Grüne: program for the 2025 federal election

The Greens want the German economy to grow in a climate-neutral, sustainable and innovative way while staying competitive. Businesses are to get simpler rules along with reliable goals.

The Greens want an economy that protects the climate. The economy should still grow. Companies should get simpler rules. The goals set by politics should stay reliable.

The Greens want to cut red tape, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. The so-called Praxischeck (practice check) would be extended to all sectors, and rules would be reviewed regularly. Social and environmental protection standards are to stay in place.

The Greens want less red tape for companies. Red tape means many forms and complicated rules. Experts and affected people would look for needless rules together. Protection for people and nature would stay.

The Greens want to give companies that invest in Germany a bonus worth ten percent of the investment for five years. It would apply to all firms and all investments except buildings. The aim is to ease the tax burden on private investment.

Companies would get money when they invest in Germany. They get ten percent of the sum back. This would last five years. It does not apply to buildings.

The Greens want to make it easier for young companies to get private capital and to simplify founding a business. In the platform's view, financing is a major weakness compared with the US and China. Germany and Europe are said to need a new startup culture.

The Greens want to help young companies. These companies should get money from investors more easily. Starting a company should become simpler and digital. Founders would get advice in one place.

The Greens want to make it easier to found companies, especially out of academia. Researchers would be able to take unpaid leave to start a business, and employees would more easily get a share in their company's success.

The Greens want to help new companies. Researchers can take a break from their job to start a company. They get no pay during that time. Workers should get shares in their company more easily.

The Greens want more support for research, development and production in key technologies so that Germany catches up with the leading countries. In the program's view, future prosperity depends on this.

The Greens want to support important new technology. This includes AI, microchips and batteries. Germany should be among the best countries here. This should secure good jobs.

The Greens want to improve conditions for skilled trades, small businesses and solo self-employed people. The Meisterbrief (master craftsman certificate) would become free, and the self-employed would get clearer rules and better social protection.

The Greens want to help the skilled trades. The master craftsman certificate should cost nothing. Trainees should get a minimum wage in each sector. People who work alone for themselves should be better protected.

The Greens want to develop competition law further to better protect small and mid-sized companies and consumers from monopolies. Large platforms should not be able to extend their market power into further lines of business.

The Greens want stricter rules for very large companies. Big internet platforms should not become even more powerful. Small companies and customers should be better protected. Platforms should be responsible for their products like a shop.

The Greens want a comprehensive overhaul of the rules for public contracts. Sustainable procurement would become simpler and the norm, while municipalities and companies would face less administrative effort.

The state buys many things and awards contracts. The Greens want to make the rules for this simpler. The state should usually buy in an eco-friendly way. Small companies should still get contracts easily.

The Greens want to create a new legal form for companies whose assets stay locked in the business. It is meant to give family firms and start-ups another succession option; in addition, public-benefit companies would get more support.

The Greens want to allow a new kind of company. Its money stays in the company. This should help when a company needs new owners. Companies that serve the common good should get more support.

The Greens want to expand the joint federal-state program for regional economic development so that rural areas also stay economically strong. They want to accompany structural change in the coal regions with investment and involve local people.

The Greens want more support for weaker regions. There should be good jobs in rural areas too. Coal regions should get new roads, rail, research and companies. People there should have a say.

The Greens want new trade partnerships to open markets and reduce dependencies. Agreements should, however, contain enforceable social and environmental standards, which in the party's view protect against a race to the bottom.

The Greens want more trade with many countries. This way Germany depends less on single countries. The agreements should contain firm rules. The rules protect workers, the climate and nature.

The Greens want to transpose the EU supply chain directive into German law with little bureaucracy. In the party's view, it ensures that products sold in Europe are made without exploitation and child labor.

The EU has passed rules for supply chains. Companies must check how their goods are made. There should be no child labor and no exploitation. The Greens want to put these rules into practice in Germany in a simple way.

The Greens want to protect European industry against what they see as unfair trade practices. This includes countervailing duties, a more effective carbon border adjustment, stricter customs rules for online retailers and protection of key sectors from takeovers.

The Greens want to protect companies in Europe from unfair trade. Some foreign goods should face tariffs, for example steel. Online sellers like Temu should not be able to get around customs. Important sectors should be protected from buyouts.

The Greens want everyday life to stay affordable. To that end, electricity is to become cheaper and mobility affordable.

The Greens want daily life to be affordable. Electricity should get cheaper. Buses, trains and travel should be affordable. Rents should stay affordable too.

The Greens want to ease the shortage of workers and skilled staff by enabling more people in Germany to work. Vocational training and continuing education would be strengthened, older people would get incentives to work longer, and people with disabilities would find work more easily.

Germany lacks many workers. The Greens want to make job training more attractive. People who want to learn new job skills would get help. Older people would get benefits if they work longer. People with disabilities would find work more easily.

The Greens want to raise the statutory minimum wage to an initial 15 euros in 2025 and increase it step by step after that. It would also apply to minors. The platform justifies this with the inflation of recent years.

The Greens want a higher minimum wage. It should first be 15 euros per hour. After that it should keep rising. It should also apply to workers under 18.

The Greens want more employees to be paid under collective agreements, which the platform says brings higher pay and better working conditions. It should become easier to declare agreements binding for whole sectors, and larger federal contracts should go only to companies that pay collectively agreed wages.

The Greens want more collective agreements. A collective agreement sets pay and working conditions for many workers. The federal government should give big contracts only to firms that pay these wages. Pay in East and West Germany should also become equal.

The Greens want to give works councils and other employee representatives more rights. In the platform's view, co-determination builds trust and acceptance, especially when companies are undergoing change.

The Greens want workers to have more say at work. Works councils should help decide on more topics. New works councils should be easier to set up. Elections should also be possible online.

The Greens want to crack down on bogus self-employment, abuse of contracts for work, and undeclared work. They reject fixed-term contracts without objective grounds and longer working hours, and want time recording regulated by law.

The Greens want to protect workers better. They oppose undeclared work and fake self-employment. Contracts should not be limited in time without a reason. Working hours should not get longer. Companies should record working hours digitally.

The Greens want to reform the special labor law that applies to churches. Exemptions for churches in two laws would be removed, and unions would have more say in church-run workplaces.

Special rules apply today to churches as employers. The Greens want to change these rules. Exceptions for churches in two laws should end. Unions should have more say. Nothing changes for preaching and pastoral work.

The Greens want to gradually replace mini-jobs with employment covered by social insurance. In the platform's view, mini-jobs act as a part-time trap, especially for women, and worsen old-age poverty and labor shortages.

The Greens want to change mini-jobs step by step. Mini-jobs should become jobs with social insurance. Then people are better protected. Some groups can keep mini-jobs.

The Greens want to keep Bürgergeld (citizen's income) and adjust it regularly so that it covers the minimum needed to live and take part in society. Training and support should keep priority over quick job placement.

The Greens want to keep Bürgergeld. This is basic income support. The amount should be adjusted regularly. It should always be enough to live and take part in society. Job centers should help people with training and counseling.

The Greens want welfare benefits to be simpler, more standardized and paid out automatically where possible. At the same time, extra work should pay off more for benefit recipients, and self-employed people should get easier access to unemployment insurance.

The Greens want to make the welfare system simpler. People should have to fill out fewer forms. Those who work more should end up with more money. Self-employed people should find it easier to insure against job loss.

The Greens want to write accessibility into law for all areas of life and make it easier to enforce. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities serves as the benchmark. A parliamentary study commission on inclusion is to draw up comprehensive proposals.

The Greens want accessibility everywhere. That means everyone can use things without barriers. Federal buildings should be barrier-free within ten years. Shops and services should also take care of this. A commission should make proposals.

The Greens want to gradually convert sheltered workshops for people with disabilities into inclusive companies. There, people with and without disabilities would work together and earn at least the minimum wage. The goal is for people with disabilities to earn their living in the regular labor market.

Many people with disabilities work in special workshops. The Greens want to change these workshops step by step. Everyone should work together there. Everyone should get at least the minimum wage. Companies should hire more people with disabilities.

The Greens want to make Eingliederungshilfe (integration assistance for people with disabilities) simpler and faster to access. People should decide for themselves where and how they live. Support should not depend on income or assets.

People with disabilities get help from the state. The Greens want to make this help simpler. Applications should be fast and digital. The help should not depend on a person's own money. Everyone should decide for themselves where to live.

The Greens want to secure the statutory pension level at no less than 48 percent for the long term. The Grundrente (basic pension supplement) would become a guaranteed pension that applies after 30 years of insurance and reaches more people. Good wages and a broad base of contributors are meant to fund pensions.

The Greens want to keep pensions stable. The pension level should stay at 48 percent or more. People insured for 30 years should get a guaranteed pension. This should prevent poverty in old age. More people should pay into the pension system.

The Greens want to gradually turn the statutory pension into a citizens' insurance (Bürgerversicherung) that additional groups pay into. According to the platform, this would make old-age provision fairer and sustainable.

The Greens want one pension insurance for everyone. Members of parliament should pay in too. Self-employed people without other coverage should join. Later, civil servants should also be included.

The Greens want to leave the standard retirement age at 67 but make voluntarily working longer more attractive. The early pension for people with very long contribution records would stay, and the disability pension would be improved.

The Greens want to keep the retirement age at 67. People who want to work longer should get benefits. The so-called pension at 63 should stay. People who are too sick to work should get more support.

The Greens want to set up a publicly managed citizens' fund that adds a funded component to the statutory pension. The fund would also be open for private and workplace retirement savings and would invest according to social and climate criteria.

The Greens want to start a fund for pensions. A fund invests money to earn returns. The state would run this fund. The money would come from the federal government, not from pension contributions. Citizens could also save there cheaply for old age.

