What do the parties in North Rhine-Westphalia say on other topics?

The AfD wants to renovate and expand gyms, sports fields and swimming pools so that sports are accessible everywhere and to everyone. All elementary school students in North Rhine-Westphalia should learn to swim safely, and daycare centers and schools should offer more physical activity.

The AfD wants to repair gyms and swimming pools and build new ones. Everyone should be able to do sports. All elementary school children should learn to swim safely. Daycare centers and schools should offer more sports.

The AfD wants to improve the financial position of volunteers in sports clubs and expand competitive and elite sports. Talented children should be identified early and supported in elite sports schools.

The AfD wants more support for helpers in sports clubs. They should get more money for their expenses. Gifted children should get support in sports early on. There should be more special sports schools.

The CDU wants to continue the state's existing cooperation with churches, religious communities, and Jewish and Islamic congregations. It argues that society lives on values and that social cohesion cannot be imposed from above.

The state works together with churches and other religions. This includes Jewish and Islamic communities. The CDU wants to keep doing this. It says society needs values.

The CDU wants to keep supporting the consumer advice centers and fund an advice service in every county and independent city. Its guiding idea is informed consumers who can decide for themselves when they have transparency and information.

The CDU wants more advice for consumers. Consumers are people who buy things. Every county and every large city should have an advice service. Online advice should grow too. The CDU wants to warn people about fake online shops.

The CDU wants consumers to get information on every stage of production for processed foods, for example through a QR code. It also wants to educate people about best-before dates and organize food inspection more efficiently.

The CDU wants clear information about food. People should see how a product was made. This can work with a QR code. A QR code is an image you scan with your phone. The CDU also wants to explain: much food is still good after the best-before date.

The CDU wants to launch a new funding program to renovate sports facilities and make them more energy-efficient. It also wants to bring back a mandatory annual school sports day, expand sports schools and attract major sporting events, including the Olympic Games, to North Rhine-Westphalia.

The CDU wants to renew sports fields and gyms. There should be a new funding program for this. Every school should hold a sports day once a year. The CDU also hopes for Olympic Games in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The CDU wants to launch a state program for rural areas aimed mainly at municipalities with no more than 15,000 residents. The state's existing funding programs for rural areas are to be merged into it. In addition, pilot projects are planned for villages that supply themselves with renewable energy.

The CDU wants a program for areas outside the big cities. It should mainly help small towns. Older programs will be combined in it. Some villages should make their own power from sun or wind.

The FDP wants balanced funding for elite and grassroots sports and secure financing for the state sports federation. North Rhine-Westphalia should keep hosting major sporting events, and the party views a later Olympic bid favorably.

The FDP wants to support sports in NRW. Top-level sports and sports for everyone should both get money. NRW should host big sports events. The FDP also likes the idea of an Olympic bid.

The FDP wants to ensure protection from physical and psychological violence in sports. Measures against sexualized violence, bullying, discrimination and racism are to remain part of the state's sports plan.

There is sometimes violence and exclusion in sports. The FDP wants to protect children and young people from this. Clubs should treat people with care. The state should keep helping with that.

The FDP wants every child to be a safe swimmer by the end of elementary school and plans a "Year of Swimming." It also wants to roll out the "Sportplatz Kommune" program statewide to counter physical deficits in children.

Many children cannot swim well. The FDP wants to change that. Every child should swim safely after elementary school. Children should also move more in general.

The FDP wants to evaluate the state program "Moderne Sportstätte 2022" and keep renovating and expanding sports facilities. Swimming pools are a particular focus.

The FDP wants to keep renewing sports facilities. The state should check what the current program has achieved. Swimming pools above all should get better.

The FDP wants to cut food waste by informing consumers and creating incentives for supermarkets and restaurants. Nutrition education is to begin in early childhood education and increase appreciation for food.

