Grüne: program for the 2023 Hesse state election

The Greens want to set up a climate and transformation fund of at least €6 billion in the next legislative term. It is to pool and develop existing state programs. Support is to go mainly to small and mid-sized businesses and to municipalities for climate action.

The Greens want a big pot of money for climate action. It should hold at least 6 billion euros. The money helps small companies and towns protect the climate. This should keep jobs in Hesse.

The Greens want to secure Hesse as an industrial location and help companies move to climate-neutral business. Small and medium-sized companies are a particular focus.

The Greens want to keep industry in Hesse. Companies should get help to work in a climate-friendly way. Small and medium-sized companies should get special advice. Government offices should become digital and simpler.

The Greens want to make the Meisterbrief (master craftsman certificate) free of charge to lower financial barriers and counter the skills shortage. Bonuses are to support start-ups and business takeovers in the skilled trades.

The Greens want to strengthen the skilled trades. The master craftsman certificate should cost nothing. People who start or take over a business should get money. There should be a short training course for solar installers.

The Greens want to support start-ups that build on the region's strengths and on sustainability. Start-ups with measurable social or environmental impact are to get higher funding rates, and women are to gain easier access to start-up finance.

The Greens want to support new companies. Companies that help people or the environment should get more money. Women should find it easier to start a company. Hesse should be a good place for founders.

The Greens want to strengthen businesses committed to the common good, such as cooperatives and social enterprises. An impact strategy is to show how social innovation can advance in Hesse.

Some companies mainly want to help society. The Greens want to support such companies. They also want to support companies that avoid waste. Companies should get advice on new reporting duties.

The Greens want to help municipalities strengthen town centers and reduce vacancies through the "Lebendige Zentren" (lively centers) funding program. In rural areas, local supply is to be secured and regional value creation supported.

The Greens want lively town centers. Towns should get money for this. Empty shops should be used again. In the countryside, shops should be close to home.

The Greens want to strengthen tourism again after the slump caused by COVID-19 and raise the profile of the regions. Funding is to focus especially on compatibility with nature.

The Greens want more visitors to come to Hesse. Tourism should protect nature. There should be more advertising for Hesse. Trails for hiking and cycling should get better.

The Greens want to support businesses in the digital transition with funding programs and training. Existing programs for skilled trades and small and midsize firms are to be developed further, and a new one for IT security launched. Funding for the games industry is also to grow.

Companies should become more digital. The Greens want the state to give money for this. Small firms and craft businesses should get help. There should be a new program for safe computers. Companies that make video games should also get more support.

The Greens consider full employment an achievable goal because climate action and innovation create new jobs. People who lose their jobs through economic change are to get new prospects. State programs are to support businesses and fund further training.

The Greens want everyone to have work. Climate action should bring many new jobs. But some jobs will go away. These people should get new chances. The state should help pay for training.

The Greens want to tackle the shortage of skilled and other workers through training and immigration. A central "welcome center" is to handle recognition of qualifications, residence issues and integration for foreign workers in one place.

Hesse does not have enough workers. The Greens want to offer more job training. They also want to attract workers from other countries. One central office should help these people quickly.

The Greens want to develop Hesse's public procurement and collective wage compliance law so that public contracts go to firms that follow the rules and more workers are covered by collective agreements. Social and environmental criteria are to carry more weight in procurement.

The state gives contracts to companies. The Greens want these companies to pay fairly. Social and environmental rules should count too. Work should also become healthier.

The Greens want to develop the existing reduced-fare ticket "Hessenpass mobil" into a social pass for Hesse. It is to make social and cultural participation easier.

People with little money can ride buses and trains for less in Hesse. This is the Hessenpass mobil. The Greens want to turn it into a social pass. It should also make culture and leisure cheaper.

The Greens want to raise Hesse's social budget by half to at least 200 million euros a year. The money is meant to fund social projects permanently, adjust grants to higher costs, and create new services.

Hesse pays for social projects. These include women's shelters and debt advice. The Greens want to raise this money a lot. It should be at least 200 million euros a year.

The Greens want to draw up an action plan against poverty and expand the state social report to cover wealth and concrete measures. Homelessness is to be decriminalized and tackled with Housing First, meaning a home of one's own as the first step of support.

Many people in Hesse live in poverty. The Greens want a plan against it. People without a home should get a home first. This is called Housing First. Homeless people should not be punished.

The Greens want to press the federal government for a scientifically monitored pilot project on unconditional basic income. It would study the effects on job searches, civic engagement, and participation in society.

A basic income is money from the state for everyone, with no conditions. The Greens want this tested in a trial. Researchers should study the effects. The federal government should run the trial.

The Greens want public infrastructure to better reflect the needs of older people. The aim is for people to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible.

There are more and more older people. The Greens want them to live at home for a long time. There should be help at home. Doctors and stores should be nearby.

The Greens want people with disabilities to live independently and without barriers and to be involved in decisions from the start. Accessibility is to be checked more effectively and the path into the regular labor market made easier.

The Greens want fewer obstacles for people with disabilities. Buildings and streets should be usable for everyone. People with disabilities should be able to find regular jobs. They should have a say in decisions.

The Greens want to write the Code for Good Work into the Higher Education Act and push back chains of fixed-term contracts. First contracts for doctoral candidates are to run four years instead of three, and student assistants are to be covered by the state's collective wage agreement.

The Greens want better jobs at universities. Doctoral candidates should get first contracts of 4 years. Today it is 3 years. There should be fewer short contracts in a row. Student assistants should be paid under the wage agreement.

The Greens want to keep adjusting civil-servant pay to court rulings and carry collective bargaining results over to civil servants. They want to reduce the disadvantage for civil servants voluntarily insured in the public health system and will examine a flat-rate subsidy for this. Staff councils are to get more say.

Civil servants work for the state. The Greens want them to be paid fairly. Pay raises from union agreements should also apply to civil servants. Civil servants in public health insurance should no longer be worse off. Staff councils should have more say.

The Greens want to make it easier for skilled workers from the EU to enter Hesse's labor market and to simplify recognition of their vocational qualifications. Posted workers are to receive more counseling to defend themselves against poor working conditions.

Skilled workers from other EU countries should find it easier to work in Hesse. Their job qualifications should be accepted more easily. Some companies send workers from abroad to Hesse. These people should get more advice. This should protect them from being exploited.

The Greens stand by the basic idea of the Schuldenbremse (debt brake) but want to change it: loans for investment in infrastructure and climate protection should be allowed with a fixed repayment plan. In their view, failing to invest also burdens future generations.

The debt brake limits new government debt. The Greens want to change this rule. The state should be allowed to borrow for roads, rail, buildings and climate protection. There should be a fixed plan for paying the money back. The state should still pay its day-to-day costs from its income.

The Greens want to keep guaranteeing municipalities the money for tasks delegated to them and to further develop the municipal fiscal equalization system. Tax revenue is to be shared fairly between the state and municipalities and among municipalities.

Cities and towns need enough money for their tasks. The Greens want to keep promising them this money. Tax income should be shared fairly. This applies between the state and the towns. It also applies among the towns themselves.

