SPD on foreign affairs and defence

The SPD commits to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and wants to measure their implementation in Bremen every two years. Bremen's engagement for countries of the Global South, especially in southern Africa, is to continue reliably.

The United Nations agreed on goals for a better world. The SPD wants to carry out these goals in Bremen. Every two years, Bremen should check its progress. Bremen should keep helping poorer countries, above all in southern Africa.

Indicators are to show progress and where action is needed on the Sustainable Development Goals; civil society and other actors are to be involved. In southern Africa, Bremen wants to support building municipal infrastructure. The SPD wants to examine taking part in programs for recruiting and exchanging skilled workers from the Global South, for example with the GIZ (German development agency). It wants to stay active in networks such as "Mayors for Peace" and "Cities Against the Death Penalty." Funding for development cooperation is to be secured and adjusted to growing tasks.

The SPD wants to develop Bremen's sister-city partnerships further, make them better known and create more opportunities for young people. Together with Gdańsk, a solidarity partnership is to be offered to a Ukrainian municipality.

Bremen has partner cities in other countries. The SPD wants to strengthen these partnerships. Young people should be able to take part more. Bremen should also become the partner of a city in Ukraine.

The program names the partnerships with Gdańsk, Riga, Haifa, Izmir, Durban and Dalian and the city friendship with Windhoek as a mainstay of Bremen's international engagement. Windhoek is to be offered an upgrade from friendship to a full partnership. The offer to a Ukrainian municipality is to be developed jointly with Gdańsk. Funding for the partnerships is to be secured and adjusted to growing tasks.