Grüne on foreign affairs and defence

From the program “Moving Saxony Forward Together – Our Platform for the 2024 Saxony State Election”

2024 Saxony state election, September 1, 2024Original PDF, 148 pagesAnalyzed on October 3, 2026

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Civil liberties and securityleaning civil liberties first (-1), from 1 point
Points per step: 0 clearly civil liberties first, 1 leaning civil liberties first, 0 balanced, 0 leaning security and order first, 0 clearly security and order first
Foreign policybalanced (-0.5), from 2 points
Points per step: 0 clearly diplomacy first, 1 leaning diplomacy first, 1 balanced, 0 leaning deterrence first, 0 clearly deterrence first

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Expand the state's development cooperation

The Greens want Saxony to align itself with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and to strengthen its development cooperation. Partner countries are to be able to run sustainable economies, develop democratically and hold their own against authoritarian states.

The Greens want Saxony to help poorer countries more. Partner countries should be able to do business in a green and lasting way. Saxony should build more know-how for this. The partnership with Uganda should grow stronger.

All policy areas and institutions of the state are to work toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cooperation by regions, municipalities, schools, universities and chambers of crafts with partners worldwide is to be supported, for instance on climate change, demographics and structural change. State institutions are to build more expertise, and Saxon companies are to get help with cooperation with development partners. The partnership with Uganda is to be strengthened through networks, project funding and meeting spaces with civil society organizations.

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„Dazu wollen wir in Sachsen die Fachkompetenzen für nachhaltige, beidseitig nutzbringende wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit in den Landesinstitutionen ausbauen“

Translation: To this end we want to expand, in Saxony's state institutions, the expertise for sustainable, mutually beneficial economic cooperation

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Placement

Foreign policyleaning diplomacy first
The point expands development cooperation and civilian partnerships as tools of external relations.

Support Ukraine, protect dissidents

The Greens want Saxony to help rebuild Ukraine and to protect people who have fled dictatorships. Saxony's police are not to cooperate with authoritarian regimes.

The Greens want Saxony to help rebuild Ukraine. Saxony should protect people who fled from dictatorships. The police should not work with dictatorships. The state parliament should have to approve police missions abroad.

Help for Ukraine is to focus on cultural assets and on the legal prosecution of Russian war crimes. Every deployment of Saxon police officers abroad is to require approval by the state parliament. Dissidents who have fled are to live safely and speak freely, and human rights defenders from culture, journalism and academia are to get protected spaces for their work in exile. Foreign-language media that counter propaganda from authoritarian states are to be funded. The Greens ground this in their roots in the East German civil rights movement and also want to support antifascist engagement and democracy education.

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„Wir wollen dafür sorgen, dass Sachsen beim Wiederaufbau der Ukraine helfen wird, insbesondere bei der Rettung und Wiederherstellung von Kulturgütern“

Translation: We want to make sure that Saxony will help with the reconstruction of Ukraine, especially with rescuing and restoring cultural assets

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Placement

Civil liberties and securityleaning civil liberties first
Police deployments abroad are to require parliamentary approval, and cooperation with authoritarian regimes is to be ruled out.
Foreign policybalanced
The point sides clearly with Ukraine but limits help to civilian means such as culture and justice.

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