A lot of food ends up in the trash in Germany. The FDP wants to inform people better. One example is what the best-before date means. Supermarkets and restaurants should get incentives. Children should learn early about healthy food.

The FDP wants to relax burial law. It wants to examine whether urns may in future be buried on private property, and private operators should be allowed to run cemeteries.

The FDP wants to relax the rules for burials. It wants to check whether urns may be buried on private land. Private companies should also be allowed to run cemeteries.

The FDP wants to expand digital counseling by consumer advice centers and strengthen debt counseling in municipalities. It relies on information and advice rather than paternalism.

The FDP wants more online advice for consumers. People should get an appointment faster. People with debts should also get better help. The FDP wants to inform people, not tell them what to do.

The Greens want to support the consumer advice centers in building digital services and to substantially expand advice on energy and climate. The party regards independent consumer advice as an essential public service. The network of advice offices is to be funded for the long term.

Consumer advice centers help people, for example before buying solar panels. The Greens want more of this advice. Many services should be free. There should also be more advice online.

The Greens want to maintain sports facilities and convert them in a climate-friendly way, with financial support for municipalities. They put special emphasis on swimming pools and swimming lessons: every child should be able to learn to swim by the end of elementary school. The platform bases this on the role of sports in social cohesion and health.

The Greens want to fix sports fields, gyms and swimming pools. The buildings should become better for the climate. Cities and towns should get money for this. Every child should be able to learn to swim in elementary school. More people should volunteer in sports.

The Greens want to regulate sports funding in North Rhine-Westphalia through a dedicated law and set up a state sports conference with all key players. Funding for the state sports federation is to become transparent and legally sound. Protection against violence in sports is also to be expanded.

The Greens want a law for funding sports. Everyone in NRW should be able to do sports. There should be a sports conference for the whole state. All the important people in sports talk to each other there. There should also be more protection against violence in sports.

The Greens want to introduce regular dialogue formats and fan hearings around sporting events to improve cooperation among everyone involved and strengthen efforts against violence and discrimination. They also want to support gaming culture and e-sports and have e-sports clubs recognized as nonprofit organizations.

The Greens want fans, clubs and police to talk to each other regularly. This should mean less violence and hate in sports. The Greens also want to support e-sports. E-sports means people play computer games as a competition. E-sports clubs should count as nonprofit.

The SPD wants to move faster on rebuilding the areas hit by the July 2021 flood. Aid money is to be paid out more quickly, municipalities are to be supported in restoring infrastructure, and a special program is to be launched. The stated goal is that people there have the same opportunities as elsewhere in the state.

In July 2021 there was a severe flood. The SPD wants to help people there faster. The money for rebuilding should arrive sooner. Towns should get help for roads and buildings. There should also be help for mental health.

The SPD wants to invest in gyms, swimming pools and sports fields and continue the state program "Moderne Sportstätten" (modern sports facilities). It puts particular emphasis on accessibility so that people with and without disabilities can do sports together.

The SPD wants to renovate gyms, pools and sports fields. The state should keep paying for this. The facilities should be open to everyone. People with disabilities should be able to do sports there too.

The SPD wants the state to pay the annual membership fee once when children and young people join a sports club. The aim is to bring at least 500,000 young people into organized sports.

The SPD wants more children to join sports clubs. The state should pay the fee for one year, one time. The goal is 500,000 new young club members.

The SPD wants every child to learn to swim. Pools are to be renovated, lessons offered both in and outside school, and municipalities supported in providing school swimming.

The SPD wants every child to learn to swim. Pools should be repaired for this. Every child should be able to get lessons. Towns will get help to offer swimming at school.

The SPD wants to support young talent in elite sports and para sports and bring major sporting events to the state. It backs bids by the Rhine-Ruhr region for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, provided they have broad public support and respect human rights and sustainability.

The SPD wants to support young sports talent. Big sports events should take place in the state. The Rhine-Ruhr region should be able to bid for the Olympic Games. Human rights and the environment must be respected.