The Greens want to make sustainable financing easier and the rules for it more consistent and simpler. Government investments would follow sustainability criteria and the Paris climate goals. In the platform's view, sustainable finance makes fossil investments uneconomical and future technologies cheaper.

The Greens want more money to flow into green projects. The state should invest its own money only in climate-friendly ways. The rules for this should become simpler. Companies should not be allowed to falsely call products green.

The Greens want better protection for consumers in financial matters, especially small investors. The financial regulator BaFin is to focus more on consumer protection and sustainability, and the cost of payments is to come down.

The Greens want to protect people better in money matters. The finance regulator should look out more for customers. Advice about money should be fair and independent. Very high interest rates should get a limit.

The Greens want to set up a Deutschlandfonds (Germany Fund) for the federal government, states, and municipalities to catch up on infrastructure investment. The platform describes the balanced-budget policy known as the 'schwarze Null' as a burden on the country's future viability.

The Greens want to create a Germany Fund. A fund is a large pot of money. The state should use the money to build rail lines and fix schools. Research and companies should also get money.

The Greens want to change the Schuldenbremse (debt brake) so that the state may borrow as much as it invests. In the platform's view, the current rule blocks investment and measures that would revive the economy.

The Greens want to change the debt brake. The debt brake limits how much debt the state may take on. The state should be allowed to borrow more for investments. But the debt should stay manageable.

The Greens want to set clearer priorities in the budget and align it with measurable goals. Tax loopholes are to be closed, and subsidies that harm the climate and environment are to be phased out in a socially balanced way.

The Greens want the state to spend its money in a more targeted way. Gaps in tax law should be closed. The state should stop paying for things that harm the climate. This should happen in a socially fair way.

The Greens want to gradually remove state benefits for behavior that harms the climate and the environment. The money freed up is to go to social compensation and to climate and environmental protection.

The state spends money on things that harm the climate. The Greens want to end this step by step. The money saved should help people and the climate. First they want to change the rules for company cars.

The Greens want to overhaul the inheritance tax, push for a global billionaire tax and close gaps in the tax system. The platform justifies this with what it sees as a very unequal distribution of wealth in Germany.

The Greens want higher taxes on very large inheritances. Each person would get one tax-free amount for their whole life. The home you live in stays tax-free. Billionaires should pay a tax worldwide. Big companies should pay taxes where they make profits.

The Greens want to raise the standard deduction for employees to at least 1,500 euros and make filing taxes simpler. Many pensioners would no longer have to file a return at all.

Employees can deduct a flat amount for work costs from their taxes. This amount should rise to at least 1,500 euros. Then many people no longer need to collect receipts. Many pensioners would no longer have to file a tax return. Filing should be possible in an app.

The Greens want to introduce tax credits to relieve people on low incomes, single parents and those topping up wages with benefits. Working more hours should then always lead to noticeably more income.

People with low incomes should get a tax credit. This is money the tax office credits to them. They would need to fill out fewer forms. People who work more should also have more money. Saving should get more support too.

The Greens want to simplify the value-added tax and remove outdated exemptions. The reform is meant to leave total government revenue unchanged.

The value-added tax has many special rules. The Greens want to remove old special rules. The tax should become simpler. The state should take in the same amount of money as before.

The Greens want to give cities and towns more funding and relieve heavily indebted municipalities through a legacy debt fund paid for by the federal government and the states. Mandatory tasks delegated to municipalities are to be fully funded. The platform cites an investment backlog of 186 billion euros in municipal infrastructure.

Many cities and towns have too little money. Some have large old debts. The federal government and the states should help with these debts. Towns should get more money directly. They should decide for themselves what they need it for.

The Greens want to crack down harder on money laundering, tax evasion and financial market manipulation. The federal government would get more capacity for this, and financial supervision would be strengthened. The platform argues that these offenses cost the economy billions.

Some people cheat on taxes. Others hide money from crimes. The Greens want to go after this more. Federal agencies should get more resources for it.

The Greens want to make housing more affordable. To do so, rent increases are to be limited and social housing construction supported.

The Greens want housing to cost less. Rents should not rise so fast. The state should support low-cost homes. There should be a plan for enough homes.

The Greens want to limit rent increases more strongly. The Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) would be extended with fewer exemptions, and rent freezes would become possible in tight housing markets.

Many people pay more and more rent. The Greens want stricter limits on rents. The rent brake should last longer and be stricter. In some places rents should not rise at all. Tenants should no longer pay the property tax.

The Greens want to end homelessness by 2030 and further develop the National Action Plan for this purpose. In the platform's view, having a home of one's own is a precondition for dignity and participation in society.

Some people have no home. The Greens want to change that by 2030. Homeless people should get a home first. No one should end up on the street after an eviction. Help should be open to everyone.

The Greens want to protect tenants better against termination of their leases and permanently restrict the conversion of rental apartments into condominiums. Swapping apartments is to become legally easier so that housing is used better.

The Greens want to protect tenants better from losing their home. This applies when owners want the home for themselves. It also applies when tenants owe rent. Tenants should know their rights better. People should be able to swap homes more easily.

The Greens want to make it easier to acquire a first owner-occupied home, which the platform says offers security, freedom and provision for old age. Young families in particular would get low-interest government loans, and the incidental costs of buying would fall.

The Greens want more people to be able to buy their own home. The state should give cheap loans. This helps young families most. Fees for brokers and notaries should go down.

The Greens want to create more housing mainly within existing buildings. To do so, building law would be simplified, procedures digitized and harmonized nationwide, and construction standards scaled back. Converting should become more attractive than demolishing and building new.

The Greens want more homes in buildings that already exist. For example in empty offices or under the roof. Building should become easier and cheaper. There should be less red tape.

The Greens want to prevent speculation in homes and building land. They plan public land funds, a land policy more oriented toward the common good, and limits on payouts by housing companies that let their buildings decay.

The Greens want to stop speculation with homes and land. The federal government should get its own land fund. Companies should look after their buildings. If not, they may pay out less profit. Tax tricks in property deals should end.

The Greens want to raise federal funding for social housing and give special support to non-profit and cooperative housing companies. Rent and occupancy restrictions on such housing would become permanent.

The Greens want to spend more money on social housing. These are cheap homes for people with little money. These homes should stay cheap for good. There should also be more homes without barriers.

The Greens want to focus subsidies for building and renovation on low and middle incomes and scale them by the energy saved. The renovation rate should rise significantly, and tenants should benefit from lower housing costs.

The Greens want to change the support for renovating homes. People with low incomes should get more money. People who save a lot of energy should also get more. More homes should be renovated each year. Tenants should benefit too.

The Greens want to write nationwide quality standards for daycare centers and family daycare into law and permanently raise federal funding. A package of measures is meant to recruit more staff, and daycare fees should depend on income.

The Greens want to spend more money on daycare. The same quality rules should apply to daycare across the country. There should be more daycare teachers. Daycare fees should depend on income. Companies should find it easier to create daycare places.

The Greens want to raise Kindergeld (child benefit) by law whenever the child tax allowance goes up. Later, relief through both routes is to be equal, so that every child gets the same support regardless of the parents' income.

Families get child benefit or save taxes through a child tax allowance. Parents with high incomes save more this way. The Greens want to change that. When the allowance goes up, child benefit should go up too. Later, all children should get the same amount.

The Greens want people on public benefits or low earnings to get prescribed contraceptives at no cost and without red tape. In the longer run this is to apply to everyone. The platform calls family planning a human right.

Contraceptives cost money. The Greens want people with little money to get them for free. This applies to products a doctor prescribes. Later, everyone should get them for free.

The Greens want to raise Elterngeld (parental allowance) to a minimum of 500 and a maximum of 2,400 euros. Parental leave is to be designed so that each parent can use at least one third of it. This is meant to encourage a more even split of family work.

Parents get a parental allowance after a birth. The Greens want to raise it. It should be at least 500 euros. It should be at most 2,400 euros. Both parents should share parental leave more fairly.

The Greens want to introduce two weeks of paid leave after a birth for fathers and co-mothers. They also want graduated maternity protection after miscarriages, maternity pay for self-employed women and a permanently higher entitlement to child sick pay.

After a birth, fathers and co-mothers should get two weeks off. They get money to replace their pay during that time. Self-employed women should also get money around the birth. Parents should be able to stay home longer when their child is sick.

The Greens want to lower single parents' risk of poverty, among other things with a tax credit and a higher maintenance advance. In addition, a Verantwortungsgemeinschaft (community of responsibility) is to let people take legally binding responsibility for one another outside marriage.

Many single parents have little money. The Greens want to help them with taxes. They should also get a higher maintenance advance. People who are not married should be able to care for each other in a legally binding way. This is called a community of responsibility.

The Greens want to create a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance) as soon as possible. Applications are to become simpler and increasingly automatic so that benefits reach all eligible children. The state is to inform families about their entitlements on its own initiative.

Many families do not claim money they are entitled to. The Greens therefore want to introduce a basic child allowance. Applications should become simpler. The state should tell parents on its own what money their child can get.

The Greens want to help municipalities build up child and youth work with a special program running for ten years. In addition, mental health services for young people at schools are to be expanded.

Many meeting places for children and teenagers no longer exist. The Greens want to give towns and cities money for them for ten years. Schools should offer more help with mental health problems. Counseling services should get enough money.

The Greens want to change family law so that rainbow families are no longer disadvantaged in parentage law. In the party's view, family is wherever people take responsibility for one another.

The Greens want to change family law. Two mothers should be treated the same as a mother and a father. Families with more than two parents should also get more rights. People should be able to care for each other without marriage. This should count in law.

The Greens want to strengthen daycare centers, schools and universities. They are meant to give all children and young people a good start in life.

The Greens want to improve daycare, schools and universities. Everyone should get a good chance in life. Education is very important for that.

The Greens want government and business together to spend clearly more than 3.5 percent of economic output on research and development. Support would go to basic research, applied research and the transfer into market-ready products. The platform sees innovation as decisive for the economy and for climate protection.

