What do the parties in Bremen say on other topics?

The CDU wants to turn Bremen's city center between Am Wall and Martinistraße into a "Flanierstadt" (strolling city), with parking at its edges. The city center project office would be placed directly under the mayor in city hall. In the party's view, the problem is not a lack of ideas but a lack of implementation.

The CDU wants to make Bremen's city center nicer for strolling. Parking should be at the edge of the center. An office in city hall should lead the projects. The office should report directly to the mayor. The party says there are enough plans, but too little happens.

The CDU wants to enliven Bremen's neighborhoods with markets, culture, and festivals and to open public buildings to residents outside their regular hours. It argues that meeting places and services have disappeared from the neighborhoods.

The CDU wants to strengthen Bremen's neighborhoods. There should be more markets, culture, and festivals there. Schools and offices should open their rooms to clubs in the afternoon. School cafeterias should also offer meals to everyone nearby.

The CDU supports building the planned youth training center of the soccer club Werder Bremen in the Pauliner Marsch. Because the party says the project cuts deeply into this recreation area, a round table is to balance the interests involved.

Werder Bremen wants to build a center for young soccer players. It would stand in the Pauliner Marsch. That is a green area by the Weser river. The CDU is in favor of building it. But it wants to talk with everyone involved.

The CDU wants to preserve and support the work of churches and religious communities and expand cooperation with them. Believers of all faiths are to be protected from hatred and attacks, and the party wants to fight antisemitism firmly.

The CDU thinks churches and other faith communities are important. It wants to work with them more. No one should be threatened because of their faith. The CDU wants to fight hatred of Jews. Schools should play a special part in this.

The CDU wants to give the Verbraucherzentrale Bremen (consumer advice center) funding secured for five years. Easy-to-reach advice services in neighborhoods are to be expanded. The program cites sharply higher demand for advice during the coronavirus and energy crises.

The consumer advice center helps people with many questions. The CDU wants to promise it steady money for five years. That makes planning easier. There is to be more advice right in the neighborhoods.

The CDU wants to better equip food inspection authorities and make inspection results visible, for example in restaurants. Meals in daycare centers, schools and senior homes are to be healthy and ecologically responsible. The party also aims to reduce food poverty this way.

The CDU wants better checks on food. Guests are to see the inspection result in restaurants. Meals in daycare, schools and care homes are to be healthy. Food labels are to say clearly where products come from.

The CDU wants to promote and honor volunteer work more strongly. The state's engagement strategy is to be completed and put into practice, the Ehrenamtskarte (volunteer card) upgraded, and associations such as food banks given more money. The goal is to win more people for volunteer work.

Many people help for free in clubs and groups. The CDU wants to support that more. The volunteer card is to bring more benefits. Important groups like food banks are to get more money. There is to be a Volunteer Day.

The CDU wants every child to be able to swim by the end of elementary school and to hold at least the basic swimming badge. School swimming lessons are to receive more money for this. The Unibad (university pool) is to be renovated instead of torn down.

Every child should be able to swim after elementary school. The CDU wants to spend more on swimming lessons. The university pool is not to be torn down. It is to be repaired.

The CDU wants to launch funding programs for renovating sports facilities and draw up a priority list to be worked through step by step. Energy cost subsidies for sports clubs are to be adjusted continually to rising prices.

Many gyms and pools need repairs. The CDU wants to provide money for this. A list is to show which facility comes first. Sports clubs are also to get help with energy costs.

The CDU wants to support athletic talent on the path to top-level sports. To that end, the Eliteschule des Sports (Elite School of Sport) at the secondary school on Ronzelenstraße is to be completed by 2027, along with modern training facilities.

The CDU wants to support young sports talent. Bremen should get an Elite School of Sport. This is a school for very good athletes. It should be ready by 2027. Training sites should also become more modern.

The CDU regards esports as part of recreational sports and wants to support it like traditional sports. At the federal level, it wants esports to be put on equal footing with sports in the Abgabenordnung (Fiscal Code).

The CDU sees esports as a real sport. Esports means people play video games in competitions. The CDU wants to support esports like other sports. Tax law should also treat esports the same way.

