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What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on other topics?

5 current election programs in Schleswig-Holstein have points on this topic.

Their points are shown side by side, summarized and placed. The quote and page number for each point are on the party's topic page.

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Each axis measures one topic. There is no single "left" or "right" for everything here: economy, society, migration and security are kept apart. Only what the program says is placed. How to read the placement

The small columns under the bars show how many points sit on each of the five steps.

CDU

Program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

  • Economyleaning more state (-0.8), from 6 points

    Points per step: 0 clearly more state, 5 leaning more state, 1 balanced, 0 leaning more market, 0 clearly more market

  • Societyleaning conservative (+1), from 2 points

    Points per step: 0 clearly progressive, 0 leaning progressive, 0 balanced, 2 leaning conservative, 0 clearly conservative

Strengthen the consumer advice center and set up a portal

The CDU wants to expand funding for the Verbraucherzentrale (consumer advice center) and create a central online portal that pools consumer information from all levels of government. At the federal level, it advocates stronger consumer rights in several sectors.

The CDU wants to protect consumers better. The consumer advice center should get more money. There should be one website with all important information. Consumers should get more rights, for example with phone contracts.

Expand food inspection and pool responsibilities

The CDU wants to make food safety a priority over the next five years. The structures of food inspection are to be reviewed and expanded together with the municipalities. All consumer protection responsibilities are to be brought together.

The CDU wants food to be safe. So food should be inspected better. The state wants to talk with cities and towns about this. One office should be in charge of consumer protection.

Make volunteering more flexible and family-friendly

The CDU wants volunteer work to fit better with family life and a job. To that end, parental-leave arrangements in volunteer roles should become possible, and meetings should also take place digitally or in hybrid form.

The CDU wants to make volunteering easier. Volunteering means helping without pay. It should fit better with family and work. Meetings should also be possible online.

Develop the volunteering strategy and secure funding

The CDU wants to anchor volunteering as a cross-cutting issue in the state administration and name clear responsibilities. Funding for volunteer structures is to remain reliable after the coronavirus pandemic as well.

The CDU wants the state to look after volunteering better. The state offices should have clear contact persons. Clubs should keep getting reliable funding. This should also apply after Covid.

Expand voluntary service and ease its costs

The CDU wants to develop and expand voluntary service programs such as the FSJ, FÖJ and the Federal Volunteer Service. People doing such a service should be exempt from the broadcasting fee and get a low-cost statewide public transit ticket.

Many young people do a year of voluntary service. The CDU wants to expand these programs. These young people should not pay the broadcasting fee. They should get a cheap ticket for buses and trains across the state.

Index and increase sports funding

The CDU wants to raise state funding for sports on a regular basis and amend the Sports Promotion Act to do so. Organized sports are also to receive a share of revenue from online gambling and sports betting.

The CDU wants to give more money to sports. The money should go up regularly. It wants to change a law for this. Sports should also get money from online gambling and sports betting.

Promote swimming skills and exercise for children

The CDU wants every child to be able to swim safely by the end of elementary school. To achieve this, sports and swimming facilities are to be renovated further, and extra exercise programs created in elementary schools and daycare centers.

The CDU wants every child to swim safely after elementary school. Pools and sports fields should be repaired. Elementary schools should have one more hour of exercise each week. Daycare centers should offer more exercise too.

Support pastoral care and the work of religious communities

The CDU wants to give more support to pastoral care by religious communities and close funding gaps. A dedicated funding program is planned for the communities' music and youth work after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CDU wants to support pastoral care. Pastoral care means comfort and help in hard times. Religious communities should get more help for this. Their work with music and young people should get money too.

Keep Sunday rest and Christian holidays

The CDU wants to keep Sunday as a day of rest, citing its Christian meaning and the rest it gives families and workers. The current Bäderverordnung, which governs Sunday shop openings in resort towns, is to stay unchanged.

The CDU wants to keep Sunday as a day off. Sunday is a Christian holiday. Families and workers should have rest on that day. The rules for open shops in resort towns should stay as they are.

CDU: all 9 points with quotes and page numbers

FDP

Program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

  • Economybalanced (0), from 1 point

    Points per step: 0 clearly more state, 0 leaning more state, 1 balanced, 0 leaning more market, 0 clearly more market

Renovate sports facilities and support elite sports

The FDP wants to continue the state program for renovating municipal sports facilities and swimming pools so that school and recreational sports benefit. It also wants to fund training bases and performance centers for elite sports, arguing that recreational and elite sports depend on each other.

The FDP wants to keep fixing up local gyms and swimming pools. This helps sports in schools and clubs. Top athletes should also get good places to train. The FDP says recreational sports need role models.

Strengthen volunteering in sports

The FDP wants to raise the tax-free allowances for coaches and volunteers and adjust them on an ongoing basis. It argues that sports cannot function without volunteers and that recreational sports must be strengthened as a place where people come together.

Many people help out in sports clubs for free. The FDP wants them to be able to receive more tax-free money for this. It also wants less paperwork for volunteers. The FDP says there is no sport without volunteers.

Promote esports and grant nonprofit status

The FDP wants to keep funding esports programs in municipalities and link them more closely with organized club sports. At the federal level, it wants esports clubs to be recognized as nonprofit. It sees esports as an opportunity for innovation, digitalization, violence prevention and health.

Esports means people compete against each other in video games. The FDP wants to keep supporting esports. Esports clubs should count as nonprofit. That brings tax benefits. Companies that make money from esports should not get funding.