The Greens want more money for research. The state and companies together should spend more than today. Researchers should be able to test new technology more easily. Ideas should turn into products faster.

The Greens want to start a "Zukunftsinvestitionsprogramm Bildung" (future investment program for education) together with states and municipalities. It is meant to modernize school buildings, add staff and reach more schools beyond the existing Startchancen program.

The Greens want to invest a lot of money in schools. School buildings should be modern and without barriers. There should be more helpers at schools, such as social workers. Children should learn to read, write and do math well. They should also learn to use computers.

The Greens want to scrap the Kooperationsverbot, the constitutional rule that largely keeps the federal government from co-funding schools on a lasting basis. Education money should also be distributed more according to actual need.

Today the federal government can give schools money only within limits. This rule is called the cooperation ban. The Greens want to end it. Education money should go where it is needed most.

The Greens want continuous language support from daycare through vocational training and want integration to be a standard task of the education system. All children should be able to attend regular schools regardless of their language skills.

All children should learn German well. Support should start in daycare and continue in school. Every child should be able to go to a regular school. This also applies to children who speak little German. Fewer young people should leave school without a diploma.

The Greens want to raise the minimum pay for apprentices significantly and fund apprentice service organizations modeled on student services. A solidarity-based training levy is meant to encourage small and mid-sized firms to train.

Apprentices should get clearly more pay. There should be apprentice services that offer dorms and advice. Companies would pay into a shared fund. Companies that train apprentices get money from it. Young people should get better help choosing a job.

The Greens want BAföG (student and training aid) to cover living costs and be adjusted regularly as those costs rise. It should depend less on family income, and dorms would continue to be funded.

BAföG is state money for students and apprentices. It should rise regularly when life gets more expensive. Parents' income should count less. Siblings' income should no longer count at all. There should be more low-cost dorms.

The Greens want to renovate university buildings together with the states and make them climate-friendly. The federal-state agreements that fund higher education and research are to continue and be expanded.

Many university buildings are old or run-down. The Greens want to renew them together with the states. The buildings should become good for the climate. Universities should also get reliable funding.

The Greens want fewer academic staff on fixed-term contracts, especially after the doctorate. Permanent tasks are to be done by staff with permanent positions. The platform sees this as a condition for fair opportunities in academia.

Many researchers only have short-term contracts. The Greens want to change that. More researchers should get permanent jobs. Research work and family life should fit together better.

The Greens want to defend academic freedom: only scholarly standards are to decide who gets research funding. At the same time, international exchange for researchers and students is to become easier.

The Greens want to protect the freedom of research. Politicians should not decide which research gets money. Researchers from other countries should be able to come to Germany more easily. More people should be able to study abroad.

The Greens want to improve conditions for healthy eating because, as they describe it, diet-related diseases are especially common among socially disadvantaged people. Plans include protecting children from ads for unhealthy food, less sugar in soft drinks, and duties for retailers to pass food on.

The Greens want everyone to be able to eat well. Children should see fewer ads for unhealthy food. Soft drinks should have less sugar. Stores should not throw away good food but pass it on.

The Greens want to organize outpatient care better and strengthen family doctors as the first point of contact. Local services such as municipal care centers, health kiosks, and health regions are to be expanded. The goal is for patients to find the right treatment faster.

The Greens want to strengthen family doctors. They should be the first place sick people go. Towns and villages should get more health centers. These centers also offer advice. People should get appointments faster.

The Greens want to carry out the hospital reform already under way together with the states and adjust it where needed. Good basic and emergency care should be within reach everywhere, and specialized centers should deliver high quality. A reform of emergency care and ambulance services is to follow quickly.

The Greens want to continue the hospital reform. They will work with the states on this. Everyone should get fast help in an emergency. Ambulance services should also get better.

The Greens want key active ingredients for medicines to be made in Germany or Europe more often again. The platform cites unstable supply chains as the reason. Pharmacy funding is also to be reformed.

Important medicines often come from far away. Sometimes they run out. The Greens want more production in Germany and Europe. Pharmacies should also be paid in a new way.

The Greens want therapists, nurses, and paramedics to be allowed to treat patients more independently. A dedicated law on health professions is to secure quality and cover additional occupations.

Nurses and therapists should be allowed to decide more on their own. This also applies to paramedics. The Greens want a new law for this. It sets rules for health jobs.

The Greens want to promote maternity care nationwide and improve conditions for midwives. At the same time, every woman is to have access to abortion, which the platform sees as part of good medical care.

The Greens want good help with childbirth everywhere. Midwives should have better working conditions and fair pay. Every woman should be able to end a pregnancy if she wants. She should decide for herself.

The Greens support an opt-out system for organ donation. Under it, anyone who has not objected counts as a donor. The platform justifies this by saying many people on the waiting list die because organs are lacking.

Many sick people are waiting for an organ. Some die because there is none. The Greens want a new rule. If you do not say no, you count as a donor. Parliament should vote freely on this.

The Greens want to compensate people who cut their working hours to care for relatives for their lost income for a limited time. Care is also to stay affordable so that people needing care do not routinely depend on social assistance.

Many people care for family members. They work less and earn less. The Greens want to pay them money for some time. Their pension contributions should also be paid. Care should be affordable for everyone.

The Greens want to win back care workers who left the profession by offering better working conditions. These include more staff, more responsibility, and better career paths. According to the platform, hundreds of thousands would be willing to return.

Many care workers have left their jobs. The work was too much. The Greens want to bring them back. There should be more staff and better conditions. Care workers should have less paperwork.

The Greens want tasks that in their view do not belong to health and long-term care insurance to be funded more from tax revenue. This is meant to ease the contribution burden on insured people and employers.

Health and care insurance funds pay for some things that are not their job. The Greens want the state to pay more of this. The money would come from taxes. Contributions should then rise less.

The Greens want to orient health and long-term care more toward the common good and promote public and nonprofit providers. Financial investors are to have less influence. The platform sees profit orientation as a risk to the quality and safety of care.

Some companies want to earn a lot of money with clinics and care homes. The Greens see this as a danger to care. They want to limit the influence of such companies. People should know who owns a facility.

The Greens are aiming for a Bürgerversicherung (citizens' insurance) that also brings privately insured people into the solidarity-based funding system. In long-term care, a financial balance between statutory and private insurance is to be the first step. According to the platform, those with more should contribute more.

Today there is public and private health insurance. The Greens want one citizens' insurance. Then everyone pays into a shared system. People with a lot of money pay more. Income from investments should count too.

The Greens want to make prevention a task for every policy area. Makers of tobacco and alcohol are to pay more toward the resulting health costs, and advertising for these products is to be regulated more strictly.

The Greens want fewer people to get sick. Tobacco and alcohol harm health. The makers should pay more for the damage. There should be less advertising for them. Cigarette packs should no longer have logos.

The Greens want to create more therapy slots and crisis services so that people in mental health crises do not have to wait for months. A suicide prevention law is to be added. Children and teenagers are a particular focus.

Many people with mental health problems wait a long time for help. The Greens want more therapy places. There should be more help in a crisis. A new law should help prevent suicides. Children and teenagers should find help quickly.

The Greens want a health preparedness law (Gesundheitssicherstellungsgesetz) to make the health system better equipped for pandemics, disasters and military threats. They also want to expand heat protection, since the platform sees the climate crisis as creating new health risks.

The Greens want a new law for emergencies. Hospitals and doctors should be better prepared. This covers disease outbreaks, disasters and war. People should also be better protected from extreme heat.

The Greens still aim to allow cannabis sales in licensed specialty shops and are pushing for this at the European and international level. Drug policy should rely on help rather than prosecuting users, while police and customs are strengthened against organized trafficking.

The Greens want cannabis to be sold in special shops. These shops would need a license. This should shrink the illegal market. People with addictions should get more help. Police should focus on big dealers.

The Greens want to speed up and simplify labor immigration. Work visas could be applied for online through a single office, and foreign vocational qualifications would be recognized more easily. Refugees would also find it easier to take up work.

The Greens want more skilled workers to come from abroad. They could apply for their visa online. Degrees from other countries would be accepted more easily. Refugees would also be able to work more easily.

The Greens want a federal participation act and a participation council to improve the inclusion of people with a migration background. Public agencies are to open up interculturally in staffing and structure so that state institutions reflect society's diversity.

Many people in Germany have roots in other countries. The Greens want them to have more say. A new law and a council should help with this. More different kinds of people should work in government offices. Nobody should be treated unfairly in hiring.

The Greens want to give victims of human trafficking a secure right to stay, even if they do not testify in criminal proceedings. Women who suffer violence and whose residence depends on their partner are to be able to get a residence permit of their own.

Some people are taken away and exploited. This is called human trafficking. The victims should be allowed to stay safely in Germany. They do not have to testify in court for this. Some women may only stay because of their husband. If there is violence, they should get their own right to stay.

The Greens want to keep the reformed citizenship law and ease access to naturalization for additional groups. The party rejects revoking German citizenship, pointing to the Basic Law.

The Greens want to keep the new citizenship law. Single parents and people with disabilities should also become German more easily. No one should lose their German passport again. People with two passports should have equal rights.

The Greens want to treat refugee protection and labor migration as fundamentally separate, while shaping the option to switch from the asylum track to a work-based residence. The party regards the Chancenaufenthaltsrecht (opportunity residence right) as a model for further reforms. An expert body is to advise on migration policy.

Some people come as refugees. Others come to work. The Greens want to allow a switch between the two paths. This is called a change of track. Well-integrated people should be able to stay. Experts should advise the government.

The Greens want to give cities and counties more, and more reliable, funding for receiving refugees. This includes language and integration courses right after arrival, more counseling, and a preference for decentralized housing.

Many towns struggle to take in refugees well. The Greens want to give them more money. Refugees should be able to start German classes right away. There should also be more advice services.