The Greens want to align the state's budget, investments and shareholdings with climate and sustainability goals and to cut climate-damaging subsidies. Frankfurt is to become a European hub for sustainable finance.

The state should consider climate and the environment when handling its money. Subsidies that harm the climate should be reduced. The state should invest its money sustainably. The Greens also want to check how the budget affects women and men. Frankfurt should become an important place for sustainable finance.

The Greens want to fight tax fraud and reduce opportunities for tax avoidance. To do so, the tax administration is to be better equipped and efforts against money laundering strengthened.

The Greens want to act against tax fraud. There should be fewer ways to avoid taxes. Tax offices should become more modern and digital. Money laundering should be fought harder. Money laundering means criminals hide where their money comes from.

The Greens want a €2 billion state program to promote housing construction and increase the number of social housing units every year. In the party's view, housing should not be left to the market alone; more homes are to be publicly owned.

The Greens want more affordable homes. The state should spend 2 billion euros on this. There should be more social housing every year. Social housing means low-cost homes for people with little money.

The Greens want a state law allowing municipalities to act against the misuse of residential space. Homes are to serve as permanent residences rather than stand empty or be used as offices or vacation rentals.

Homes should be for living in. They should not stand empty. They should not be offices or vacation rentals for good. The Greens want a new law for this.

The Greens want to protect tenants from disproportionate rent increases and call for changes to federal law. These include reformed tenancy law, a more effective Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) and lower caps on rent increases.

Rents should not rise too much. The Greens want stricter federal rules for this. The rent brake should work better. Bills for extra housing costs should be clear.

The Greens want to back housing models geared to the common good with a dedicated funding program. Communal, cooperative and mixed-age housing projects are meant to help older people and people with disabilities live independently in familiar surroundings.

The Greens want to support new ways of living together. There will be a special funding program for this. One example is homes where young and old people live together. This helps older people live on their own for longer.

The Greens want to help municipalities with advice, digitalization and more skilled staff in building departments so that planning, climate protection and heritage tasks are handled faster. Local advisory offices are meant to encourage renovating and extending existing buildings.

The Greens want to help towns and cities with building. Building offices should get more skilled staff. Advice centers should help people renovate. To renovate means to renew an old house.

The Greens want to provide subsidized housing for at least one in ten students in Hesse, putting the state above the national average. At the federal level, the party wants more students to qualify for BAföG (federal student aid) and a housing supplement that depends on the place of study.

The Greens want more affordable housing for students. At least 10 in 100 students should have subsidized housing. More students should get student aid. In expensive cities, there should be extra money for rent.

The Greens want to strengthen youth work after the COVID-19 pandemic with a five-year action program. Mobile and outreach services are to grow, and child and youth welfare services are to work more closely with schools.

Many activities for young people were canceled during COVID. The Greens want to start a five-year program. There should be more youth work. Street work should also grow. That is social work done right on the street.

The Greens want to fully implement the state action plan against sexual violence toward children and young people as well as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Prevention and support services are to grow, and child protection clinics are to be expanded.

The Greens want to protect children better from sexual violence. There should be more advice and help. There should be more child protection clinics. Doctors there examine children who have suffered violence.

The Greens want to help parents combine work and family and to support all family types, especially single parents and rainbow families. Family centers are to be strengthened and fertility treatment subsidized more.

The Greens want to help families. Parents should be able to combine work and family. Family centers should get more support. Couples who want a child should get more money for treatment.

The Greens focus on education and care from birth to age ten because, in their view, this is where the foundations for later success are laid. Daycare, childminding and elementary schools are to cooperate more closely, and 50 additional family centers are to open within five years.

The first years of life matter a lot for children. So daycare centers and elementary schools should work together more closely. The Greens want 50 new family centers. Families get help and advice there.

The Greens want an investment package to help municipalities expand daycare and nursery places. An accompanying action plan is meant to improve quality and working conditions, including everyday helpers for non-teaching tasks.

The Greens want more places in daycare centers and nurseries. Towns and cities will get state money for this. Daycare should also get better. Helpers should take some work off the teachers.

The Greens want to tackle staff shortages in daycare centers and nurseries with more funded training places. The state is to fund 1,000 paid, practice-integrated training places for early childhood educators every year.

Daycare centers lack trained staff. The Greens want to fund 1,000 training places every year. The trainees get paid. People from other jobs should also be able to switch more easily.

The Greens want to advance inclusion in daycare centers, nurseries and childminding and to develop language support further. The Sprach-Kita (language daycare) program, formerly paid for by the federal government, is to continue with state money.

Children with and without disabilities should go to daycare together. The Greens also want better language support in daycare. The state should keep paying for language daycare centers. Children from immigrant families should get more help.

The Greens want to invest heavily in daycare, schools, vocational training and universities. The legal entitlement to education and care for elementary school children is to be put into practice as fast as possible. Every student is to get a tablet with learning software.

The Greens want to spend a lot of money on education. The money is for daycare, schools, job training and universities. Elementary school children should get a right to care. Every student should get a tablet with learning programs.

The Greens want to make dual vocational training more attractive because the number of trainees is falling. New trainee service organizations, modeled on student services, are to support trainees, for example with housing.

Fewer young people start job training. The Greens want to make this training more attractive. New trainee services should help, for example with housing. Students should learn more about jobs at school.

The Greens want to strengthen vocational training and scrap remaining tuition fees, especially for social professions. Extra incentives for shortage occupations, more training places, and a state program for career changers are meant to address the skills shortage.

Hesse lacks skilled workers. So the Greens want to strengthen job training. Some training courses still cost school fees. These fees should go. People without work should also find jobs again.

The Greens want every child to be able to attend an inclusive school while keeping the choice between inclusive schooling and a special-needs school. Inclusion is to apply from nursery through university and in leisure activities.

Children with and without disabilities should be able to learn together. The Greens want this for every child. Parents should still be able to choose a special school. Helpers at school should support the children.

The Greens want to give extra resources to schools facing particular challenges. Teacher allocation based on a social index and state-funded school social work are to be expanded, as are school psychology and school health care.

Some schools have a harder job than others. These schools should get more teachers and more help. The Greens also want more school psychologists. Every school should have a fixed service for this.

The Greens want to reorganize school transport for all grades in a way they consider fairer. Whether the cost of the Schülerticket Hessen (statewide student transit pass) is covered should no longer depend on where a student lives.

Many children take the bus or train to school. Today, where you live decides who gets the ticket paid. The Greens want to change that. Travel costs should not affect which school you choose.

The Greens want to implement the legal right to all-day care for elementary school children as quickly as possible and expand all-day schooling at secondary schools too. Each year 50 more schools should be able to become fully all-day schools; a permanent "Chancenbudget" (opportunity budget) is to pay for extra activities.

The Greens want more all-day schools. Children learn and play there in the afternoon too. Each year 50 more schools should join. Schools should also get their own money for extras, such as sports and culture.

The Greens want to provide every lower secondary student with a tablet or similar device that becomes the student's property through a rent-to-own model. At the same time, media protection, prevention work and computer science skills in schools are to be strengthened.

All students from grade 5 on should get a tablet. Those with little money can borrow one for free. Students should also learn to use the internet safely. In elementary school, reading and writing on paper stay most important.

