SPD on other topics

The SPD wants to strengthen consumer protection and expand the advice offered by consumer centers. It also plans a strategy against food waste and wants to push for fair competition rules, especially in digital markets.

The SPD wants to protect consumers better. Consumers are people who buy things. There should be more advice, also right in the neighborhoods. Less food should end up in the trash. Small companies should have a fair chance against big online platforms.

The project "Verbraucher*innen stärken im Quartier" (strengthening consumers in the neighborhood) is to be expanded to offer easy-to-reach advice in disadvantaged areas. Solutions against food waste are to be worked out with producers and retailers, along with a fund that companies can co-finance. On competition law, the SPD wants to protect fair markets for Schleswig-Holstein companies within the state's powers. It sees their opportunities weakened by the growing role of platforms in selling.

The SPD wants to create a funding program in which counties and independent cities team up to launch joint projects for the future. It is to be financed with help from the EU and the federal government and is meant to strengthen rural areas.

The SPD wants to start a new program for regions. Counties and cities work together in it. They plan projects for the future together. Money should also come from the EU and the federal government.

Projects are to come from the fields of innovation and start-ups, climate protection and the circular economy, health and care, equal opportunity and education, and biodiversity and tourism. The SPD wants to keep supporting the existing Aktivregionen (local rural development groups) so that health care, shopping and culture stay within reach everywhere. To help rural families combine work and family, daycare, childminding, all-day schools and adult day care are to be sufficiently available. Digital public services are to be tailored to local needs. Nonprofit welfare associations are to receive additional funding.

The SPD wants to support sports clubs and volunteers in sports after the pandemic with a special initiative program and make state funding permanent. Federal training centers, inclusive sports offerings and e-sports are also to be supported.

The SPD wants to help sports clubs. Many clubs had a hard time because of Covid. So there should be a new program. Top-level sports should also get money. People with and without disabilities should be able to do sports together.

The initiative program is meant to enable the state sports federation and the county sports federations to help local clubs. The federal training centers for sailing, beach volleyball and rowing, and the municipalities providing their infrastructure, are to receive money. The sports development plan "Sportland Schleswig-Holstein" is to be developed further together with those involved. Elite athletes are to get career prospects, with Paralympic athletes also offered options in the state administration. The SPD wants to promote e-sports, with criteria modeled on the Danish e-sports code.

The SPD wants to keep funding municipal sports facilities, especially swimming pools, so that every child in the state learns to swim. Funding is to be geared more closely to municipalities' actual needs.

The SPD wants to give money for gyms and sports fields. Swimming pools matter most to it. Every child should learn to swim. Outdoor sports should also be open to everyone.

Building and renovating municipal sports facilities, indoor pools and public baths remains a priority because they are the basis for school sports. Funding options are to match municipalities' needs more closely than before. Recreational sports are to be freely accessible on public land. To that end, the party wants to increase funding for sports and exercise offerings in public open spaces, which it also sees as an asset that makes regions more attractive.