The Greens want tools like the payment card for asylum seekers to cut red tape and not get in the way of integration. Benefits must not fall below the constitutionally protected subsistence minimum, and everyone should have easy access to health care.

Refugees often get their money on a payment card. The Greens want this card not to make life harder. No one should get less than the basics needed to live. Everyone should be able to see a doctor easily.

The Greens want to scrap existing work bans for refugees and speed up procedures. Work permits would count as granted after a short deadline unless the immigration office objects. The platform sees language and work as the main driver of integration.

Some refugees are not allowed to work today. The Greens want to end these bans. If the office does not say no quickly, the permit counts as given. Foreign degrees should be easier to get recognized.

The Greens want to keep the individual right to asylum and Germany's protection duties under international law. They reject tightening measures that in their view only burden people seeking protection and hinder integration, and they favor fast and fair procedures.

Germany has a right to asylum. The Greens want to keep this right. They are against stricter asylum rules. Procedures should be fast and fair.

The Greens want to keep allowing family members to join refugees in Germany and remove existing restrictions. The platform argues that parents and children need each other, including for integration.

Refugees should be able to bring their family to Germany. The Greens want to remove the limits on this. Procedures should be faster. Relatives should no longer need a German test before they enter.

Under the platform, anyone who has no right to stay after review and all appeals should leave quickly, with voluntary return taking priority. The Greens rule out deportations to war and crisis zones, while serious offenders who are required to leave should be returned first.

Not everyone can stay in Germany. People with no right to stay should leave quickly. Leaving by choice is best. No one should be sent to a country at war. Serious criminals should be sent back first.

The Greens want a common European migration policy in which people seeking protection are distributed among member states on a binding basis. The EU asylum reform (GEAS/CEAS) is to be implemented in Germany in line with fundamental and human rights, without additional limits on asylum.

European countries should share refugees fairly. This should be a duty for all. The EU's new asylum rules should respect human rights. No one should be pushed back unlawfully at the outer borders.

The Greens oppose moving asylum procedures to countries outside the EU. Applications from people who arrive in the EU should be examined on their merits there. In the party's view, such schemes cost a lot of money and fail in court.

Some want asylum claims checked in countries outside Europe. The Greens are against this. People who arrive in the EU should get a procedure here. Every case should be checked one by one.

The Greens want more agreements with countries of origin and transit that open legal routes for training, study and work. In return, partner countries would take back their own nationals who have no right to stay. The platform argues that more regulated migration reduces irregular migration.

Germany should make deals with other countries. People from there can then come legally to work or learn. In return, these countries take back people who may not stay. This should mean fewer dangerous journeys.

The Greens call for a European, state-coordinated sea rescue effort in the Mediterranean and want to keep funding civilian rescue groups until then. Humanitarian admission programs are to open safe routes to Germany for people at particular risk.

Many refugees drown in the Mediterranean. The Greens want European states to organize rescue together. Until then, private rescuers should get money. People in great danger should be able to enter safely.

The Greens call on the state interior ministers to stop all deportations to Iran and all deportations of Yazidis nationwide. The program justifies this with the situation of women's rights in Iran and the suffering Yazidis experienced at the hands of ISIS.

The Greens want Germany to stop deporting people to Iran. Yazidis should not be deported either. Yazidis are a religious group. The terror group ISIS persecuted them. The German states should decide this together.

The Greens want to replace Ehegattensplitting (joint income splitting for spouses) for newly married couples with individual taxation in which the basic allowance can be transferred to the partner. In the platform's view, today's rule keeps women out of paid work. Balancing family and work would also be made easier.

Married couples in Germany pay tax together today. The Greens want to change this for new marriages. Then each partner pays their own tax. Couples who are already married can keep the old rule.

The Greens want women to be able to enforce their right to equal pay in practice. Pay is to become more transparent and the rules easier to enforce in court. Employees should also have more say over their working hours.

Women often earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. Pay should be openly visible. Women should be able to sue for equal pay more easily. Workers should decide more about their own hours.

The Greens want to reform the Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (General Equal Treatment Act) and extend protection against discrimination, including by state bodies. Associations are to be allowed to sue, and counseling centers and the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency are to be strengthened.

A law protects people from unfair treatment. The Greens want to make this law stronger. It should cover more cases. People should have more time to complain. Associations should also be allowed to sue. The protection should also apply to government offices.

The Greens want to act against antisemitism regardless of who it comes from and to adequately fund the protection of Jewish communities. The platform points to the rise in antisemitic incidents after the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023.

Jewish people should live safely in Germany. The Greens want more money to protect Jewish communities. Authorities should pursue and record attacks on Jews. Schools and courses should teach about hatred of Jews. Older Jewish people should get more social security.

The Greens want a national strategy against anti-Muslim hostility and want to protect Muslim life in Germany. Antigypsyism is also to be fought, including through a state treaty with the Sinti and Roma, and national minorities are to receive lasting support.

Muslims often face rejection in Germany. The Greens want a plan against this. Sinti and Roma should also be better protected. The federal government should sign a treaty with them. Authorities should pursue and record attacks. Minorities should get money for their language and culture.

The Greens want to give people affected by domestic and gender-based violence, and their children, a legal right to protection and counseling. The federal government is to share the costs so that women's shelters, counseling centers, and safe housing are available everywhere free of charge.

Many women face violence at home. The Greens want to give them a right to protection. Their children should have this right too. There should be free women's shelters and counseling everywhere. The federal government should help pay for it. Offenders should not be allowed to come near victims.

The Greens want stricter inspections of prostitution venues and higher standards for operating licenses. The aim is to secure working conditions, self-determination and safety for those affected. Changes to the Prostituiertenschutzgesetz (Prostitute Protection Act) are to be discussed with an open outcome once its evaluation is available.

The Greens want stricter checks on brothels. The rules for a license should get tougher. Customs officers should get more powers to check. This should make work safer for prostitutes. There should also be more help for people who want to leave.

The Greens call for women's quotas on supervisory and executive boards of large companies and a parity law for Bundestag elections. Their reasoning is that women make up more than half the population but hold far less economic and political power.

The Greens want more women in top jobs. Large companies should have fixed quotas. A quota is a fixed share. The Bundestag should also have as many women as men. A new law should make this happen.

The Greens want to remove self-determined abortions from the criminal code. In the early phase of pregnancy, abortion would be lawful. The party regards control over one's own body as a fundamental right.

The Greens want to take abortion out of criminal law. Early in a pregnancy, abortion should be legal. Counseling should be voluntary. Health insurers should pay the costs. There should be enough clinics close to home.

The Greens want to add protection against discrimination based on sexual and gender identity to Article 3 of the Basic Law. The Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) is to be kept and the action plan "Queer leben" made permanent. The party cites rising violence and discrimination against queer people.

The Greens want to protect queer people better. Queer people include lesbian, gay and trans people. This protection should be written into the constitution. The Self-Determination Act should stay. Health insurers should pay for treatments for trans people.

The Greens want to make electricity permanently cheaper for companies. A Deutschlandfonds (Germany fund) would pay the fees for the long-distance transmission lines, and the electricity tax would fall to the lowest rate the EU allows. The platform calls a secure, clean and affordable energy supply a decisive factor for Germany as a business location.

The Greens want electricity to cost less. The state would pay the costs of the big power lines. The tax on electricity would drop a lot. This is meant to help companies in Germany.

The Greens reject rolling back the European Green Deal or weakening climate targets. Instead, it would be expanded into a Clean Industrial Deal with an industrial policy coordinated at the European level. The platform argues that future technologies need stable conditions.

The EU has a plan for more climate protection. It is called the Green Deal. The Greens want to keep this plan. Climate goals should not get weaker. The EU should help industry make the change.

The Greens want to support industry in becoming climate neutral and keep it in Germany. They rely on the carbon price, targeted investment support, more Klimaschutzverträge (climate protection contracts) and guaranteed demand for climate-neutral products.

The Greens want to help industry protect the climate. Factories should stay in Germany. The state should pay companies that save a lot of CO₂. The state should also buy climate-friendly steel itself.

The Greens want to permit capturing, storing and using CO₂ where industrial emissions are hard to avoid. Uniform Europe-wide rules and shared infrastructure would be created for this.

Some factories cannot fully avoid CO₂. The Greens want to allow capturing and storing CO₂ there. The CO₂ must be stored safely. Europe should get shared rules and storage sites for this.

The Greens want to protect households from having their electricity or heating cut off. Electricity bills are to become easier to understand, and district heating is to get nationwide price oversight.

The Greens want to protect people who pay for power and heating. Nobody should simply have their power or heat cut off. Power bills should be easier to read. The state should check prices for district heating.

The Greens oppose weakening the European Green Deal and the 'Fit for 55' legislative package. European emissions trading for transport and buildings is to start as planned. Businesses need planning certainty, the platform says.

The Greens want to keep the EU's climate laws. These laws are called the Green Deal. Nobody should make them weaker. Emitting CO₂ should have a price in the EU, also for transport and buildings.

The Greens want to stick to the goal of climate neutrality by 2045 and to the interim targets. Under the Climate Protection Act, individual sectors are to be held more accountable again if they are projected to miss their targets.

Germany should be climate neutral by 2045. The Greens want to stick to that. Every ministry should have to act in its own area. More should happen in transport: more rail and more electric cars.

The Greens want to expand funding programs for climate-friendly investments and scale them more strongly by income. People with low or middle incomes are to get more support. Investments in climate neutrality are to be financed partly through borrowing.

Climate protection costs money, for example for a new heating system. The Greens want to help people pay for it. People who earn little should get more help. The state should also be allowed to borrow money for this.

The Greens want to spend revenue from the carbon price on heating and transport on socially fair climate action. Most of it would be paid out as Klimageld (a climate payment) to people with low and middle incomes.

