SPD on other topics

The SPD wants to expand consumer protection in Germany and Europe. Market and competition regulators should be able to act and put consumer interests first. Online, there should be special protection against rip-offs and manipulation.

The SPD wants to protect buyers better. Agencies should watch markets closely. Online, people should be protected from scams. This matters most for children and teenagers.

The SPD wants to defend the existing level of protection for products and services. In the digital sphere, children and young people are the focus of protection. Net neutrality, meaning equal treatment of all data on the internet, is to be preserved.

The SPD wants to write sport into the Basic Law as a state objective. The aim is to promote health, social participation, inclusion and integration. It also wants to help renovate sports facilities and back a German Olympic bid.

The SPD wants to put sport into the Basic Law. The Basic Law is Germany's constitution. Sport should keep people healthy and bring them together. The federal government should help repair sports fields and gyms. The SPD also wants Olympic Games in Germany.

The platform provides for helping states, municipalities and clubs renovate sports facilities. Volunteering in grassroots sport is to become more attractive and easier to access. The SPD wants to keep supporting the Zentrum für Safe Sport, which works against physical, psychological and sexualized violence in sport. It favors major sporting events in Germany and wants to help the German Olympic Sports Confederation bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The SPD wants to achieve equivalent living conditions across Germany and give targeted support to regions with particular problems. To that end, internet, transportation, health care and education in rural areas are to be expanded. People should be free to decide whether to live in a city or in the countryside.

The SPD wants to improve life in the countryside. There should be fast internet there. Buses and trains should run more often. Doctors and schools should be easy to reach. Empty buildings should be used again.

Small towns are to become anchor points for business, culture and social life. Health care is to be strengthened through telemedicine and medical care centers, urban development funding is to grow and local retail is to be supported. For mobility, the platform relies on buses, on-demand buses and trains, while acknowledging that many rural residents need a car. A vacancy strategy with funding programs is meant to get municipalities and owners to convert unused buildings into housing or commercial space. Citizen forums, digital platforms and municipal development councils are to promote local participation, and allotment gardens are to keep receiving support.