The Greens want to develop a program for up-to-date school buildings together with the school authorities. In the party's view, schools should be designed as living spaces because children in all-day schooling spend many hours there.

Children spend a lot of time at school. So school buildings should become more modern. The Greens want to develop a program for this with the school authorities. There should be bigger classrooms and more room to move.

The Greens want a learning and exam culture with less test pressure and more individual support. Numerical grades are to be dropped before third grade, written class tests are to become less frequent, and students are to get more choice in the Abitur (university entrance exam).

The Greens want less pressure from tests. In grades 1 and 2 there should be no more grades. Instead, there are reports on how the child is developing. There should be fewer class tests. Students should have more choice in their final exams.

The Greens see multilingualism as an asset and want to promote it more deliberately. Turkish is to become a regular foreign language option, teaching content is to reflect different perspectives, and trans, intersex and non-binary students are to be able to use a self-chosen first name.

Many children speak more than one language. The Greens want to support this more. Turkish should become a normal subject that all schools can offer. Trans students should be able to use the name they choose at school.

The Greens want to develop ethics into a compulsory joint class for all students that covers different worldviews. They cite growing secularization and religious diversity; faith-based religious education is to remain alongside it.

All students should have ethics class together. There they learn about different religions and worldviews. Religion class will still exist. Islamic religion class should grow too.

The Greens want vocational and academic paths to be recognized as equal and movement between them made easier. They justify this with respect for individual strengths and the high demand for skilled workers in trained occupations.

Job training should count as much as a university degree. Students at academic high schools should also learn more about jobs. There should be more internships. The Greens want a big meeting on education, an education summit.

The Greens want to add one weekly lesson to the subject Politics and Economics in every type of school. Student councils and parents are also to get a stronger say at school, municipal and state level.

The Greens want one more lesson of politics and economics each week. This applies to all types of schools. Students should have more say in school decisions. Parents should have more say too.

The Greens want to tackle the teacher shortage with better working conditions, more training and new routes for career changers. Schools are to be allowed to add an administrative head who relieves the pedagogical head of paperwork.

The Greens want to recruit more teachers. Working conditions should get better. People from other jobs should be able to study while working. Schools should be able to have a second head for office work.

The Greens want to keep every vocational school site in Hesse and develop them into competence centers. Digital and hybrid teaching is to cut long commutes, and the state is to cover tuition at private schools for additional shortage occupations.

The Greens want to keep all vocational schools in Hesse. The schools should become specialist centers. More lessons should take place online. That means fewer long trips. For some jobs, the state should pay the school fees.

The Greens want to keep and expand easily accessible education for adults. Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and other recognized providers are to get more money, and second-chance education is to be strengthened.

The Greens want more education for adults. Adult education centers should get more money. Adults should find it easier to earn school diplomas later. A first job training should also be possible later in life.

The Greens regard teaching and research as equally important tasks of universities. Support programs for students are to become permanent, teaching-focused lectureships are to be expanded, and digital courses are to be shared across universities.

The Greens say teaching matters as much as research. Help programs for students should stay for good. There should be more posts for good teaching. Online courses should be open across all universities.

The Greens want to make it easier to switch between university and vocational training and to expand counseling for students who doubt their choice. According to the platform, the educational path should depend on interests and abilities, not on family background.

The Greens want no one to get stuck in their education. Students with doubts should get good advice. Switching paths should be easier. Family background should not decide a person's education.

The Greens want to strengthen both the basic funding of universities and top-level research. The LOEWE funding program is to become more flexible and faster, and a new fund is to ease spin-offs and the transfer of knowledge into society.

The Greens want to strengthen research in Hesse. The LOEWE funding program should decide faster. A new fund should help start-ups at universities. Knowledge should reach business and society more easily.

The Greens want results and data from state-funded research to be freely available as a rule. Universities are to be allowed by law to adopt civil clauses, meaning commitments to civilian-only research. Research on climate, AI, and peace and conflict is to be a priority.

Research paid for by the state should be free for all to read. Universities should be allowed to adopt civil clauses. That means they do research for civilian purposes only. Research on climate, artificial intelligence and peace should grow.

The Greens want to continue university autonomy and make internal decision-making more transparent. University councils are to have only an advisory role in future, while departments and senates are to be more involved.

Universities should keep deciding many things themselves. It should be clear how decisions are made. University councils should only give advice. Departments and senates should have more say.

The Greens want to fund the Studierendenwerke (student services organizations) according to their tasks through a university social pact. The state subsidy is to be in balance with students' contributions in order to curb price increases in cafeterias and dorms.

Student services run cafeterias, dorms and counseling. The Greens want to give them reliable funding. The state should pay as much as the students do. This should keep prices stable.

The Greens want to keep increasing funds under the Hochschulpakt (the state's funding agreement with universities) by four percent a year. The party rejects tuition fees, and students' administrative fees are to be phased out swiftly.

Universities should get 4 percent more money every year. There should be no tuition fees. Students now pay a fee for administration. This fee should go away soon.

The Greens want to bring universities' continuing-education offerings together in one joint center. The platform points to the high demand for skilled workers caused by economic transformation.

The economy needs many skilled workers. So universities should offer more further training. A joint center should collect the courses. Getting into science and technology should become easier.

The Greens want every child in Hesse to have access to cultural education. A pact for cultural education would anchor creative activities in schools, music schools would get more public money, and libraries would become meeting places.

Every child should be able to discover art and music. Schools should get regular activities for this. Music schools should get more public money. Their teachers should be paid better. Libraries should become places to meet and learn.

The Greens want to secure basic medical care in cities and rural areas, including through health centers, mobile practices, and community nurses. Family doctor coverage is to be strengthened, especially in underserved areas.

Everyone in Hesse should have a doctor nearby. The Greens want to fund health centers for this. Different health workers work together there. There should also be more family doctors in rural areas.

The Greens want to rewrite the state hospital plan and further increase investment funding for hospitals. Ambulance services, emergency rooms, and on-call doctors are to work together more closely.

The Greens want to renew the planning for hospitals. Hospitals should get more money for investment. Not every hospital has to offer everything. But in an emergency, a hospital must be quick to reach.

The Greens want to expand inpatient and home care services, especially day care and short-term care, along with support for family caregivers. A broader recruitment drive is meant to bring more staff into health and care professions.

The Greens want more care services. People who care for relatives should get more help. More people should work in care. Foreign qualifications should be recognized faster.

The Greens want clearing offices to help people without health insurance get coverage, and plan an anonymous health voucher for those who cannot be placed. Health promotion and prevention are also to be expanded.

Some people have no health insurance. Advice offices should help them get it. If that does not work, there will be an anonymous health voucher. With it, they can still see a doctor.

The Greens want to further strengthen local public health offices through the state office for health and care. These offices are also to protect people from heat and extreme weather, and hospitals are to get support on the path to climate neutrality.

Climate change brings more hot days. That can make people sick. The Greens want to protect people better from heat. Towns and cities should get their own heat plans. Hospitals should become climate-friendly.

The Greens want a drug policy built on education, prevention and help for people with addiction. In the platform's view, criminalizing addicts has failed to achieve its goals; the party welcomes cannabis legalization at the federal level.

