What do the parties in Thuringia say on Europe?

The AfD rejects a European health union and wants health policy to remain a national responsibility. It points to EU mistakes during the COVID period, such as vaccine procurement.

The EU plans a health union. The AfD is against it. Germany should decide on health itself. The AfD says the EU made mistakes during COVID.

The AfD wants Thuringia to keep receiving money from EU funding programs but calls for a fundamental reform. EU programs should serve only the single market and economic structures; projects such as the Green Deal and Fit for 55 should be ended.

The AfD wants to change EU funding a lot. Thuringia should still get EU money. But the money should only help the economy. The AfD wants to end EU climate programs like the Green Deal. Applying for money should be less work.

The AfD wants to reform EU procurement law so that public contracts can more often go preferentially to regional and national firms. This is meant to strengthen the local economy.

The AfD wants to change the rules for public contracts. Local firms should get preference more often. Today the cheapest offer from the whole EU often has to win. That should change.

The AfD considers the EU a failure and wants to found a new European economic and interest community of sovereign nation-states. It rejects an EU superstate and says a referendum should decide on Europe's future.

The AfD says the EU has failed. It wants a new union of states in Europe. Each state should decide for itself. The states should work together mainly on trade. In the end, the people should vote on this.

The CDU wants to attract well-trained EU citizens to Thuringia's labor market and reduce barriers to worker mobility. Exchange programs for apprentices, university students and school students are to grow.

The CDU wants skilled workers from other EU countries to come to Thuringia. Working in another EU country should become easier. More young people should do part of their training abroad. There should be more money for this.

The CDU rejects any German liability for the debts of other EU states. Each member state is to be responsible for its own debt, and EU money is not to flow into national social programs.

The CDU wants no shared debt in the EU. Each country should pay its own debts. Germany should not be liable for other countries. EU money should not go into the social programs of single countries.

The Left wants to develop the EU into a social union with equal social rights and comparable living conditions. A European financial transaction tax would give the EU more revenue of its own so that climate policy does not overburden people on low and middle incomes. The party also calls for a humanitarian refugee policy.

The Left wants a social EU. The same social rights should apply all over Europe. The EU should tax financial trades. It should use the money to ease the cost of climate action for people. The EU should treat refugees humanely.

The SPD wants to work for an EU that creates common rules for work, taxes and basic social security. Minimum social standards are to be secured and wage and social dumping stopped. The EU is also to protect democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

The SPD wants a social Europe. There should be shared rules for work and taxes. Nobody should have to work for dumping wages. Europe should protect democracy and human rights. This also applies at the EU's outer borders.

The SPD wants to deepen European cooperation in education, research, the labor market and culture. Barriers to working across borders are to come down, and vocational qualifications are to be recognized faster. Apprentices should also be able to take part in Erasmus+ more often.

The SPD wants more exchange in Europe. People should find it easier to work in other countries. Job qualifications should be recognized faster. Apprentices should also be able to go abroad. The state should support partnerships between towns more.