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Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The CDU demands that no additional burdens on businesses come from Brussels. EU rules should be transposed in Germany one-to-one, without going further. The party invokes the principle of subsidiarity.
The CDU says the EU creates too much red tape. It wants no new burdens for businesses from Brussels. Germany should not make EU rules stricter than needed. The EU should not solve every problem itself.
The CDU supports EU enlargement to Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans but demands that new members meet every criterion at accession. Ukraine may join after the war ends, while the CDU rules out Turkish membership.
The CDU wants new countries to be able to join the EU. But these countries must meet all EU rules. Ukraine can join after the war. Turkey should not join the EU.
The CDU rejects EU-level taxes and EU borrowing and wants to preserve the stability criteria and the narrow mandate of the European Central Bank. At the same time the EU should tackle major tasks such as defense, the single market, migration and climate protection jointly, while respecting subsidiarity.
The CDU does not want the EU to raise its own taxes. The EU should not take on its own debt either. On big issues the EU countries should work together. For example on defense and climate protection. But each country should be able to decide a lot on its own.
The CDU wants to actively represent Hesse's interests toward the EU institutions. This includes EU funding for strong regions too, expanding Darmstadt as a space hub and bringing the EU anti-money-laundering authority to Frankfurt.
The CDU wants to speak up for Hesse in the EU. Hesse should keep getting EU funding. The space sector in Darmstadt should grow. A new EU agency against money laundering should come to Frankfurt.
The CDU wants to expand participation and exchange programs to interest young people in Hesse in Europe. Plans include a Europe scholarship and a parliamentary youth exchange.
The CDU wants to get young people excited about Europe. There should be more exchanges with other countries. Students should be able to get a Europe scholarship. A scholarship is money for studying. Young people can keep winning train tickets for Europe.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
Hesse should press at the federal level for EU financial rules to be implemented without extra national requirements, known as gold plating. The FDP supports a deeper capital markets union with uniform rules across Europe.
The EU makes rules for banks and financial firms. Germany should not add extra rules of its own. The rules should be the same all over Europe. The FDP wants one shared European capital market.
The FDP wants to advance European integration in selected core areas and backs a European constitutional convention. The EU should also be open to further European states. The platform justifies this with the EU's growing importance for peace, freedom and prosperity.
The FDP wants to make the EU stronger. The EU should handle crises better. For this, there should be a big meeting called a constitutional convention. It should work out new rules for the EU. More countries should also be able to join the EU.
The FDP wants regions to take a greater part in European lawmaking and wants subsidiarity respected. The subsidiarity complaint is to be used more effectively and developed further, and Hesse's state representation in Brussels strengthened. EU funding should continue to benefit Hesse.
The FDP wants regions like Hesse to have more say in the EU. The EU should only regulate what it can regulate better. This is called subsidiarity. Regions should get more time to object. Hesse's office in Brussels should become stronger.
The FDP wants to continue, and where possible deepen, Hesse's partnerships with regions in Italy, France and Poland. The partnership with the Turkish region of Bursa is to be kept but focused on civil society. Hesse should also cooperate more with regions in Africa.
Hesse has partner regions in other countries. The FDP wants to keep these partnerships and build on them. Contact with the Bursa region in Turkey should go on. The focus there should be on citizens and local groups. Hesse should also work more with regions in Africa.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The Greens want to reform the European Union toward a Federal European Republic. National vetoes are to be abolished, and the European Parliament is to gain the right to propose laws itself.
The Greens want to make the EU stronger. Single countries should no longer be able to block decisions alone. The European Parliament should be allowed to propose laws itself. The EU should spend more money on climate protection and social issues.
The Greens want citizens of other EU countries to be able to vote in Hesse's state elections. They see this as a step toward a European citizenship.
People from other EU countries should be allowed to vote for the state parliament in Hesse. That is what the Greens want. They want a European citizenship one day. Information centers about Europe should also get support.
The Greens want to enable more European exchange, especially for young people. Every student and apprentice should be able to take part in a project elsewhere in Europe regardless of their parents' income; public administration staff should also be able to go on exchanges.
Young people should experience Europe themselves. Every student and every apprentice should be able to do a project abroad. Their parents' money should not matter. Staff of public offices should also be able to go abroad. Hesse should work more closely with partner regions.
Program for the 2023 Hesse state election
The SPD wants to give European policy more weight in the state and push harder for European concerns in the Bundesrat. Municipalities are to draw down more EU funding with the help of local Europe officers. The state is to approve and co-finance EU-selected projects promptly.
Europe should matter more in Hessian politics. Towns and cities should get more money from the EU. The SPD wants to support Europe officers in the municipalities for this. The state should pay its share of EU projects quickly. The SPD stands up for social rights in the EU.
The SPD wants Hessian universities to receive more European funding and to join European university alliances. Stays abroad during vocational training are to become easier and a core part of training. Mid-sized companies are to get help adapting to the EU's Green Deal.
Hesse's universities should work more with Europe. Trainees should find it easier to spend time abroad. Schools should have more exchanges and partnerships. Small and mid-sized companies should get help to do business more sustainably. The state should measure how well people are doing.