The Greens want to help people with addiction instead of punishing them. There should be more therapy. There should be rooms where addicts can take drugs more safely. The Greens welcome plans to allow cannabis.

The Greens want to fund Hesse's university hospitals adequately and create more places to study medicine. The party considers the privatization of the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg (UKGM) a mistake and wants to buy it back once that is possible on acceptable terms.

The Greens want good funding for university hospitals. There should be more places to study medicine. The university hospital in Giessen and Marburg belongs to a private company. The Greens want to buy it back if the price is right.

The Greens want gender-specific differences to be given more weight in care, prevention and research, because the platform says they are currently neglected. Women's health centers are to be funded statewide and a research unit for gender medicine established. Schools and public facilities are to offer free pads and tampons.

Women and men sometimes get sick in different ways. Medicines can also work differently. The Greens want more research on this. There should be more health centers for women. Pads and tampons should be free in schools.

The Greens want to strengthen care for pregnant women and improve midwife support around birth. The basis is the set of measures from the "Runder Tisch Geburtshilfe in Hessen" (Hesse roundtable on obstetrics). The party also advocates childbirth free from violence.

Pregnant women should get better care. Midwives should support parents before, during and after birth. Hesse already has a plan for this. The Greens want to carry out this plan and improve it.

The Greens want to build a statewide network of clinics and practices that perform abortions and to fully fund pregnancy conflict counseling. At the federal level, the party supports efforts to stop treating abortion as a crime and calls for a rule against harassment outside counseling centers.

Women should be able to end a pregnancy close to where they live. There should be enough clinics and doctors for this. The state should pay fully for counseling. Nobody should harass women outside counseling centers. Abortion should no longer be a crime.

The Greens want to expand language support and integration courses and recognize foreign qualifications faster. People should have equal opportunities in education, work and housing regardless of their origin.

The Greens want to offer more German classes. This applies to children and adults. Degrees from abroad should count sooner. All people should have the same chances.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for voting rights for everyone living permanently in Germany. In Hesse, naturalization and the political representation of migrants are to be promoted and dealings with government agencies simplified.

The Greens want this: People who live here for good should be able to vote. They want to push for this at the federal level. Government offices should be easier to deal with. Key forms should come in several languages.

The Greens want Hesse to take in refugees beyond its share under the nationwide distribution and help them build a secure life. They rely on good initial care, rapid decentralized housing and legal escape routes.

The Greens want to help people who had to flee. Hesse should do more than its duty. Refugees should move quickly into normal housing. They should be able to see a doctor more easily.

The Greens want agencies to check systematically whether refugees who have lived here a long time and are well integrated can stay permanently. Switching from the asylum track to the immigration track is to become easier, also because of the skilled-labor shortage.

Some refugees have lived here a long time and are well integrated. The Greens want them to be able to stay. Government offices should check this carefully. No one should be pulled out of a job or training.

The Greens want to professionalize schooling for immigrant children and teenagers to prevent broken educational paths. Intensive language classes are to become smaller and exist at all types of schools. The party rejects deportations from schools.

The Greens want better lessons for immigrant children. German language classes should be smaller. All types of schools should offer them. No one should be deported from a school.

The Greens regard deportations as measures under the rule of law that should be carried out carefully and proportionately. Voluntary departure is to take priority. Return counseling is to be reviewed and developed further if needed.

Not all refugees can stay in Germany. The Greens want these people to go back by choice if possible. That is better than deportation. Deportations should be carried out with care. Children and families need special attention.

The Greens want to create an anti-discrimination law for Hesse and strengthen the state's anti-discrimination office. In the state constitution, protection against discrimination is to be broadened and the term "race" replaced.

The Greens want a new law against discrimination. Discrimination means people are treated worse, for example because of where they come from. The law should protect those affected. The word "race" should be removed from the Hesse constitution.

The Greens want to broaden the Action Plan for Acceptance and Diversity and reduce discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Anti-queer crimes are to be recorded separately and prosecuted by a specialized prosecutor's office.

The Greens want to protect queer people better. Queer people are, for example, lesbians, gay men and trans people. There should be more advice and help. The police should count crimes against queer people separately.

The Greens want to keep supporting Jewish communities and help make Jewish life in Hesse safe and visible. They affirm Israel's right to exist, reject the BDS campaign and want to expand exchange with Israel.

Jewish people should be able to live safely in Hesse. The Greens want to keep supporting Jewish communities. They want to fight hatred of Jews. Hesse and Israel should work closely together.

The Greens want to reduce discrimination at universities, strengthen anti-discrimination officers and support women's academic careers. International students and researchers are to be welcomed, and those who have fled their countries are to keep receiving scholarships.

The Greens want less discrimination at universities. Anti-discrimination officers should get more powers. Women in science should get support. Refugee researchers and students keep getting scholarships.

The Greens want women to be better represented in politics, business and culture. State-owned companies are to fill half of their board seats with women, the equal rights act is to be developed further, and the party backs steps toward gender-balanced parliaments.

The Greens want more women in important positions. In state-owned companies, half of the board members should be women. More women should sit in parliaments too. Women's officers in towns should get more weight.

The Greens want to close the pay gap between women and men and encourage a more equal split of family and care work. Single parents are to be supported through counseling and more childcare.

On average, women earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. Men and women should share family work more fairly. There should be more childcare, also early, late and on weekends. Single parents should find help more easily.

The Greens want more women in technical and scientific jobs, in professorships and among founders. At the same time, care professions are to be upgraded and more boys and men recruited for childcare and nursing.

More women should work in technology and science. At universities, every second professor should be a woman. Women who start a business should get more help. More men should work in nursing and childcare.

The Greens want to fully implement the Istanbul Convention and expand support services for women affected by violence across Hesse. An emergency program is to create 300 additional family places in shelters and transitional housing.

Many women and children face violence at home. The Greens want more places in women's shelters. An emergency program should quickly add 300 places for families. Counseling centers and helplines should also get more money.

The Greens want killings of women because of their gender, and attempts at them, to be listed separately in crime statistics. A Hesse femicide study is to accompany this and provide a basis for prevention. Prevention work and offender programs are also to be expanded.

Some women are killed because they are women. This is called femicide. The Greens want to count these crimes separately. A study should show how to prevent them. Work with offenders should also be expanded.

The Greens want rape victims everywhere in Hesse to get quick medical help and have evidence secured without having to file a police report. At the federal level, the party wants to push for a reform of the rape provision in criminal law so that offenders can be convicted more easily.

After a rape, victims need help fast. The Greens want this help to be available all over Hesse. Doctors should secure evidence even without a police report. The law on rape should also change. Courts should then be able to convict offenders more easily.

The Greens want to take action against human trafficking and better protect women from prostitution driven by poverty or coercion. Those who want to leave prostitution are to receive counseling, medical care and courses. Projects against female genital mutilation are to keep receiving funding.

The Greens want to fight human trafficking. Women should not be forced into prostitution. Women who want to stop should get help. This includes counseling, health care and language courses. They should also get help finding housing and work.

The Greens want to protect Jews and Jewish sites and fight antisemitism as a societal problem. Antisemitic crimes and incidents are to be recorded, and reporting and counseling centers funded. Education and prevention programs are to be supported.