The CDU wants to expand easily accessible sports options for all age groups. According to the platform, sports benefit health and bring people together.

The CDU wants more easy sports options. Everyone should be able to join in. Sports are good for health. And people meet each other there.

The FDP wants downtown Bremen to serve more purposes: housing, education, culture, sports and dining are to matter more alongside shopping. To that end, the Domshof square, the Wallanlagen park, the Weser riverfront and open squares are to be redesigned, with residents involved through citizen workshops.

Downtown Bremen should offer more than shopping. There should be concerts on the Domshof square in the evening. New playgrounds should be built in the Wallanlagen park. There should be places for young people. Residents should be able to bring their own ideas.

The FDP wants to redesign the surroundings of Bremen's main train station to make them more pleasant and safer. Squares are to host events, walkways are to be improved and the Gustav-Deetjen tunnel is to be laid out differently.

The FDP wants to make the area around Bremen's main station nicer. There should be sports and festivals on the squares. Paths should be brighter and better. Bikes should get their own lane in the tunnel. This should make the area safer.

The FDP wants to use the redevelopment after Karstadt's departure to reposition Bremerhaven's downtown and open it toward the Havenwelten waterfront. It supports private investors but demands transparency about building plans and enough open space.

The Karstadt department store in Bremerhaven is gone. The FDP wants to redesign downtown there. People should get easily from downtown to the Havenwelten at the harbor. So buildings should not stand too close together. The plans should be shown openly before building starts.

The FDP rejects a ban on private fireworks on New Year's Eve. The party wants families to be able to keep up this tradition responsibly.

The FDP wants to keep fireworks on New Year's Eve legal. Families should be allowed to set off rockets privately. The FDP says most harm comes from banned firecrackers. A ban could lead more people to use those firecrackers.

The FDP wants to set up a memorial forest in Bremerhaven where burials beneath trees are possible. So far the city has no such option.

In Bremerhaven, people cannot be buried in a forest. But many people wish for that. The FDP wants a memorial forest there. That is a forest with graves next to trees.

The FDP wants to clear the repair backlog in sports halls, expand fields and halls as needed, and provide the budget funds for this. Schools and daycare centers are to work more closely with sports clubs, and the University of Bremen is to offer sports science again.

The FDP wants to repair run-down sports halls. There should be more fields and halls. Schools and daycare centers should work with sports clubs. The University of Bremen should train sports teachers again.

The FDP wants to support elite sports in Bremen and Bremerhaven with funding and public backing. Esports are to count as a sport regardless of game content, and esports clubs are to be recognized as nonprofit.

The FDP wants to support top-level sports with money. Esports should also count as a sport. Esports means competitions in video games. Esports clubs should get the same benefits as other sports clubs.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim and plan to expand courses together with clubs, the DLRG lifesaving association and the city's pool operator. The platform argues that learning to swim early can save lives. Pools are to be renovated on an ongoing basis and get more customer-friendly opening hours.

Every child should learn to swim. This can save lives. The Greens want to offer more swimming courses. They will work with clubs and pools to do this. The pools should be renovated and have better opening hours.

The Greens want to keep raising financial support for trained sports instructors. The city of Bremen is to continue covering the cost of their license training. At the federal level, the party wants to push for a higher tax-free allowance.

Instructors train people in sports clubs. The Greens want to give them more money. The city of Bremen should keep paying for their training. They should also pay less tax. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level.

The Greens want to help sports clubs facing higher energy costs with a funding program for investment and energy savings. Sports facilities are to be renovated and developed based on the sports development plan. City-owned sports facilities are to get solar panels and charging points for electric vehicles wherever possible.

Energy has become expensive for sports clubs. The Greens want to help the clubs with money. This should help clubs save energy. Sports halls and fields should be renovated. City sports facilities should get solar panels.

The Greens want to maintain and expand freely accessible places for sports and play in parks and public areas. The platform sees them as an easy-access option, especially for children and teenagers. Schools and clubs are also to cooperate more closely so that all-day students can take part in club sports.

Bremen has many public places for sports. The Greens want to look after them and build new ones. Everyone can use them for free. Schools and sports clubs should work together more. Then more children can do sports in a club.