Heating and fuel cost more because of the carbon price. The state earns money from this. The Greens want to give this money back. People with low or middle incomes should get a climate payment.

The Greens want those who cause climate damage to pay for it. They name the super-rich and oil and gas companies, which are to contribute to covering the costs.

The climate crisis causes high costs. The Greens say: whoever causes the damage should pay. They mean very rich people and oil and gas companies. Coal companies should pay for later damage themselves.

The Greens want to keep up the pace of renewable energy expansion. Renewables are to supply 80 percent of electricity by 2030, and power generation is to be fully climate-neutral in 2035.

Electricity should come from wind, sun and water. By 2030 this should be 80 percent. In 2035 all electricity should be climate-neutral. People should find it easier to use and share their own power.

The Greens want to better match electricity supply and demand because wind and sun deliver unevenly. New market rules, grid expansion, storage, digital grids and hydrogen-ready power plants are to contribute.

Wind and sun do not always deliver the same amount of power. So the Greens want to change the power market. They want to build more lines and storage. People should use power when it is cheap.

The Greens want to make electricity cheaper for households and businesses. The electricity tax is to drop to the minimum rate allowed in the EU, and a new way of financing grid expansion is to lower grid fees.

Electricity should get cheaper. The Greens want to cut the electricity tax sharply. Fees for the power grid should also go down. This should ease the burden on people and companies.

The Greens want no coal-fired power plant running in Germany from 2030 on, and coal mining is to end as well. This is meant to give coal regions planning certainty and allow an orderly structural transition.

The Greens want to stop burning coal from 2030 on. Coal mining should end then too. Coal regions should be able to plan safely. The state should support them during the change.

The Greens want to reduce the use of fossil gas step by step and end it by 2045 at the latest. New projects to extract oil and natural gas are no longer to be approved in Germany.

The Greens want to use less and less natural gas. It should end by 2045 at the latest. No one should start new drilling for oil or gas in Germany. Green hydrogen and renewable energy should replace gas.

The Greens reject a return to nuclear power, citing the unresolved waste storage question, the costs and the risk of weapons-grade material spreading. Fuel element production and uranium enrichment in Germany are also to end.

The Greens want no more nuclear power plants. They find nuclear power too dangerous and too costly. Factories for nuclear fuel in Germany should close too. A safe storage site should be found for nuclear waste.

The Greens stand by the Gebäudeenergiegesetz (building energy law) and the subsidy of up to 70 percent for fossil-free heating systems and want to expand support. Together with municipalities, everyone is to be able to switch gradually to climate-neutral, affordable heating.

The Greens want heating to stop harming the climate. The heating law should stay. People who install climate-friendly heating get money from the state. The Greens want to increase this help.

The Greens want to expand heating networks, convert them to renewable heat, and extend and increase federal funding for this. District heating customers are to be better protected, first through price oversight and later through price regulation.

District heating brings heat through pipes to many homes at once. The Greens want to build more of these networks. The heat should be climate-friendly. The state should check district heating prices.

The Greens want to make climate action and adaptation to climate impacts a task that the federal government and the states pay for together, because municipalities carry most of the burden. Flood protection, disaster response and the protection of cities against heat and heavy rain are to be expanded.

The climate is changing. There is more heat and more flooding. The Greens want to protect people better. The federal government and the states should pay for this together. Cities should get more green space and more room for water.

The Greens want to end oil extraction in German waters and gas extraction in Germany by 2035 and to draw up a roadmap for it. They reject gas drilling off Borkum because, in the platform's view, it endangers the Wadden Sea.

The Greens want Germany to stop pumping oil and gas. This should end by 2035. Nobody should drill for gas near the island of Borkum. The Greens want to protect the Wadden Sea this way.

The Greens want Germany and Europe to contribute their share of international climate finance in line with the decisions of the climate conferences. Climate diplomacy and partnerships are to support other countries on the path to climate neutrality; the program sees the climate crisis as a major security risk.

The Greens want to advance climate protection around the world. Germany and Europe should give money to other countries for this. Poor and badly affected countries should get special help. International banks should stop funding coal, oil and gas.

The Greens want to halve the use of newly extracted raw materials in the long run and build a circular economy. This is meant to secure supply and, according to the program, protect the climate and species and create new jobs.

The Greens want to use far fewer new raw materials. Things should last longer and be repaired. People who get an electrical device repaired should get money from the state. Cities should be allowed to tax packaging.

The Greens want to write the protection of climate and nature into the Grundgesetz (Basic Law, Germany's constitution). The Aktionsprogramm Natürlicher Klimaschutz (action program for natural climate protection) would continue permanently and receive more money after 2028.

The Greens want to protect the climate and nature better. This protection should be in the constitution. The constitution is the most important law in Germany. There should also be more money for forests and moors.

The Greens want to effectively protect thirty percent of land and sea area by 2030 and pass a biodiversity law to do so. Land for restoring nature would be secured by law.

The Greens want to protect more nature. By 2030, almost one third of the area should be protected. A new law should protect the variety of animals and plants. Rivers, forests and moors should become more natural again.

The Greens oppose placing the wolf and other protected species under hunting law. In problematic individual cases, however, shooting should become faster and simpler. EU nature conservation law is to be preserved.

The wolf is a protected animal. The Greens do not want to open it to hunting. If a wolf causes problems, shooting it should be allowed more quickly. Animal owners should easily get money for damage.

The Greens want to update the Bundeswaldgesetz (Federal Forest Act) so that forests develop as naturally as possible into resilient mixed forests. The platform cites damage from the climate crisis, conifer plantations, drought and pests.

Many forests are in bad shape. The Greens want a new forest law. It should support forests with many kinds of trees. Such forests cope better with heat and drought.

The Greens want to make the World Health Organization's recommendations on air and noise the legal standard. A new soil protection law would reduce pollutants and pesticides in the soil, including giving up glyphosate and neonicotinoids entirely.

The Greens want clean air and less noise. The rules of the World Health Organization should apply. A new law should protect the soil. Very harmful plant poisons should go away completely.

The Greens want to reduce packaging waste and make plastics producers bear more of the environmental costs. From 2045 at the latest, there should be no avoidable packaging waste. Internationally, the party seeks a plastics treaty with binding rules.

The Greens want less waste from packaging. Companies that make plastic should pay more for harm to nature. From 2045, there should be no needless packaging waste. There should also be less plastic worldwide.

The Greens want to curb private fireworks and consider a year-round ban on sales for private use appropriate. Municipalities should be able to set no-fireworks zones on a secure legal footing. The platform points to burdens on municipalities, people, animals and the environment, as well as misuse.

The Greens want fewer private fireworks. Stores should not sell them to private people all year. Cities should be able to ban fireworks in certain places. This should protect people, animals and nature.

The Greens want to gradually end the use of so-called forever chemicals, starting where they can be replaced or are not critical. Reform of the EU chemicals regulation REACH should move faster without lowering the level of protection.

Some chemicals never break down. People call them forever chemicals. The Greens want to stop using them step by step. Where a replacement exists, this should happen fast.

The Greens want producers of substances hazardous to water to pay for the consequences of water pollution. The National Water Strategy and the EU Water Framework Directive are to be implemented with sufficient money and staff.

The Greens want clean water. Whoever pollutes water should pay for the harm. Dangerous substances should no longer get into water. Old munitions should be taken out of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

The Greens want stronger protection for the oceans and real refuges for fish and marine mammals in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. At least ten percent of Germany's marine area is to remain entirely unused so that nature can recover there.

The Greens want to protect the seas better. In part of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, nobody should disturb nature. Fish and other animals can recover there. Fishing should also do less harm to nature.

The Greens want stricter animal welfare rules in Germany, Europe, and internationally. Animal transports are to last no more than four hours across Europe and be banned out of Europe; in addition, harmful breeding is to end and animal welfare groups are to be able to sue.

The Greens want to protect animals better. Animals should spend four hours at most in a transport truck. Transports out of Europe should be banned. Animal welfare groups should be able to go to court for animals. Wild animals should no longer be in circuses.

The Greens want to reduce land consumption with new tools such as tradable land-use certificates or a levy on building land. At the same time, more urban development funding should make city and town centers livelier.

More and more land in Germany is built on. The Greens want to slow this down. They want new rules for that. They also want nicer city and village centers. More money should go to this.

The Greens want to ensure that GMO-free farming and food production remain possible. To that end, plants, animals, seeds and genes should not be patentable, and genetically modified products should be tested and labeled.

Many people want food without genetic engineering. The Greens want this to stay possible. No one should get a patent on plants, animals or genes. Food made with genetic engineering should carry a label.

The Greens want the EU's Common Agricultural Policy funds to be awarded from 2027 on the principle that public money pays for services to the public. The subsidies are to become the financial basis for protecting natural resources.

Farmers get a lot of money from the EU. The Greens want to change these rules from 2027. The money should pay for things that help everyone. One example is protecting nature and the environment.

The Greens want to strengthen farmers' position against processors and retailers. Across the whole food chain, buyers would have to pay prices that cover costs, and supply contracts would have to be written and binding.

Farmers should get enough money for their goods. The Greens want a new rule for this. Buyers must pay prices that cover the farmers' costs. Contracts must be in writing.

The Greens want to reshape livestock farming so that fewer animals are kept under better conditions. They justify this with falling meat consumption and want to keep funding barn conversions and extend husbandry labeling.

People are eating less meat. So the Greens want fewer animals in barns. These animals should have more space. The state should keep paying for rebuilding barns. More meat should carry a label showing how the animal lived.

The Greens want to give farms additional income, for example through solar installations on farmland, tourism, and plant-based building materials. Farms are also to get help entering markets for alternative and plant-based proteins.

Farmers should be able to earn money in new ways. One example is solar panels on fields. Another is vacations on the farm. Plants used as building material should help too. The Greens also want to support new foods made from plants.

