What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on other topics?

The CDU wants to keep modernizing gambling law, with youth and player protection as a fixed benchmark. Only providers that follow the rules would get permanent licenses. The program regards an attractive legal market as the best protection against illegal gambling.

The CDU wants clear rules for gambling. Protecting young people and players comes first. Providers only get a license if they follow the rules. Legal offers should stay attractive. That way, fewer people should gamble illegally.

The CDU wants to speed up reconstruction after the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley through temporary exemptions in several areas of law. The reconstruction unit in the interior ministry is to become the central contact point with fixed contacts. In the platform's view, the state has not supported the region enough so far.

There was a severe flood in the Ahr Valley. The CDU says rebuilding is too slow. It wants to relax building rules for a limited time. One office in the interior ministry will answer all questions quickly.

The CDU wants to expand state funding for sports and provide more money than before. A sports pact with municipalities, federations and clubs is meant to clear the renovation backlog for gyms, fields and pools within five years.

The CDU wants to spend more money on sports. Many gyms and swimming pools are in bad shape. The CDU wants to fix them within five years. Towns, sports groups and clubs should work together on this.

The CDU wants to relieve volunteers of paperwork, give them better protection and recognize their work more visibly. Funding applications would be simplified, and every tax office would get a fixed contact person for clubs.

Many people help for free in clubs. The CDU wants to make this work easier. There should be fewer forms. Every tax office should have one person for clubs. Helpers should have better insurance.

The CDU wants to structurally strengthen the role of religious communities as providers of social services and keep religious education as a regular school subject. Christian holidays and traditions are to remain a fixed part of cultural life.

Churches and other religions run daycare centers, schools and care homes. The CDU wants to support them. Religion should stay a normal school subject. Christian holidays should stay. Jewish sites should get special protection.

The CDU wants to improve quality of life in rural areas with meeting places, local shops, small schools and daycare centers, and flexible public transport. Rural housing would become more attractive through renovating vacant buildings, targeted new construction and simpler building law. The goal is equal living conditions in town and country.

The CDU wants to make village life better. There should be village shops and meeting places. Small schools and daycare centers should stay. On-call buses and taxis should run. Fast internet should be available everywhere.

The Greens want daycare centers, schools, workplaces, hospitals and care homes to serve healthier, more regional and more organic food, including one vegan dish every day. According to the program, this benefits health, the climate and the environment and reduces the land needed for animal feed.

The Greens want better food in cafeterias. This applies to daycare centers, schools, hospitals and care homes. There should be more organic food and more food from the region. There should be a vegan dish every day. Children should learn about food at school.

The Greens want to expand the Verbraucherzentrale's (consumer advice center) counseling on energy and debt so that electricity and heating cutoffs do not happen in the first place. They also want protection against online fraud, a complaints office for artificial intelligence and consumer education in schools.

The Greens want to protect consumers better. The consumer advice center should offer more help, also in rural areas. There should be an office for complaints about artificial intelligence. Students should learn from grade 9 how to spot cost traps.

The Greens want equal treatment of religions and worldviews and more consideration for Islam in schools, cemeteries and holiday rules. They support building up Islamic religious education. Dancing bans on public holidays are to be lifted, and the party is open to a nationwide phase-out of state payments to the churches.

There are many religions in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Greens want to treat them all the same. Schools should also offer Islamic religion classes. Dancing should be allowed on quiet holidays. Jewish communities should keep getting support.

The Greens want to preserve and expand municipal and club-owned sports facilities and make them energy-efficient and accessible. A special funding program is to secure swimming pools so that all children can swim by the end of elementary school. Sports clubs, inclusion and fan projects are to get more support.

The Greens want to keep and renew sports fields and halls. Swimming pools should get money from a special program. All children should learn to swim in elementary school. Coaches in clubs should get higher allowances. Sports should be open to everyone.

The SPD wants to secure funding and staffing for the Verbraucherzentrale Rheinland-Pfalz (the state's consumer advice center) and expand advice offices, including in rural areas. Consumer protection is also meant to protect people in the digital world, and the platform treats it as a social issue.

The SPD wants to strengthen the consumer advice center. It should have enough money and staff. There should be advice offices in rural areas too. People should be better protected from fraud online.

The SPD wants to better protect consumers from online fraud, misleading advertising and opaque contracts. It plans a prevention program, stricter checks and simpler dispute resolution procedures.

The SPD wants to protect shoppers better. There should be more information about fraud on the internet. False advertising should be checked and punished more strictly. Complaining should become easier.

The SPD wants to push at the federal level for stricter checks and much higher penalties for food fraud. This is meant to protect consumers and ensure fair conditions for honest producers.

Some companies give false information about food. The SPD wants higher penalties for that. There should also be more checks. This should protect shoppers and honest producers.

The SPD wants to keep supporting the reconstruction of the Ahr valley after the 2021 flood as a high priority. In addition, it wants to invest in the future development of the entire region.

In 2021 there was a severe flood in the Ahr valley. The SPD wants to keep strongly supporting the rebuilding. It also wants to put money into the region's future.

The SPD wants to preserve meeting places and local supply in rural areas. It plans a new state investment program for pubs, cafés and village meeting places, the further development of hybrid village shops, and the Dorfbudget (village budget) for small projects.

The SPD wants to strengthen life in villages. There will be a new program with money for village pubs and cafés. Village shops will keep getting support. Villages get their own budget for small ideas.

The SPD wants to provide more money for building and renovating sports facilities, especially swimming pools. Funding procedures are to be simplified so that municipalities and amateur clubs can keep their facilities running.

The SPD wants to give more money for sports fields and swimming pools. Applying for the money should be easier. Children should be able to learn to swim. Clubs and coaches also get support.