Deepen cooperation with neighboring countries and regions
The SPD wants to expand ties with France, Austria and Switzerland, especially in transport, education and research. Border controls should not become permanent. It calls on Switzerland to set firm shutdown dates for its nuclear plants and to give the state a say on the waste repository.
The SPD wants to work more closely with neighboring countries. Trains across the border should get better. The Deutschlandticket should be valid there too. Border checks should not stay forever. Old nuclear plants in Switzerland should be shut down.
Transport gaps on the Upper Rhine would be closed, rail lines such as Stuttgart–Zurich expanded, and fares in border regions harmonized. Exchange programs would also be open to pupils from all school types and to apprentices. The SPD supports ratifying the EU–Switzerland agreements and demands the shutdown of Beznau I and II as well as an equal say on the repository and the expansion of Zurich Airport. With the "Four Motors for Europe" regions, it wants to push jointly for new EU state aid rules for the auto industry. The German-American centers are also to be strengthened.
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„Wir setzen uns dafür ein, dass das Deutschlandticket und das Baden-Württemberg-Ticket künftig auch für grenzüberschreitende Verbindungen nach Frankreich und in die Schweiz gelten.“Translation: We will work to ensure that the Deutschlandticket and the Baden-Württemberg-Ticket will in the future also be valid for cross-border connections to France and Switzerland.
Placement
- Europeleaning more EU
More cross-border cooperation, defending Schengen freedoms and backing the EU–Switzerland agreements incrementally strengthen European integration.
- Migrationleaning open
The current border controls are not to remain permanently, which opposes making the restrictive practice permanent.