Jewish people should be able to live safely in Hesse. The Greens want to protect Jewish places. They want to fight hatred of Jews. Attacks and incidents should be counted. There should be money for reporting centers and advice.

The Greens want to develop an action plan against racism for all of Hesse together with researchers and associations. They want to raise awareness that certain terms are hurtful and discriminatory. According to the platform, the goal is a diverse and inclusive society.

The Greens want to act against racism. They want to make a plan for all of Hesse. Researchers and associations should help. People should understand that some words hurt others. All people should have equal rights and respect.

The Greens want to step up wind power expansion to at least 500 megawatts a year. Designated priority areas are to be built on quickly and more are to be designated, with a goal of at least 2.2 percent of the state's land. Permits are to be issued faster.

The Greens want many more wind turbines in Hesse. Each year, 500 megawatts of new turbines should be added. More land should be set aside for this. Offices should approve turbines faster. Citizens should be able to own a share.

The Greens want to make solar installations mandatory on all new buildings and support builders with low-cost loans. The expansion of photovoltaics and solar thermal is to speed up overall. Solar installations are to go primarily on land that is already sealed.

The Greens want every new building to have solar panels. This should be required. People who build should get cheap loans for it. Solar panels should mainly go on roofs and parking lots. Good farmland should stay free.

The Greens want a heat supply that comes entirely from renewable sources. To that end, all municipalities are to be required to draw up heat plans, and more buildings are to get energy retrofits. Advice and funding are to be expanded and simplified.

The Greens want heating to become climate-friendly. Every town must make a heat plan for this. More homes should be upgraded so they need less energy. There should be more advice and money from the state. People with little money should get extra help.

The Greens want to expand power grids, energy storage and hydrogen infrastructure so that renewable energy can be used at any time. A funding program is to advance the building of storage. Green hydrogen is to be used where electrification is hard to achieve.

Wind and sun do not always make the same amount of power. So the Greens want to build more power storage. The state should give money for this. Power grids should get better too. Hydrogen should help where electricity alone is not enough.

The Greens want Hesse to be climate neutral by 2035 at the latest and commit to the 1.5-degree target. The state climate plan is to become more binding, be reviewed every year and be tightened where needed.

Hesse should be climate neutral by 2035. That means the state no longer harms the climate. The Greens want to check the climate plan every year. The state's own offices should be climate neutral by 2030.

The Greens want to give cities, counties and municipalities more advice and funding for climate protection. Climate protection and adaptation are to become more binding there and get predictable financing.

Towns and cities matter for climate protection. The Greens want to advise them and give them money. Climate protection should become a fixed part of their work. The federal government, states and towns should pay for it together.

The Greens want to prepare Hesse for the effects of global heating and develop funding programs and guidelines for this. An action program for natural climate protection is to strengthen peatlands, forests and soils.

The climate is changing. Hesse should prepare for this. The Greens want to protect peatlands, forests and soils. Cities should store rainwater better. That means less damage from floods.

The Greens want swift energy retrofits of publicly owned housing and want to advance the heating transition with advice, funding and fewer legal hurdles. Cities and villages are also to be better prepared for heat, heavy rain and flooding.

Buildings should use less energy. State-owned homes should lead the way. There should be more solar panels. Cities should become greener so summers are cooler.

The Greens want to advance the shift to clean energy and heating at universities with a HEUREKA KLIMA program and provide money for building maintenance. Universities that wish to are to get autonomy over their construction projects.

University buildings should become more climate-friendly. The Greens plan a program called HEUREKA KLIMA for this. There should also be money to maintain buildings. Universities may decide on their own building projects if they want.

The Greens want to steer the siting of data centers through transparent regional planning because, in the platform's view, unregulated construction endangers Hesse's climate targets. At least 30 percent of waste heat is to be used. "Green IT" is to become the guiding principle for procurement and planning by the state and municipalities.

Data centers need a lot of electricity. They also give off a lot of heat. The Greens want to plan where new data centers may be built. At least 30 percent of the heat should be used, for example for heating. The state should buy energy-saving computer technology.

The Greens want to invest €1 billion in protecting biodiversity by 2030. They also plan a reforestation and forest development program that the platform calls the largest in the state's history. Groundwater reserves are to be secured as well.

The Greens want to protect nature in Hesse. By 2030, one billion euros should go to animals and plants. Many new trees should be planted. Groundwater should be protected too.

The Greens want to reverse the decline of endangered animal and plant species and reach the global goal of 30 percent protected areas. A total of 1 billion euros is to be invested for this by 2030.

Many animals and plants are at risk. The Greens want more protected areas. They want to spend 1 billion euros on this by 2030. A small part of the state should become wilderness.

The Greens want to rely on prevention and help with damage in conflicts over returning species such as wolves, beavers or otters. In individual cases, wolves showing problem behavior may be killed.

Wolves, beavers and otters live in Hesse again. This sometimes causes conflict. The Greens want to help people who suffer damage. They also want to help prevent damage. Problem wolves may be shot in single cases.

The Greens want to further cut the use of pesticides in order to improve insect diversity. Protected areas and waters are to be shielded by buffer strips.

Pesticides are poisons against pests. They also harm many insects. The Greens want fewer pesticides. There should be poison-free strips next to protected areas and waters.

The Greens want to launch a large forest development program and align Hesse's forest law with nature conservation, climate protection and recreation. In case of conflict, protection goals are to take priority over use.

Many forests in Hesse are dying. The Greens want a big program for forests. Protecting nature and climate should matter more than using the forest. More forest should be left alone.

The Greens want to introduce a Wassercent, a levy on water extraction, to pay for sustainable water projects. Groundwater extraction is to be licensed and monitored more strictly.

The climate crisis makes water scarcer. The Greens want a new charge on water. It is called the Wassercent. The money pays for water projects. Groundwater should be better protected.

The Greens want the potash industry to end its discharges by 2027 at the latest and to cover its waste heaps completely. In permits for mining, clean drinking water is to take priority.

Potash mining pollutes rivers and groundwater. From 2027, no more wastewater should be discharged. The waste heaps should be covered. Leftover material should go back underground. Drinking water matters more than mining.

The Greens want to limit daily land consumption in Hesse to no more than one hectare by 2030. In the long run, there should be no net loss of open land at all.

A lot of land in Hesse gets built on. The Greens want to limit this strongly. From 2030 it should be one hectare a day at most. Later, no extra land should be lost at all.

The Greens want to close material loops and turn the state waste management plan into a zero-waste strategy. This includes more recycling, less food waste, and statewide monitoring of raw materials.

The Greens want less waste. Materials should be used again and again. Building materials should be reused too. Less food should end up in the trash.

The Greens want to give animal welfare organizations in Hesse standing to sue, as already exists in environmental law. They also support a ban on wild animals in circuses and want to curb private keeping of wild animals and breeding that causes suffering.

Animal welfare groups should be able to go to court for animals. Wild animals should no longer perform in circuses. Fewer people should keep wild animals at home. The Greens also want fewer animal tests.

The Greens call for higher animal welfare standards in farming and for tying livestock numbers to available land. Long transports of live animals are to become largely unnecessary, and transports to countries outside the EU are to be banned.