The Greens want to reduce the use of pesticides and fertilizers. They plan a nutrient balance, implementation of the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy, and a levy on pesticides whose revenue can fund environmentally friendly crop protection.

Farmers should use less pest poison and less fertilizer. The Greens want a levy on pesticides. Pesticides are products against pests and weeds. The money should help gentler methods. Bees should also be better protected.

The Greens name organic farming and food production as their guiding model and stick to the goal of 30 percent organic farming by 2030. To get there, they want to implement the Biostrategie 2030 (organic strategy) and provide the necessary money.

The Greens want more organic farming. By 2030, almost a third of farming should be organic. The state should give enough money for this. Young farmers should find it easier to start.

The Greens want to stick to the rule that from 2035 only new cars with climate-neutral drives are registered. They justify this with planning certainty for the car industry and want to speed up the switch to electric cars with subsidies.

From 2035, new cars should emit no CO₂. The Greens want to keep this rule. They say car companies need clear rules. The state should help with buying electric cars and with charging stations.

The Greens want to make it easier for people with low and middle incomes to switch to an electric car, especially in rural areas. They propose state support for buying efficient electric cars and lower prices at charging stations.

The Greens want to help people buy electric cars. The help is for people with low or middle incomes. It matters most for people in the countryside. Charging at public stations should also get cheaper.

The Greens want a thorough overhaul of transport infrastructure, financed long-term through a Deutschlandfonds (Germany fund). The rail network is to grow, while in the party's view roads should be repaired rather than newly built.

Many roads, bridges and rail lines are in bad shape. The Greens want to repair them. A new fund should provide the money. There should be more rail lines. The Greens say few new roads are needed.

The Greens want to modernize air and sea transport with sustainable fuels and climate-neutral energy in ports. Benefits for private jets are to end, and short-haul flights are to become unnecessary thanks to better rail service.

Planes and ships should harm the climate less. New, clean fuels should make this possible. Private jets should lose their advantages. Better trains should replace short flights. It should get quieter around airports.

The Greens want a general speed limit of 130 km/h on the autobahn. Municipalities should find it easier to set 30 km/h limits in built-up areas, including across entire towns. The platform cites road safety and environmental protection as reasons.

The Greens want a speed limit on the autobahn. Drivers may go 130 km/h at most. Towns should find it easier to set a 30 km/h limit. This should lead to fewer crashes.

The Greens want to keep the Deutschland-Ticket (nationwide local transit pass) affordable and, together with the states, secure a price of 49 euros. They also plan discounted offers for specific groups.

The Deutschland-Ticket should stay. It should cost 49 euros a month. People with little money should get a cheaper ticket. Trainees should get a low-cost offer too.

The Greens want to expand public transit so that it is an alternative to the car in rural areas as well. In the medium term, every village should have hourly service from early morning until late evening. A mobility law would enshrine priority for public transit, rail, walking and cycling.

The Greens want more buses and trains. People in the countryside should get around well without a car. Every village should have a bus or train each hour. A new law should set this out.

The Greens want to keep repairing and expanding the rail network and speed up the Deutschlandtakt. Rail's share of freight transport should rise to 30 percent within ten years.

The Greens want better trains. They want to fix tracks and build new ones. Trains should run often and on time. More goods should travel by train instead of by truck.

The Greens want to advance the digitalization of business and science and bring artificial intelligence into wider practical use. AI development, cybersecurity and digital skills would be supported, and using data would become easier. The state would act as a customer buying innovative digital products.

The Greens want more digital tools in companies and universities. Artificial intelligence should be used more often. A simple test would show which rules apply to an AI program. The state itself should buy new digital products.

The Greens want to create a Germany app through which all government services gradually become available. Public offices are to work more digitally, ask for data only once, and keep offline access open where it is needed.

The Greens want to introduce a Germany app. People should be able to handle things with public offices in the app. For example, they could apply for an ID card. People should only have to enter their data once. Those who do not use the internet can still go to the office.

The Greens want to bring responsibilities for digitalization together in a digital ministry. In the platform's view, digitalization has so far also faltered because responsibilities are scattered. Open standards are also meant to make IT systems work together.

The Greens want a ministry for digital matters. Everything about digitalization should come together there. The ministry should also manage the money for IT. Computer systems of companies and public offices should fit together better.

The Greens want to make data protection simpler and less bureaucratic to implement without lowering the level of protection. Data protection oversight is to become more uniform. The state is to make its own data available proactively.

The Greens want to make data protection rules simpler. The protection of data should stay just as good. The oversight agencies should work in a more uniform way. The state should show its own data openly.

The Greens want fast internet in cities and rural areas alike. To that end, permits are to be issued faster, rural regions are to get more funding, and customers' rights to fast internet are to be strengthened.

The Greens want fast internet everywhere. Building fiber and 5G networks should go faster. The state should give more money for this in rural areas. Customers should find it easier to show that their internet is too slow.

The Greens want to better protect children and teenagers from the mental and social effects of excessive social media use. To do so, platform algorithms are to be regulated more strictly and safe default settings required.

Social media can harm children. The Greens want stricter rules for the platforms. The party does not want to allow programs designed to make children addicted. Devices and services should have safe settings from the start.

The Greens want to replace paper records in health care with digital tools and expand the electronic patient record. This is meant to cut red tape and increase the benefit for patients. Protection of health data is to remain strong.

Health care still uses a lot of paper. The Greens want to change that. Vaccination and maternity records should be digital. Patient data should be well protected. People, not computers, will still decide on treatment.

The Greens want a digital violence protection law so that illegal content such as insults or incitement to hatred is deleted and the accounts behind it are blocked faster. The platform sees democracy at risk when hate and disinformation spread systematically online.

There is hate and there are lies on the internet. The Greens want a new law against this. Illegal posts should be deleted. The accounts behind them should be blocked faster. Police and prosecutors should pursue crimes on the internet.

The Greens want to curb targeted disinformation campaigns that, in their view, aim to influence elections and divide society. Systematically spreading disinformation on behalf of a foreign state is to become a crime. Large platforms are to be required to take effective countermeasures.

Some states spread false news on purpose. The Greens want to fight this. People who do this for a foreign state should be punished. Big online platforms should do more against it.

The Greens want to better protect IT infrastructure against attacks with a cybersecurity strengthening act. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is to become more independent and serve as the central authority. The platform cites yearly damage of more than 200 billion euros to the economy.

Hackers attack the computers of companies and agencies. The Greens want to protect the technology better. A new law should do this. The federal IT security office should get more tasks.

The Greens want to expand the protection of children and teenagers from sexualized and other violence. The plan includes uniform standards, prosecution online and offline, and more prevention.

Children and teenagers need protection from violence. The Greens want the same rules everywhere. The police should pursue offenders on the internet and elsewhere. Images of abuse should be deleted. Schools and families should work on prevention.

The Greens want to examine which minor offenses no longer need to be treated as crimes, in order to ease the burden on the courts. According to the platform, nobody should end up in jail because they cannot pay a small fine.

Some small offenses are crimes today. The Greens want to check whether that is needed. Courts should have less work this way. People who cannot pay a small fine should not go to prison.

The Greens reject surveillance without specific cause, including blanket data retention, chat control, and biometric identification in public spaces. Instead they rely on targeted law enforcement using the quick-freeze procedure and AI-supported data analysis by the police.

The Greens do not want everyone to be watched without a reason. The state should not store everyone's connection data. It should not scan private chats either. But police should be able to secure data when there is a suspicion. Police should analyze their data better with computer programs.

The Greens want to move sexual offense law to a consent-based model, under which sexual acts without agreement are punishable. They also want new offenses for spreading nude images without consent and tougher sentences when knockout drops are used.

The Greens want to change the criminal law on sexual violence. Sex should only be allowed with consent. This is called the consent model. People who spread nude pictures against someone's will should be punished. This also applies to fake pictures made by a computer. People who use knockout drops should be punished harder.

The Greens want to give the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) more staff, technology and constitutionally sound powers. Federal police laws are to be modernized and investigations in the digital sphere strengthened. The platform also relies on prevention as the most effective way to fight crime.

The federal police should get more staff and better technology. They should also be able to investigate better online. The laws for the police should be updated. The Greens also want to prevent crime before it happens.

The Greens want to further restrict access to firearms and other dangerous weapons. The platform points to the growing number of firearms and to violent crimes, especially in the home.

The Greens want stricter rules for weapons. It should be harder to get a gun. People should need a permit just to buy a blank-firing gun. Public offices should work together better.

The Greens want to make police conduct more transparent. Federal Police officers would wear anonymized identification, and a ticket system would record the reasons for stops. The platform bases this on the police's special responsibility as holder of the state's monopoly on force.

Federal police officers should wear a number on their uniform. When stopped, people should get a slip stating the reason. This should make clearer what the police do. The office for complaints about the police should get stronger.

The Greens make fighting organized crime a priority. They want to set up a joint federal-state center, strengthen the relevant units of the BKA, Federal Police and customs, and allow tougher penalties. European agencies are also to receive more powers.

Criminal gangs cause great harm. The Greens want to act more strongly against them. The federal government and the states should work together in a new center. Punishments should be tougher. Police in Europe should also do more together.

The Greens want to expand the Federal Office for Combating Financial Crime into a financial police force. Assets obtained through crime should be easier to confiscate. The platform cites around 100 billion euros said to be laundered in Germany each year.

Criminals move a lot of money from crimes into the normal economy in Germany. This is called money laundering. The Greens want a special financial police for this. The state should be able to take away crime money more easily.

The Greens want people who reject the constitution to have no weapons and hold no public office. Extremist networks are to be identified early and monitored, and associations banned. The platform focuses in particular on the far-right scene.

Some people reject the constitution. The Greens want to take their weapons away. They also should not work for the state. This applies to the police and the army, for example.

The Greens want to invest in domestic security and better equip the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the domestic intelligence service. The aim is to uncover attack plans early. At the same time, victims of terror attacks and their families are to get more state support.