The Greens want more freely accessible areas for play, sports and meeting in the neighborhoods and would provide more money for this. Allotment garden areas would stay protected from conversion, and public space would be better equipped.

The Greens want more places where people can meet. These include playgrounds, green areas and sports areas. These places should be free for everyone. There should be more benches, toilets and drinking fountains. Allotment gardens should stay.

The Greens want to restrict advertising in public space in Bremen by law. This is meant to make local retailers and local event organizers more visible and to reduce sensory overload and light pollution.

There is a lot of advertising in the city. The Greens want a law that limits it. Shops and event organizers from Bremen should become easier to see. There should also be less bright light from ads.

The Greens want to create a funding program called “Stadtlabore” (city labs) to try out new uses in the city center and make them permanent if they work. It is meant to complement the existing concept and pop-up stores, which are mostly geared toward shopping.

The Greens want a new funding program for downtown. It is called “Stadtlabore,” or city labs. People can use it to try new ideas in empty spaces. Good ideas should stay for good.

The Greens want to make more use of the city center as a place to spend time and expand offerings for groups that have received little attention so far. These include children, young and older people, newcomers to Bremen, and people who cannot afford to spend money. A range of places with different profiles is to be developed.

The Greens want a downtown for everyone. Children should be able to play there safely. Young people should have places to meet. People with little money should feel welcome too.

The Greens want to upgrade the Bahnhofsvorstadt (the district around the main station) as a neighborhood in its own right, whose residents need more than cleanliness and safety. By the end of 2023, an assessment of their needs is to be completed and turned into recommendations for long-term development.

The Greens want to improve the neighborhood by the station. Many people live and work there. By the end of 2023, it should be clear what residents need. A plan for the neighborhood should come from that.

The Left wants to repair gyms and district sports grounds through a renovation program. At the same time, more freely accessible sports equipment and exercise areas are to be created in public spaces.

Many gyms and sports fields are in poor shape. The Left wants to repair them. There should also be more outdoor sports equipment. Anyone can use it for free.

The Left wants to cover club fees for people with low incomes and create a sports funding program for recipients of welfare benefits. Clubs are also to get more support for integration, inclusion, and diversity.

Sports clubs cost money. Some people cannot afford that. The Left wants to pay their fees. Children should be able to go swimming for 1 euro.

The Left wants more sports and activity areas for young people and better conditions at places where people party. Young people should also find affordable housing more easily.

The Left wants more places for ball sports, skating and BMX. Where young people party, there should be toilets and support teams. Young people should find a cheap apartment more easily.

The Left wants to secure older people's participation through short, barrier-free routes, digital training alongside continued non-digital access to authorities, and a law on seniors' participation. Local services and multigenerational housing are to counter loneliness in old age.

The Left wants to make life easier for older people. They should be able to learn how to use the internet. Public offices should stay reachable by phone or in person. Meeting places in the neighborhood should help against loneliness.

The Left wants Bremen to develop its own sustainability strategy and update it regularly. It should cover how the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals are implemented in the state and Bremen's contribution to global development.

The United Nations has 17 goals for a better world. The Left wants a plan for how Bremen reaches these goals. Bremen should renew the plan again and again. A report with numbers alone is not enough for the party.

The Left wants to strengthen consumer protection with more public money. Plans include more neighborhood contact points and advice, a better-funded consumer advice center, and ad-free daycare centers and schools.

The Left wants to protect consumers better. Consumers are people who buy or use things. There should be more advice in the neighborhoods. The consumer advice center should get more money and staff. Daycare centers and schools should have no ads.

The SPD no longer wants to treat the city centers of Bremen and Bremerhaven mainly as shopping zones. They are to remain business locations but offer more room for housing, culture, leisure, education and meeting people. The platform points to online retail, arguing that downtowns can only compete through the quality of the experience they offer.

The SPD wants to change the city centers. They should not only have shops. People should also live, learn and enjoy culture there. The walking zones should be large. The SPD says: Many people now shop online, so the city needs new things to offer.

The SPD wants to redesign Domshof square so that it draws people all day and into the evening. In addition, the Wall ring road is to become a boulevard, and the Wallanlagen park is to be used more.