Farm animals should have better lives. A farm should only keep as many animals as its land allows. Long trips with live animals should mostly end. Transports to countries outside the EU should be banned.

The Greens want a new hunting law that gives more weight to animal welfare, climate, and the environment. Endangered species would no longer be hunted, and culling plans for roe deer would be dropped.

The Greens want a new law for hunting. It should protect animals, the climate, and nature better. Nobody should hunt endangered animals anymore. Fixed shooting plans for roe deer should end.

The Greens want organic farming to make up 30 percent of agriculture in Hesse by 2030. At the same time, all farming is to become more sustainable, including through less pesticide use and lower nutrient runoff.

The Greens want more organic farming in Hesse. By 2030 it should reach 30 percent. Other farms should also protect nature more. Farmers should use fewer chemical sprays.

The Greens want to protect diverse farm ownership with an agricultural structure law and support people starting farms. Regional value chains are to be strengthened to counter the loss of farms.

The Greens want to keep small and varied farms. A new law should help with that. People who start a farm should get help and land. State canteens should buy more food from the region.

The Greens want Hesse to remain free of genetically modified crops and of breeding or keeping genetically modified animals. This is meant to include new genetic engineering techniques in cultivation. Products containing GMOs are to be labeled.

The Greens want no genetic engineering on fields in Hesse. This also covers newer gene techniques. There should be no gene-modified farm animals either. Products must say so if they contain such ingredients.

The Greens want municipalities to decide for themselves on speed limits in built-up areas and to step up speed checks. The goal is "Vision Zero," meaning road traffic with no deaths or serious injuries. All modes of transportation are to be linked on equal terms.

Cities and towns should decide on 30 km/h limits themselves. They should also check speeds more often. The Greens want no one to die in traffic anymore. Buses, trains, bikes and cars should work well together.

The Greens want to build at least 250 kilometers of separated bike lanes in the next term and get at least ten bike highways underway. On top of that come 250 new crossings for pedestrians and cyclists. Towns are to offer short, safe and barrier-free routes for walking.

The Greens want to build more bike lanes. There should be at least 250 kilometers of new ones. Ten fast bike routes should be added. There should be 250 new road crossings. Sidewalks and routes to school should get safer too.

The Greens want a statewide mobility guarantee: buses and trains are to run at least once an hour everywhere, every day between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. Low-cost flat-rate tickets are to be developed further and the rail network expanded. Municipalities are to be allowed to levy charges to fund public transit.

The Greens want more buses and trains. In every town, a bus or train should run every hour. This applies from 5 in the morning until 11 at night. Tickets should stay cheap. New rail lines should be built.

The Greens want to reduce car traffic in Hesse by one third by 2030. At the same time, a statewide network of charging stations is to be built so vehicles can run on electricity. The platform follows the principle of avoiding, shifting and improving traffic.

The Greens want less car traffic in Hesse. By 2030 it should be one third less. Cars should run on electricity. For this, there should be charging stations everywhere. Car sharing should help too. In car sharing, people share one car.

The Greens want to give priority to repairing roads and especially bridges. They reject the planned construction and widening of autobahns in the federal transport infrastructure plan as misguided. At the federal level, they push for a new plan aligned with the Paris climate goals.

The Greens want to fix old roads and bridges first. They think new or wider highways are wrong. The federal government has a plan for roads and rail. The Greens want a new plan. It should fit with climate protection.

The Greens want to replace flights with greener transportation wherever possible and make the remaining air traffic climate neutral. At the federal level, they call for cutting subsidies for aviation and for stricter noise protection laws. Burdens around Frankfurt Airport are to go down.

Flying harms the climate. So the Greens want fewer flights. People should take the train more often. The government should stop supporting flying with money. It should get quieter around Frankfurt Airport.

The Greens want a night flight ban from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at Frankfurt Airport to relieve residents. Hesse's other airfields are to become climate neutral and receive less public money.

The Greens want less aircraft noise at night. No planes should fly from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The federal government must change a law for this. Small airfields should get less money from the state.

The Greens want to speed up the rollout of fiber and mobile networks in Hesse so that digital participation does not depend on income or location. The party sees fast networks in rural areas, too, as part of basic public services.

Everyone in Hesse should have fast internet. This should also be true in the countryside. So the Greens want more fiber lines and better cell phone coverage. The party sees good networks as a basic service.

The Greens want everyone to be able to move safely online and stay in control of their own data. Illegal trade on the internet is to be fought while anonymity for legal use is preserved. The party also wants to counter fake news, hate and incitement online.

The Greens want to make the internet safer. Everyone should control their own data. People who do nothing illegal should be able to stay anonymous. The party wants to act against criminals online. It also wants to act against hate and lies on the internet.

The Greens want to launch a media literacy campaign offering affordable learning opportunities to people of all ages. No one is to be excluded from the digital world, regardless of gender, age, origin or money.

Everyone should be able to use digital media. The Greens want low-cost courses for all ages. Older people should get more help. More women should also work in tech jobs.

The Greens want to promote freely available knowledge, for example through open access, open data and free licenses. Software paid for with public money is to be open under the principle "public money, public code." Hesse's artworks, monuments and archives are to be digitized and made freely accessible online.

Knowledge should be free for everyone. If the state pays for software, its code should be open. The Greens also want to digitize art and old documents. Then everyone can see them online.

The Greens want to modernize the state administration so that it works faster, more efficiently and more transparently. Digital services are to be accessible and easy to use. Smaller municipalities are to get help with digital infrastructure through a "Pakt für die Verwaltung" (pact for public administration).

Public offices should work faster and more simply. Many things should be possible online. The services should be easy to use, also for old and disabled people. Small towns should get help from the state.

In response to growing cyberattacks, the Greens want more training for specialists and more support for Hesse's cybersecurity institutions. At the same time, public research on artificial intelligence is to receive more funding so that Hesse takes a leading position among the German states.

There are more and more attacks on computer systems. The Greens want better training for experts. Hesse should also do more research on artificial intelligence. These are computer programs that learn by themselves. The research should serve people.

The Greens want to equip the police better while correcting problems that have developed within the force. A new mission statement is to describe police work in a pluralistic society. The justice system is to keep adding staff, and proceedings are to move faster.

The Greens want to give the police better equipment. Problems inside the police should be fixed. The police should get a new mission statement. That is a text that says how they want to work. The courts should get more staff and work faster.

The Greens reject blanket video or audio surveillance of public spaces. Preventive approaches with little coercion, such as crime prevention through urban design, are to take priority over surveillance. The platform argues that ever more laws do not automatically bring more security.

The Greens do not want cameras everywhere in streets and squares. They also do not want microphones everywhere. Other ways to stop crime are better. One example is well-planned, safe public places. Police should use smart cameras only in targeted cases.

The Greens want measures that interfere with civil rights to be tied to strict legal conditions. In the platform's view, the EU's plans for so-called chat control do not meet these standards. Online crime should still be prosecuted consistently.

Some state measures limit people's rights. The Greens want strict rules for this. For strong measures, a judge should agree first. The Greens reject the EU plan to scan private chats. Police should still go after crime on the internet.