The Greens want to prevent terror better. The police and the domestic intelligence service should get more staff and technology. Dangerous people should be watched closely. Victims of attacks should get more help.

The Greens want to keep investing in civil protection and give the federal government a bigger role. Volunteers in fire departments, the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) and aid organizations are to get better support. The platform points to more extreme weather caused by the climate crisis.

Storms and floods are becoming more common. The Greens want to protect people better. The federal government should do more. Volunteer helpers should get more support.

The Greens want to better equip Germany's intelligence services and give them a reliable legal basis. At EU level, a European intelligence agency is to be created. The services are to act within the rule of law and be effectively overseen by parliament.

Intelligence services collect information about dangers. The Greens want to equip them better. Europe should get a shared intelligence agency. Parliament should oversee the services well.

The Greens want stronger protection for critical infrastructure such as power grids, mobile networks and servers, and want control over it to stay in the country. An investment screening law is meant to close gaps when foreign investors buy such assets. Domestic and external security are to be treated more as one.

Power grids and phone networks are very important. The Greens want to protect them better. Foreign companies should not be able to simply buy them. A new law should make sure of that.

The Greens propose a reform of the state that reorders tasks among the federal government, the states, and municipalities. The federal level is to get more powers over digitalization, while states and municipalities get more leeway in implementation. The federal ministerial bureaucracy is to shrink.

The Greens want to reorganize the state. The federal government, states, and towns should divide their tasks more clearly. The federal government should be in charge of digital solutions. States and towns should decide more on their own. Federal ministries should get smaller.

The Greens want to lower the voting age for federal elections to 16 and write children's rights into the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. Young people are also to be more involved in political decisions.

The Greens want teenagers to be able to vote for the Bundestag from age 16. Children's rights should be written into the constitution. Young people should have more of a say in politics.

The Greens want to use commercial tenancy law to protect shops, restaurants and cultural venues from being pushed out. Public spaces such as streets, parks and train stations are to be safe and accessible. The platform argues that social cohesion grows where people come together.

The Greens want to protect meeting places. These include shops, restaurants, cinemas and clubs. They should not have to close because of high rents. Streets, parks and train stations should be safe. People with disabilities should be able to use them easily.

The Greens want to update the law governing relations between the state and religious communities to reflect the growing diversity of religions and worldviews. People without religious affiliation are to be given equal consideration. Groups such as Alevis and Yazidis are to be protected from hostility.

Germany has many religions. Many people also have no religion. The Greens want to adapt the rules between state and religion to this. People without religion should have equal rights to take part. Alevis and Yazidis should get protection from hostility.

The Greens want to give programs like “Demokratie leben!” more funding and secure them permanently through a Demokratiefördergesetz (democracy promotion act). People engaged in civil society are to be better protected from attacks and civic education strengthened. The platform sees protecting democracy as a task for society as a whole.

Many associations and groups work for democracy. The Greens want to give them money for the long term. A new law should secure this. People who get involved should be better protected from threats. Civic education should also become stronger.

The Greens call on the Bundestag, the Bundesrat and the federal government to promptly prepare a motion asking the Federal Constitutional Court to rule the AfD unconstitutional. The platform refers to the instrument the Basic Law provides for protecting the democratic order.

The German constitution allows a ban on parties. The highest German court decides on this. The Greens want the court to examine the AfD. Parliament and the government should soon prepare a motion for this. All parties should work together on it.

The Greens want to strengthen citizens' assemblies and anchor them in law, including democratic procedures on their results. To that end, a popular initiative is to be examined. The right of petition is also to be developed further.

In citizens' assemblies, randomly chosen people discuss politics. The Greens want to secure these assemblies by law. There should be democratic procedures on their results. The party will examine a popular initiative for this. Petitions should also carry more weight.

The Greens want everyone who lives permanently in Germany to be able to take part on equal terms in all elections and referendums. Voting is to be made easier for Germans living abroad.

Some people live in Germany permanently. But often they are not allowed to vote. The Greens want to change that. These people should be able to take part in all elections. Germans abroad should be able to vote more easily.

The Greens want to limit donations and sponsorship to parties to an annual maximum and make the government's lobbying meetings visible. Cooling-off periods for departing members of government are to be lengthened. The platform argues that transparent politics serves the common good.

The Greens want more openness in politics. No one should be able to give parties unlimited money. There should be a limit per year. The government should make meetings with lobbyists public. Lobbyists represent the interests of companies or associations.

The Greens want to establish a legal right to a voluntary service placement and expand places in the Bundesfreiwilligendienst (federal volunteer service). Expense allowances for volunteers are to be uniformly tax-free as a flat rate, and a nationwide volunteer card is to offer discounts. The platform sees volunteering as a foundation of life together.

Many people volunteer in clubs or with the fire department. The Greens want to support that. Everyone should have a right to a voluntary service. Money paid for volunteer roles should be tax-free. A card should make entry fees and public transit cheaper.

The Greens want to change nonprofit law so that charitable organizations may also take part in political debate. The list of recognized charitable purposes is to grow, and associations are to face less red tape.

Clubs and groups help society. The Greens want to make their work easier. These groups should be allowed to speak about politics. They would keep their tax benefits. More kinds of work should count as charitable.

The Greens want to renew the Pakt für den Rechtsstaat (a federal-state pact for the rule of law) to better equip and digitize courts and prosecutors' offices. In the platform's view, trust in the rule of law grows when courts decide quickly and enforce the law effectively.

Courts should work faster. The Greens want more staff and more digital tools for this. The federal government and the states should do this together. People should be able to file lawsuits online. Several people should be able to sue together.

The Greens want to strengthen the European single market and add a deeper digital union and a common market for research and innovation. In the platform's view, Europe can only compete with the US and China through more cooperation.

The Greens want more teamwork in Europe. The EU's shared market should get stronger. Countries should also work more closely on digital matters and research. This should help Europe keep up with the US and China.

The Greens want to quickly complete the European capital markets and banking union and set up a strong EU supervisor for capital markets. According to the platform, inconsistent national rules hold back investment and make financing harder for companies.

In the EU, each country has its own rules for money markets. The Greens want shared rules for all of Europe. A strong EU office would watch over the markets. This should help companies get money more easily.

The Greens reject permanent fixed checks at borders within the EU, citing freedom of movement and the single market. Instead, the external borders are to be controlled under the rule of law and arrivals reliably registered, increasingly by European officers.

In Europe people can travel freely across borders. The Greens do not want constant checks there. Checks should take place at the EU's outer borders. The border agency Frontex should be watched more closely.

The Greens want violations of the EU's basic values by member states to have consequences. In the rule-of-law procedure under Article 7, a qualified majority should be enough at every stage. EU funds are to be tied more closely to democracy and the rule of law.

Some EU countries do not follow the rules of democracy. The Greens want this to have consequences. The EU should be able to decide on this more easily. Such countries should get less EU money.

The Greens want to give the European Parliament the right to propose laws itself. It should also decide on equal footing with the Council in all policy areas. According to the platform, the goal is an EU that is closer to citizens and more democratic.

Today the European Parliament cannot propose its own laws. The Greens want to change that. Parliament should have a say in every area. Citizens should have more of a voice in the EU.

The Greens want to enlarge the EU to stabilize its neighborhood and secure peace, freedom and prosperity in Europe. They back accession for the Western Balkan states, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, provided the criteria are met. In parallel, the EU is to be reformed so it can act more effectively.

Several countries want to join the EU. These include Ukraine and countries in the Balkans. The Greens support this. But the countries must meet the EU's rules.

The Greens want an EU constitutional convention to be convened, because several of their reform proposals require treaty changes. Their long-term vision is a Federal European Republic with its own constitution. Unanimous decisions are to be replaced by majority votes.

The Greens want to rebuild the EU. They want a constitutional convention. That is a meeting that writes new basic rules for the EU. In the end, the EU should be one federal state with its own constitution.

The Greens want a larger EU financial framework and new revenue sources of the EU's own. The money is to go more strongly into innovation, infrastructure and the climate-neutral transformation of the economy. The platform says joint European bonds have proven their worth.

The Greens want the EU to get more money. The EU should also have new income of its own. The money should go to new technology, roads and networks, and climate protection. The Greens think shared debt of EU countries is useful for this.

The Greens call for a new initiative from the head of government for a strong, united Europe. Ukraine is to receive continued support because, in the platform's view, this also protects Germany itself.

The Greens want a strong Europe. The government should make a new push for it. Germany should keep helping Ukraine. The Greens say this also protects Germany.

The Greens want to address the causes of displacement through diplomacy, crisis prevention, humanitarian aid and development cooperation. People who leave their homes because of the climate crisis should in the long run receive a protection status under international law.

Many people flee from war, hardship or the effects of the climate crisis. The Greens want to fight the reasons people flee. There should be help in crises and for poor countries. People who flee because of the climate should later get a right to protection.

The Greens want to keep supporting Ukraine diplomatically, financially, with humanitarian aid and militarily. The country should be able to defend itself and negotiate from a strong position in any peace process. The platform also sees this as the best protection for Germany.

Russia is waging war on Ukraine. The Greens want to keep helping Ukraine. This includes money, aid supplies and weapons. Ukraine should also be able to join the EU and NATO.

The Greens want to support Ukraine until its people can live in peace again. Sanctions against Russia are to be expanded, for example to the nuclear industry. In the platform's view, shifting borders by force must not succeed.

The Greens want to keep helping Ukraine. Russia should not win the war. The penalties against Russia should get tougher. They should also cover the nuclear industry.

The Greens want to remain a reliable ally of the United States while strengthening European sovereignty. They also want to expand cooperation with countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. The party hopes to win allies for human rights, climate action and reform of international organizations.

The Greens want to stay a firm partner of the US. But Europe should also grow stronger on its own. Germany should work more with countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The party wants to find new partners for climate action and human rights.

