Build a social EU with a financial transaction tax
The Left wants to develop the EU into a social union with equal social rights and comparable living conditions. A European financial transaction tax would give the EU more revenue of its own so that climate policy does not overburden people on low and middle incomes. The party also calls for a humanitarian refugee policy.
The Left wants a social EU. The same social rights should apply all over Europe. The EU should tax financial trades. It should use the money to ease the cost of climate action for people. The EU should treat refugees humanely.
According to the platform, what it calls the neoliberal orientation of the EU Commission must be overcome. The party wants to push for sufficient structural funds and assert eastern German interests such as demographic change and the need to catch up. In the conference of Europe ministers, the Bundesrat and the Committee of the Regions, it wants to back initiatives for more social rights and against sealing off the EU. Partnerships with Małopolska and Hauts-de-France, exchange programs and events by the European Information Center would continue to be supported.
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„braucht es mehr eigene Mittel der EU. Deshalb fordert Die Linke eine europäische Finanztransaktionssteuer.“Translation: the EU needs more funds of its own. That is why the Left calls for a European financial transaction tax.
Placement
- Economyclearly more state
A newly introduced tax on financial transactions and equal social rights across Europe mean markedly more redistribution and regulation.
- Europeclearly more EU
A new EU-wide tax as an own resource and the move to a social union give the EU revenue sources and powers it does not have today.
- Climatebalanced
The party backs the EU climate targets while also demanding financial relief for low and middle incomes.
- Migrationleaning open
The party opposes sealing off the EU and supports initiatives for a humanitarian refugee policy.