The Greens want to combat right-wing extremism and other forms of extremism and enable security agencies to detect networks faster. At the same time, prevention programs, youth and social work, and civic education are to be expanded. The platform sees right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to democracy.

The Greens want to fight extremism. They see the biggest danger on the far right. Police and agencies should spot such groups faster. There should be more programs to prevent extremism. Civic education should grow too.

The Greens want to tighten gun laws through the Bundesrat and back the federal government's plans in that direction. In Hesse, gun owners are to be checked more often. According to the platform, extremists should not have weapons.

The Greens want stricter rules for guns. They want to make proposals in the Bundesrat, the chamber of the states. People who want a gun should be checked more closely. Hesse should check gun owners more often. Extremists should not have guns.

The Greens want good working conditions and modern equipment for the police. New positions should go where the need is greatest, with a focus on local stations and patrols. The fight against extremism, organized crime and online crime is also to be stepped up.

The Greens want good working conditions for the police. Police should get modern technology and protective gear. Local police stations and patrols should become stronger. Police should do more against extremism and internet crime. Police and social workers should work together more closely.

The Greens want to implement the expert commission's proposals for a fresh start in the police, including a new mission statement. A pilot project with receipts for police stops is meant to show whether racial profiling occurs. Far-right attitudes within the police are to be countered with all legal means.

Everyone should be able to trust the police. So the Greens want to change the police. In a trial, people should get a receipt after a police stop. This should show whether police stop people because of how they look. Far-right views should have no place in the police.

The Greens want to evaluate the office of the citizens' and police commissioner and develop it further with experts. It is to receive more powers and be expanded. People affected by police violence and misconduct should be able to get help there safely.

Hesse has a commissioner for citizens and the police. People can complain about the police there. The Greens want to review this office and make it stronger. It should get more powers. Victims of police violence should get safe help there.

The Greens want to draw further consequences from the inquiries into the NSU murders, the murder of Walter Lübcke and the Hanau attack. According to the platform, security agencies failed in their duty to protect in these cases. Hesse is to take part in building a central federal NSU archive.

There were inquiries into the NSU murders, the murder of Walter Lübcke and the Hanau attack. The Greens say the agencies made mistakes. The Greens want to learn from them. Hesse should help build an NSU archive.

The Greens want to continue restructuring the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which the platform says has often failed at its task. Academic expertise, staff qualifications and parliamentary oversight are to be strengthened. The use of informants is to remain a last resort and be reviewed.

The domestic intelligence agency should spot dangers to democracy early. The Greens say this often did not work well. So they want to keep changing the agency. Parliament should check the agency more closely. The agency should watch the internet better.

The Greens want fire departments, rescue services and disaster response to be well funded, staffed and equipped. Equipment is to be adapted to climate change effects such as heavy rain, floods and wildfires. Warning systems such as sirens and apps should reach everyone.

Fire departments and rescue services help people in need. The Greens want to give them more money and better gear. Climate change brings more floods and forest fires. Fire departments should be ready for this. Sirens and warning apps should reach all people.

The Greens want to step up the prosecution of crimes committed online, such as child pornography and drug or weapons trafficking. The ZIT cybercrime unit at the Frankfurt public prosecutor general's office is to get more staff for this.

The Greens want to fight crime on the internet more strongly. This includes child pornography and trade in drugs or weapons. A special office in Frankfurt deals with this. It should get more staff.

The Greens do not want minor rule violations to be punished with prison sentences, which would also ease the burden on the courts. In their view, riding without a ticket and so-called dumpster diving should no longer be crimes.

The Greens no longer want to treat small violations as crimes. One example is riding without a ticket. Another is taking food that stores have thrown away. This should give the courts less work.

The Greens want to do more to prevent crime. They plan additional Häuser des Jugendrechts (juvenile justice centers) and a risk management system meant to stop violations of restraining orders and protect women and children from violence.

The Greens want to stop crimes before they happen. Young people should not become criminals. For this, there should be more juvenile justice centers. There, police, courts and youth services work together. Women and children should be better protected from violent offenders.

The Greens regard reintegrating prisoners as the main goal of the prison system and as protection against new crimes. They want to expand programs in prisons, pay inmates more for their work, and avoid jail time for unpaid fines more often.

Prisoners should live without crime after their release. For this, the Greens want more support in prison. This includes education, counseling and therapy. Prisoners should get more money for their work. People who cannot pay a fine should not go to prison for that reason.

The Greens want to give crime victims better support during and after proceedings. Support organizations are to receive more funding, and Hesse's victims' fund is to be made permanent and expanded.

The Greens want to help victims of crime better. Support centers should get more help. Victims should quickly get advice, therapy and money. A state fund for victims should stay and grow.

The Greens want 16-year-olds to be able to vote in state and local elections. A youth council and additional formats are meant to give young people a permanent say. The platform argues that children and young people have a right to participate.

The Greens want young people to vote at age 16. This applies to state and local elections. There should also be a youth council. Young people can have a lasting say there.

The Greens want greater recognition for volunteering and more discounts tied to the Ehrenamts-Card (volunteer card). The state's support programs are to be pooled and voluntary service years made more attractive.

Many people help for free. The Greens want to thank them. The volunteer card should bring more benefits. People should be able to get it after just one year.

The Greens want a state law to secure long-term funding for initiatives that promote democracy and oppose extremism. The Marburg Democracy Center, the related state program and committed organizations are to be strengthened further. Services are to be expanded and brought more into rural regions.

Many groups in Hesse work for democracy. The Greens want a new law for them. The law should give these groups reliable money. Advice centers should stay for the long term. Rural areas should get more services too.

The Greens want to make local councils more diverse and flexible and involve residents more. To that end, citizens' councils chosen by lot, a public question time and legally secure digital meetings are to become possible. Volunteer council members are to get stronger oversight rights.

The Greens want to change politics in towns and cities. Residents should have more say. There should be citizens' councils. Their members are picked by lot. Meetings should also be possible online. Children's and youth parliaments should become stronger.

The Greens want to modernize the state administration and cut unnecessary bureaucracy so that planning and implementation become faster. Employees are to get flexible working hours, remote-work rules and up-to-date equipment. Lateral entry into public service is to become easier.

The Greens want to make public offices more modern. Rules and forms that are not needed should go. Then offices can work faster. Staff should be able to work flexibly, also from home. People from other jobs should be able to start in public service more easily.

The Greens want to strengthen the judiciary's independence from the executive and will examine more judicial self-administration and limits on the ministry's power to instruct prosecutors. At the same time, justice-sector jobs are to become more attractive so that positions are filled quickly. This includes better starting pay and modern working conditions.

Courts should be independent of the government. The Greens will look at letting judges manage more themselves. The ministry should be able to give prosecutors fewer orders. Jobs in the justice system should become more attractive. There should be better starting pay and modern workplaces.

The Greens want court proceedings in Hesse to take less time on average. To that end, vacancies are to be filled quickly, video hearings are to become routine, and legal education is to be modernized.

The Greens want faster court cases. Open jobs at courts should be filled quickly. More hearings should take place by video. Law school should also become more modern.

The Greens want to talk with the churches in Hesse about phasing out the Staatskirchenleistungen (historic state payments to churches). The condition is that the federal government first creates a framework for this.