The Greens want to implement and further develop the federal government's China strategy together with European partners. One-sided dependencies on China are to shrink and trade relations are to be diversified. This is meant to secure economic stability and political freedom of action.

Germany should depend less on China. So Germany should trade with more countries. The Greens also want to work more closely with Taiwan. Taiwan is a democracy in Asia.

The Greens call Israel's right to exist non-negotiable and back a negotiated two-state solution. Arms exports to Israel are to be withheld in individual cases if the protection of civilians is not sufficiently respected. The Gaza ceasefire is to be fully implemented.

The Greens stand by Israel. Israel may defend itself. But there should also be a state for the Palestinians. Germany should only send weapons if civilians are protected enough.

After the fall of the Assad regime, the Greens want to support Syria with humanitarian aid, reconstruction and the easing of EU economic sanctions. The party rejects quick returns of Syrian refugees because the country's direction is still unclear. Those who want to help rebuild should not lose their residence permit by doing so.

The Greens want to help Syria make a new start. Germany should send aid and support rebuilding. Refugees from Syria should not have to go back quickly now. The situation in the country is still unsafe.

The Greens want to keep adjusting sanctions against those responsible in the Iranian regime and monitor compliance. The Revolutionary Guards are to be listed as a terrorist organization at EU level in a legally sound way. At the same time the party relies on diplomacy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The Greens want penalties against the rulers of Iran. The penalties should not hit ordinary people. The EU should class the Revolutionary Guards as a terror group. Iran should not get nuclear weapons.

The Greens want to detect crises and conflicts earlier and better coordinate foreign, security and development policy. A center for strategic foresight is to be set up to develop future scenarios. It would build on a shared situation picture and situation center across all ministries.

The Greens want to spot crises earlier. For this, there should be a new center. Experts there think about what could happen in the future. The ministries should work together better.

The Greens want to reform the UN, including the Security Council, where world regions are to be represented more fairly. Germany and the EU are to step up their UN engagement diplomatically, financially and in personnel. Humanitarian aid is to be awarded more flexibly and over several years.

The Greens want to change the United Nations. All parts of the world should be represented more fairly in the Security Council. Germany should do more there and give more money. Aid for people in need should be easier to plan.

The Greens want to strengthen international criminal justice and stand behind the International Criminal Court. The crime of aggression, meaning waging a war of aggression, should become easier to prosecute. To that end, the court's statute is to be reformed.

The Greens support the International Criminal Court. This court punishes grave crimes such as war crimes. It should also be able to punish wars of aggression better. For this, the court's rules should be changed.

The Greens want to support civil society organizations worldwide that stand up for free speech and the rule of law. Persecuted human rights defenders, journalists, artists and scholars are to get protection programs. Those most at risk should be able to come to Germany through humanitarian visas and faster procedures.

In many countries, people who stand up for human rights are persecuted. The Greens want to help these people. There should be protection programs at home or abroad. People in great danger should quickly get a visa for Germany.

The Greens want to continue the process of reconciliation with former German colonies such as Namibia, including symbolic and material reparations. They also want to strengthen the intermediary organizations of Germany's foreign cultural and education policy, arguing that culture fosters understanding in times of crisis.

Germany once had colonies, for example Namibia. Germany committed crimes there. The Greens want to keep working on reconciliation with these countries. Germany should make amends. Cultural exchange with other countries should also grow.

The Greens want to pursue a feminist foreign and development policy that strengthens the rights, resources and representation of women, girls and marginalized groups worldwide. The program argues that equality makes societies more peaceful, fairer and economically more successful.

The Greens want to strengthen women and girls around the world. This should be a goal of German foreign policy. Germany should do more against violence toward women. Women's groups should get more money. Queer people should also be better protected.

The Greens want to spend significantly more than two percent of economic output on security and defense on a permanent basis, financed in part by higher borrowing. Germany and Europe are to take on more responsibility for their own security regardless of US policy and strengthen NATO's European pillar.

The Greens want to spend more money on defense. It should be clearly more than 2 percent of economic output. The state should be allowed to borrow more for this. Europe should protect itself more. EU countries should work closely together on this.

The Greens want to advance disarmament and arms control, strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and secure an international ban on fully autonomous lethal weapons. At the same time, the program calls NATO nuclear sharing an essential pillar of security in light of Russian threats. Globally, the party relies on civilian crisis prevention.

The Greens want fewer weapons in the world. The goal is a world without nuclear weapons. As long as Russia makes threats, Germany should stay part of NATO's nuclear protection. Weapons that decide over life and death with no human involved should be banned. Conflicts should be solved early and without the military where possible.

The Greens want to equip the Bundeswehr with modern gear with the help of a capable European defense industry. EU states are to develop, produce and buy armaments together rather than maintain parallel structures.

EU countries should develop and buy weapons and equipment together. Today each country does much of this alone. The Greens think this costs too much. Europe should be able to make more of its own arms. This should make Europe more independent.

The Greens want to enshrine criteria for arms exports more firmly in law in Germany and Europe. Exports are meant to protect partners but must not lead to German or European weapons being used to violate human rights or prop up authoritarian regimes.

The Greens want strict rules for selling weapons abroad. The rules should be written into a law. Weapons should not go to dictatorships. The state should check where the weapons end up.

The Greens want Germany to spend at least 0.7 percent of its gross national income on development cooperation, with 0.2 percent going to the least developed countries. Development policy is to remain independent and, as the program describes it, feminist, inclusive and decolonial.

Germany should keep helping poor countries. Germany should spend at least 0.7 percent of its income on this. Part of it should go to the poorest countries. Countries with heavy debts should have debts canceled. Germany should also help build health systems.

The Greens want to realize the right to water and food worldwide. Among other things, exports of pesticides that are not permitted in Germany because of environmental and health risks are to end.

All people should have enough water and food. Some pesticides are banned in Germany. The Greens want Germany to stop selling them abroad too. Small farmers should be able to keep their land. No one should bet on water and food on financial markets.

The Greens want targeted support for regional media and local journalism, coordinated with the states. Nonprofit journalism is to be recognized in the tax code. The platform sees diverse media as a central space for democratic debate whose future must be secured in the digital era.

The Greens want to support local newspapers and broadcasters. The state should support the work of journalists. Nonprofit media should also get benefits. Nonprofit means they do not work for profit. The job of journalist should become more attractive and safer.

The Greens want to fund concentration camp memorials adequately and enable every student to visit a Nazi-era memorial site. Engagement with antisemitism and antiziganism is to be intensified. The platform points to the rise of historical revisionism and the passing of the generation of eyewitnesses.

The Greens want to remember the crimes of the Nazis. Memorial sites should get enough money. Every student should be able to visit a memorial once. The state should help pay for it. Remembrance should also include people with immigrant backgrounds.

The Greens want to continue addressing the injustice committed in the Soviet occupation zone and East Germany. Victims of the SED dictatorship are to gain easier recognition of long-term health damage. The Peaceful Revolution of 1989 is also to be remembered.

The Greens want to keep examining injustice in East Germany. A memorial for the victims should be built. Many victims still have health problems today. They should get recognition more easily. The courage of the people of 1989 should also be remembered.

The Greens want to continue addressing Germany's colonial history, especially the genocide of the Herero and Nama, in dialogue with the affected countries. A center for learning and remembrance is to be created. Communities of origin are to be involved in the return of cultural objects and human remains.

Germany once had colonies. Great injustice happened there. The Greens want to keep examining this. There should be a center for learning and remembering. Stolen cultural objects should go back, and Germany should pay the costs.

The Greens want to write culture in its diversity into the Basic Law as a state objective. Cultural infrastructure is to be expanded so that culture is accessible wherever people live. The party sees free culture as part of democratic life.

The Greens want to protect culture in the constitution. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture. This also applies in rural areas. Clubs and concert venues should get better rules. The culture pass for young people should stay.

The Greens want to complete the reform of film funding and create new support for games and small publishers. The independent scene is to receive more support through larger federal cultural funds. To counter market concentration in pop culture, the party relies on dialogue and regulation.

The Greens want to fund culture more. Films should get new rules and tax benefits. Video games and small publishers should also get money. Independent artists should get more help. The market for tickets and streaming should become fairer.

The Greens want to improve the social situation of cultural workers and secure the Künstlersozialversicherung (artists' social insurance) for the long term. Digital platforms would pay into this insurance. When protected works are used for AI, creators should be able to enforce their remuneration.

Many artists earn little. The Greens want to protect them better. Online platforms should pay into the artists' social insurance. Artists should get money when AI uses their works. AI means artificial intelligence.

The Greens want to fund public broadcasting adequately so that it can keep developing in the digital space. In the platform's view, it offers orientation against disinformation and false reports. The Greens also back a European platform for public-service information content.

ARD and ZDF are public broadcasters. The Greens want to fund them securely. They should also work well online. Europe should get a shared platform.

The Greens want to bring living conditions in rural areas in line with those in cities. In the platform's view, this includes fiber-optic internet and gap-free cell coverage, accessible health care and lively town centers.

The Greens want to improve life in the countryside. Every village should have fast internet. Cell phones should work everywhere. Doctors should be easy to reach.

The Greens want to make an active, self-determined life easier for older people, with age-friendly municipalities, barrier-free housing and digital participation. Self-determined dying is also to be possible in practice, in line with the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling.

Older people should be able to decide about their own lives. The Greens want to make towns and villages better for this. There should be more homes without barriers. Older people should get help with digital services. People should also be able to decide about their own death.

The Greens support a German bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and want it to respect human rights and sustainability. More federal money is also to go into renovating sports facilities and swimming pools, and both grassroots and elite sports are to be strengthened.

The Greens want the Olympic Games in Germany. The environment and human rights should matter there. The federal government should give more money for gyms and swimming pools. Children should be able to learn to swim well. People with and without disabilities should play sports together.