say the Games cost a lot of money. They harm the environment. And rents may go up.

The Greens want a citywide network of sports facilities that are accessible and climate-neutral. Every district is to get at least three inclusive sports facilities, and freely accessible sports areas are to be expanded.

The Greens want more sports facilities in Berlin. People with disabilities should be able to use them well. Every district should get at least three such facilities. The facilities should not harm the climate. There should also be more free outdoor sports areas.

The Greens want every child in Berlin to learn to swim and every district to have renovated, accessible pools. They plan a pool-building push with new construction and reopenings, especially in underserved districts.

Every child in Berlin should learn to swim. The Greens want to build new pools for this. Closed pools should open again. Marzahn-Hellersdorf should get an outdoor pool. There should be more swimming classes, also during school breaks.

The Greens back the aim of the "Berlin werbefrei" (ad-free Berlin) citizens' initiative to regulate commercial advertising in public space more tightly. They argue that advertising affects everyone and therefore needs binding rules.

The Greens want stricter rules for ads in the city. They support the citizens' initiative "Berlin werbefrei" on this. They reject large ads on scaffolding in front of apartment windows. Ads should not put anyone down.

The Greens want to gradually redesign Berlin so that older people can get around and spend time outdoors comfortably in daily life. This includes joining a World Health Organization network, more public toilets and seating, accessible housing and a discounted Deutschlandticket.

The Greens want to make Berlin better for older people. There should be more shaded benches and drinking fountains. There should be good public toilets in every neighborhood. People with little money should get a cheaper Deutschlandticket. It should be easier to adapt apartments so they have no barriers.