The state pays the churches money every year because of old obligations. These payments should end one day. The Greens want to talk about this with the churches in Hesse. But first the federal government has to make a rule for it.

The Greens want to reform the European Union toward a Federal European Republic. National vetoes are to be abolished, and the European Parliament is to gain the right to propose laws itself.

The Greens want to make the EU stronger. Single countries should no longer be able to block decisions alone. The European Parliament should be allowed to propose laws itself. The EU should spend more money on climate protection and social issues.

The Greens want citizens of other EU countries to be able to vote in Hesse's state elections. They see this as a step toward a European citizenship.

People from other EU countries should be allowed to vote for the state parliament in Hesse. That is what the Greens want. They want a European citizenship one day. Information centers about Europe should also get support.

The Greens want to enable more European exchange, especially for young people. Every student and apprentice should be able to take part in a project elsewhere in Europe regardless of their parents' income; public administration staff should also be able to go on exchanges.

Young people should experience Europe themselves. Every student and every apprentice should be able to do a project abroad. Their parents' money should not matter. Staff of public offices should also be able to go abroad. Hesse should work more closely with partner regions.

The Greens want to align Hesse's development cooperation and foreign trade policy with values and feminist principles. Trade agreements should secure human rights as well as social and environmental standards, and visas should be easier to obtain for certain travelers.

Hesse should pay attention to values when trading with other countries. These include human rights, fair work and protecting the environment. The Greens want to promote fair trade in cities and towns. People from outside Europe should get a visa more easily, for example for culture or science.

The Greens want to implement the state's "Masterplan Kultur" and keep raising the culture budget to do so. A culture funding act would set guidelines for state support, and a culture advisory board would advise and connect the arts scene.

The Greens want to spend more money on culture. Hesse has a plan for culture. They want to carry out this plan. A new law should set rules for how the state funds culture. A board of people from the arts should give advice.

The Greens want to improve artists' social security through fairer pay. The state is to lead by example, for instance with a minimum fee for exhibitions at state museums. There should also be more affordable studios and workspaces.

The Greens want artists to be paid better. State museums should pay a minimum fee for exhibitions. Funding rules should also demand fair pay. Artists should find cheap workspaces more easily.

The Greens stand by documenta in Kassel and want a thorough reckoning with the antisemitic incidents at documenta fifteen. The expert panel's recommendations are to be implemented and the art show's structures reworked.

Documenta is a big art show in Kassel. The Greens want to keep it. At the last documenta there were anti-Jewish incidents. The Greens want these incidents examined closely. The way the show is run should be reorganized.

The Greens want to open the cultural sector to the whole of society. Women, queer people and groups that have been underrepresented are to become more visible in the arts, and institutions are to become more accessible and inclusive.

The Greens want culture to be there for everyone. Women and queer people should be more visible in the arts. Disadvantaged artists should get special support. Cultural venues should have fewer barriers.

The Greens want to end Hesse's ban on dancing on certain public holidays and days of remembrance. Religious ceremonies would still take priority on those days, and municipalities could prohibit individual events in public squares.

On some holidays, dancing is banned in Hesse. The Greens want to end this ban. Religious ceremonies should still come first on these days. Towns may forbid single events in public squares.

The Greens want to give more support to subculture and club culture, which have had little funding so far. A dedicated state funding line for artists and event organizers is to be set up.

Clubs and small music scenes get little money so far. The Greens want to change that. The state should fund artists and organizers. There should also be new ideas for supporting pop music.

The Greens want to introduce a "Hessenpass Kultur und Freizeit" (culture and leisure pass) for people on low incomes that reduces admission prices statewide. In the party's view, out-of-school education should not depend on parents' money.

The Greens want to introduce a new pass. It is called the Hessenpass for culture and leisure. People with little money get it. With it they pay less for admission across Hesse. Young people should get into museums for free more often.

The Greens want to expand cultural offerings outside the metropolitan areas. The "Landkulturperlen" rural culture program is to grow statewide, regional culture managers are to be deployed, and sociocultural centers and mobile offerings are to get more funding.

There should be plenty of culture in the countryside too. The Greens want to fund more projects there. Every region should have culture managers. Touring theaters and festivals should get more money. Buses should bring rural people to the big theaters.

The Greens want to preserve cultural monuments for the long term and found a "Hessische Bauhütte" (heritage building workshop) to do so. Museums, palaces and gardens are to get modern visitor concepts, and archives are to be digitized quickly.

The Greens want to preserve old buildings and monuments. A new building workshop should look after them. Skilled craftspeople work together there. Museums and palaces should become more modern for visitors. Archives should put their holdings in digital form.

The Greens want cultural institutions to operate in a more resource-saving way. Every state cultural institution is to draw up a sustainability plan, and a "Green Culture Pass" is to serve as a guide.

Cultural institutions should be kinder to the environment. Every state institution should write a plan for this. A guide should help them. It is called the Green Culture Pass.

The Greens want to keep supporting museums in dealing with Nazi-looted art and collections from colonial contexts. Provenance research is to be expanded, and a legal framework for returns is to be created.

Museums hold objects from colonial times and art stolen in the Nazi era. The Greens want their origins researched more closely. There should be rules for giving things back. A new professorship should study colonial heritage in Hesse.

The Greens want to keep alive the memory of the Shoah and of the genocide of Sinti and Roma and to counter antisemitism and antigypsyism. The state agency for civic education is to be strengthened.

The Greens want to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. They oppose hatred of Jews and of Sinti and Roma. Trips to memorial sites should get more support. The state agency for civic education should become stronger.

The Greens want to preserve media diversity in Hesse and stand by public broadcasting funded through the license fee. The broadcasting council is to reflect society better, and nonprofit journalism is to find it easier to fund itself through donations.

The Greens want many different media in Hesse. Public broadcasting should still be paid for by the license fee. It should become more independent of politics. Nonprofit journalism should get donations more easily.

The Greens want to expand film funding in Hesse to make it a more attractive production location. Cinema funding is to be made permanent and refocused, especially to benefit cinemas in rural areas.

The Greens want to give more money for films from Hesse. Young filmmakers should get special support. Cinemas should get lasting money for investments. This applies above all to cinemas in the countryside.

The Greens want to give the Hesse consumer advice center more funding and continue the state's nutrition strategy. Taking discarded food from bins, known as dumpster diving, should no longer be a crime.

The consumer advice center in Hesse should get more money. People in rural areas should get advice too. Some people take thrown-away food from store bins. The Greens want this to no longer be punished.

The Greens want equal living conditions in rural areas and plan to continue the state's rural action plan permanently. Plans include faster broadband and mobile coverage, local shops, cultural funding, and livelier village centers.

Half of the people in Hesse live in the countryside. Life there should be as good as in cities. The Greens want fast internet and shops nearby. Village centers and country inns should be kept alive.

The Greens want to keep supporting sports clubs and volunteers in sports and ease their burden. Every child should be able to do sports close to home and learn to swim. To that end, swimming pools are to be preserved and sports facilities renovated in line with climate goals.

The Greens want to support sports clubs. Every child should be able to do sports nearby. Every child should be able to learn to swim. Swimming pools should be kept open. Children in sports should be protected from violence.