Domshof is the largest square in downtown Bremen. The SPD wants more life there, also in the evening. The weekly market should look nicer. There should be more restaurants and cafés. The street along the Wall park should also become nicer.

The SPD wants to develop a "new center" around the current Parkhaus Mitte parking garage. The city is to acquire the necessary property rights and create planning permission so that the garage can be torn down quickly and replaced by a new building complex.

There is a parking garage called Parkhaus Mitte in downtown Bremen. The SPD wants to tear it down quickly. The city should buy the land it needs for that. A new building should go up there. People should be able to walk through the area easily.

The SPD wants to create public places in downtown Bremen where nobody has to buy or consume anything. It also plans a central "Spielort 4.0" play space for children and teenagers and wants to keep the club scene near the main station.

The SPD wants new meeting places downtown. Nobody has to buy anything there. There should be a big play space for children and teenagers. The clubs near the train station should also stay.

The SPD wants to make downtown Bremerhaven more attractive by linking housing, work, culture, education and tourism more closely. It relies on more green space and unsealed ground and on a better connection to the Havenwelten waterfront. The former Karstadt site and the area around the pedestrian zone are to be redesigned.

The SPD wants to make downtown Bremerhaven nicer. There should be more green and less concrete. Columbusstraße cuts the center off from the Havenwelten waterfront. The SPD wants to change that. Residents should have a say.

The SPD wants to give the Verbraucherzentrale Bremen (consumer advice center) more funding so it can offer budget counseling at no charge and advice on energy law. The platform justifies this with sharply higher prices for heating, food and fuel.

Heating, food and fuel have become much more expensive. Many people worry about money because of this. The consumer advice center helps people with that. The SPD wants to give it more money. Then it can give free advice on spending and energy bills.

The SPD wants to renovate gyms quickly, build new halls and artificial turf fields, and upgrade club-owned facilities for energy efficiency. New and renovated facilities are to be suitable for inclusive sports.

The SPD wants to repair gyms. There should be new halls and new sports fields. Sports buildings should use less energy. People with disabilities should also be able to do sports there.

The SPD wants to significantly raise subsidies for instructors in sports clubs and change the cap on subsidized hours. Training is to become free for participants. The platform cites growing responsibilities and a shortage of qualified instructors.

Instructors run the training in sports clubs. The SPD wants to give them more money. Their training should be free. People should be able to study sports at the University of Bremen again.

The SPD wants to expand cooperation between daycare centers, schools and sports clubs, including for children under three in daycare. Children and teens should take up sports early, which the platform says promotes health and later involvement in clubs.

Children should start sports early. Daycare centers and schools should work more with sports clubs. This should also include very young children. Children from poor families should keep getting money for club fees.

The SPD wants every child in Bremen to learn to swim and wants to keep the existing public pools. Funding and staff are to be secured for this. The discounted one-euro admission is to stay in the long term.

Every child in Bremen should learn to swim. The swimming pools should stay open. The one-euro ticket should stay. The SPD will check if all pools can offer it.

The SPD wants to promote competitive sports, including through a sports boarding school and targeted programs in schools. It sees elite sports as an economic asset and good publicity for the state of Bremen. Competitive sports for people with disabilities are also to get more money.

The SPD wants to give more support to top-level sports. There should be help for a sports boarding school. Athletes with disabilities should also get more money. The SPD says this is good for Bremen's image.

The SPD wants to maintain low-cost and free leisure activities and make them better known, especially among low-income households. An advertising campaign starting in 2023 and an app are planned. The Freikarte (free pass) for children and teens is to be kept in its core form if its evaluation is positive.

Free time often costs money. The SPD wants to make free activities better known. It plans advertising and an app for this. The free pass for children should stay if it works well.

The SPD wants to continue the music, dance, and sports offerings in parks that emerged during the COVID period. A pilot project is to test whether the rules for using green spaces can be relaxed. Restrooms are to be provided at central green spaces.

During COVID, many activities took place in parks. The SPD wants to keep these activities. A test will show if simpler rules for parks are possible. Important parks should have restrooms.