SPD on the economy

The SPD wants to relieve skilled trades, small businesses and mid-sized companies of bureaucracy. New laws would be checked for added reporting duties, and documentation requirements would be simplified or dropped.

The SPD wants less paperwork for businesses. New laws should be checked first. They should not make businesses write extra reports. Applying for state funding should also get easier.

The program calls for reviewing laws to see whether they create new reporting duties for businesses. Overlapping rules from the EU, the federal government and the state are to be reduced. Documentation requirements would be simplified or removed entirely. Funding programs are to become easier to access through lighter application requirements and digital proof procedures. For very small firms and solo self-employed people, the program also mentions better social protection and fair procurement and payment terms.

The SPD wants an active industrial policy that backs renewable energy, climate-friendly production, the circular economy and new technologies. Existing industries would get help modernizing, and a climate start-up grant (Klimagründungsgeld) is meant to attract new ones.

The SPD wants to keep industry strong in the state. Factories should work in a more climate-friendly way. The state should help them do that. A new grant should bring new companies to the state.

Support would go to renewable energy, low-emission production methods, the circular economy, cutting-edge technology and the IT sector. Industries such as chemicals, food processing, semiconductors and auto suppliers would get help modernizing. The SPD wants to launch a carbon management strategy with industry dialogues and help companies add circular business models. Repair cafés would keep receiving funding. The Umwelt-Allianz (environmental alliance) is to become an environmental academy for business owners. Municipalities and private households are also meant to save more energy.

The SPD wants to give top priority to supporting the chemical industry in the central German chemical triangle as it moves to climate-neutral production. A task force would review and adjust the state's policy framework every six months.

The chemical industry is very important for Saxony-Anhalt. In the future it should produce without harming the climate. The SPD wants to help it do that. A working group from politics, government offices and industry should meet twice a year.

The program describes the chemical parks as an industrial core that secures thousands of jobs and supplies basic materials to the European economy. It calls the switch to climate neutrality the biggest transformation in the industry's history, one that needs state help on energy, infrastructure and transformation processes. The task force would bring together decision-makers from politics, administration and companies. The state energy agency LENA is to grow into a competence hub for businesses and consumers. It would also coordinate future hydrogen and carbon dioxide infrastructure statewide.

The SPD wants to make founding a company easier through simpler funding, including a start-up bonus. Research and business are to work together more closely so innovations reach practice faster.

The SPD wants to make it easier to start a company. Funding should be simpler to get. Young companies should get a bonus. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The SPD says start-ups should not fail because of forms. Alongside the bonus for start-ups, a low-bureaucracy program for founders with work experience is planned. Existing regional contact points would be strengthened. In science, the focus would be on research aimed at application and transfer to companies.

The SPD wants to gear the state's tourism strategy toward sustainable, low-impact tourism. Infrastructure, bike paths and rail connections are to be secured and expanded.

The SPD wants more visitors to come to the state. Tourism should be gentle on nature. Bike paths and train connections should get better. Offers should also work well for people with disabilities.

The program sees tourism as an economic factor that creates jobs and quality of life, from the Altmark and the Harz to Wittenberg and the Saale-Unstrut region. Accessibility and tourism infrastructure would be maintained and developed further. The state is to be marketed more strongly nationwide and abroad. Multilingual and barrier-free offers are meant to make it more attractive.