Strengthen consumer education, introduce hygiene labeling

On consumer protection, the FDP relies on responsible consumers who decide for themselves when well informed, and it rejects paternalism. It wants to keep funding the consumer advice center reliably, expand education and advice, and introduce a simple hygiene notice for restaurants and food retailers.

The FDP wants consumers to decide for themselves. For that, they need good information. The consumer advice center should keep getting enough money. Restaurants and shops should show simply how clean they are. The state should not tell people what to buy.

FDP: all 4 points with quotes and page numbers

Grüne

Program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

  • Economyleaning more state (-1), from 4 points

    Points per step: 0 clearly more state, 4 leaning more state, 0 balanced, 0 leaning more market, 0 clearly more market

  • Societyleaning progressive (-1), from 1 point

    Points per step: 0 clearly progressive, 1 leaning progressive, 0 balanced, 0 leaning conservative, 0 clearly conservative

Fund sports and make them more inclusive

The Greens want to keep funding grassroots and competitive sports according to need and renovate sports facilities. Clubs are to become more inclusive and get support for anti-discrimination work.

The Greens want to keep giving sports enough money. Gyms and fields should be repaired. People with disabilities should be able to join in everywhere. Nobody should be treated badly in a club.

Make sure every child learns to swim

The Greens want every child to learn to swim. To get there, they plan to fund more swimming facilities and strengthen swimming lessons in schools.

The Greens want all children to be able to swim. There should be more swimming pools. More teachers should be trained to teach swimming. Adults should get swimming courses too.

Recognize e-sports and build up association structures

The Greens want to strengthen e-sports and help set up a state association that would run the state e-sports center and receive state funding. At the same time, clubs are expected to build up addiction prevention and media education.

E-sports means playing video games in competitions. The Greens want to support e-sports clubs. There should be a state association for e-sports. The state should pay for it. Clubs should also help protect players from gaming addiction.

Strengthen consumer protection and introduce a hygiene rating

The Greens want to expand advice and information services for consumers and strengthen the consumer advice center and market surveillance authorities. Restaurants would get a hygiene rating label modeled on Denmark's system.

The Greens want to protect customers better. The consumer advice center helps people. It should get more support. Restaurants should show at the door how clean they are. A sticker would show this.

Strengthen infrastructure in rural areas

The Greens want to keep living and working in the countryside attractive by expanding infrastructure. This includes public transit, medical care, shopping, housing and places to meet.

The Greens want to improve life in the countryside. There should be good buses and trains. Doctors, shops and meeting places should be nearby. New homes should be built too, but without using much new land.

Launch an action program for local time policy

The Greens want to help municipalities better coordinate daily schedules with how local life is organized spatially. A two-year action program is to be funded for this.

Many people have too little time in daily life. The Greens want towns to help with this. There should be money for it for two years. After that, towns should have time offices.

Grüne: all 6 points with quotes and page numbers

SPD

Program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

  • Economyleaning more state (-1), from 4 points

    Points per step: 0 clearly more state, 4 leaning more state, 0 balanced, 0 leaning more market, 0 clearly more market

Expand consumer protection, cut food waste

The SPD wants to strengthen consumer protection and expand the advice offered by consumer centers. It also plans a strategy against food waste and wants to push for fair competition rules, especially in digital markets.

The SPD wants to protect consumers better. Consumers are people who buy things. There should be more advice, also right in the neighborhoods. Less food should end up in the trash. Small companies should have a fair chance against big online platforms.

Launch a "Zukunftsregionen" program for rural areas

The SPD wants to create a funding program in which counties and independent cities team up to launch joint projects for the future. It is to be financed with help from the EU and the federal government and is meant to strengthen rural areas.

The SPD wants to start a new program for regions. Counties and cities work together in it. They plan projects for the future together. Money should also come from the EU and the federal government.

Support sports clubs, elite sports and e-sports

The SPD wants to support sports clubs and volunteers in sports after the pandemic with a special initiative program and make state funding permanent. Federal training centers, inclusive sports offerings and e-sports are also to be supported.

The SPD wants to help sports clubs. Many clubs had a hard time because of Covid. So there should be a new program. Top-level sports should also get money. People with and without disabilities should be able to do sports together.

Build and renovate sports facilities and swimming pools

The SPD wants to keep funding municipal sports facilities, especially swimming pools, so that every child in the state learns to swim. Funding is to be geared more closely to municipalities' actual needs.

The SPD wants to give money for gyms and sports fields. Swimming pools matter most to it. Every child should learn to swim. Outdoor sports should also be open to everyone.

SPD: all 4 points with quotes and page numbers

SSW

Program for the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election

  • Economyleaning more state (-1), from 1 point

    Points per step: 0 clearly more state, 1 leaning more state, 0 balanced, 0 leaning more market, 0 clearly more market

Support sports and renovate sports facilities

The SSW wants to support professional and recreational sports and have sports facilities and swimming pools renovated through funding programs. Schleswig-Holstein should also get its own Olympic and Paralympic training center.

The SSW wants more support for sports. Gyms and swimming pools should be repaired. The state should give money for this. Schleswig-Holstein should get its own training center for Olympic sports.

Recognize esports as a sport

The SSW wants esports officially recognized as a sport and written into the rules on nonprofit status. This is meant to open the way for public funding and professional structures.

Esports means people compete in computer games. The SSW wants esports to count as a real sport. Then clubs can get money for it. The state should keep supporting esports.

SSW: all 2 points with quotes and page numbers