What do the parties say on the economy?

The AfD wants to keep state intervention in the market to a minimum and remove rules for businesses. Among other things, the supply chain law, the packaging law and the ban on combustion engines would go. The party argues that this bureaucracy distorts competition.

The AfD wants fewer rules for companies. The supply chain law should end. This law makes companies check on their suppliers. The packaging law should end too. Cars with gas and diesel engines should stay allowed.

The AfD wants to expand international trade and remove barriers. It wants trade deals that secure raw material supplies, an end to sanctions it considers harmful to the economy, and repeal of the carbon border adjustment.

The AfD wants more trade with other countries. Barriers to trade should go. New deals should secure raw materials for Germany. Sanctions should end if they hurt the economy. Sanctions are penalties against other countries.

The AfD wants German companies to have open access to foreign markets, raw materials and trade routes. It rejects the Lieferkettengesetz (supply chain law), wants to expand trade with China and, at the same time, better protect German companies from foreign takeovers.

The AfD wants German companies to trade freely everywhere. It is against the supply chain law. That law makes companies watch human rights at their suppliers. Trade with China should grow. Important German companies should not be sold to foreigners.

The AfD rejects government subsidies for particular technologies and wants the market to decide what prevails. The exception is technologies that serve strategic independence, which the state should fund directly. The platform calls support for the semiconductor industry wasted tax money.

The AfD wants no tax money for single technologies. The market should decide which technology wins. There is one exception. Some technologies make Germany independent. The state should pay for those directly.

The BSW wants Germany to stay out of economic sanctions that, in the program's view, the United States pursues in its own interest. Trade agreements should secure supplies, export markets and standards rather than serve corporate interests. Regional economic cycles should be strengthened.

The BSW wants trade with many countries. Germany should not join US sanctions. Sanctions are trade penalties against a country. More key goods should come from Germany.

The BSW wants an active state industrial policy and wants to raise spending on research and development to at least four percent of economic output by 2030. An industrial fund is to invest in future sectors, key industries and start-ups. In the party's view, the state bears risks that private investors avoid.

The BSW wants to spend more money on research. The state should protect and rebuild key industries. A new fund should invest in young companies. A fund is a large pool of money.

The BSW wants to turn large state-supported companies in key industries into foundation-owned companies and expand worker co-determination there. For mid-sized firms, a new legal form, the company with tied assets, is to be created. Profits would then stay in the company rather than flow to shareholders.

Some big companies get money from the state. The BSW wants to turn them into foundation-owned companies. Then the profit stays in the company. Mid-sized firms should get a new legal form.

The BSW wants corporations to be taxed as heavily in Germany as mid-sized businesses and wants to stop profit shifting abroad. The Federal Cartel Office should get more resources and powers to limit market power. Smaller companies should be relieved of red tape.

Big corporations often pay less tax than small firms. The BSW wants to change that. The cartel office should become stronger. The cartel office checks whether companies are too powerful. Small firms should have less paperwork.

The BSW wants to cut rules, requirements and procedures for businesses, which it sees as a lever for growth and innovation. Mandatory sustainability reporting would be suspended immediately and the supply chain law reformed. EU rules should not be implemented more strictly than required.

The BSW wants less red tape for companies. Companies should no longer have to write sustainability reports. The supply chain law should change. EU rules should not become even stricter in Germany.

The BSW wants to strengthen consumer protection because, in its view, large companies dictate prices and terms. It plans strict rules for the SCHUFA credit agency, clear food labeling and a ban on electricity and gas shutoffs.

The BSW wants to protect customers better. The SCHUFA should get strict rules. The SCHUFA collects data about debts. Food labels should clearly say what is inside. Nobody should have their power or gas cut off.

The CDU and the CSU want to pass a law cutting red tape every year and to strike two old rules for each new one. Documentation and reporting duties for companies are to shrink. The platform sees cutting red tape as giving back freedom and wants to relieve small and mid-sized firms in particular.

The CDU and the CSU want less red tape. Every year a law should remove old rules. For one new rule, two old ones should go. Companies should have to hand in fewer records and reports.

The CDU and the CSU want to abolish Germany's Supply Chain Act and to stop burdens from the taxonomy and sustainability reporting at the European level. EU law is no longer to be implemented in Germany more strictly than required.

The CDU and the CSU want to end the German supply chain law. This law makes companies watch over their suppliers. Fewer rules for companies should come from the EU too. Germany should not make EU rules stricter than needed.

The CDU and the CSU want to make the economy more resilient to crises, takeovers by systemic rivals and cyberattacks. At the same time, interventions by the Federal Cartel Office are again to require a breach of law. The platform points to growing geo-economic risks.

The CDU and the CSU want to protect the economy better. Rivals from other countries should not simply buy important companies. Small companies should get help against attacks from the internet. The cartel office should step in only when a law is broken.

The CDU and the CSU want to support free trade and conclude new trade agreements as well as energy and raw material partnerships. International cooperation is to be geared to Germany's strategic economic interests. The platform points out that one in four jobs depends on exports.

The CDU and the CSU want free trade with other countries. There should be new deals on trade, energy and raw materials. Aid for poorer countries should also help German business. Many jobs in Germany depend on exports.

The CDU and the CSU want the Mercosur agreement to take effect quickly and back further EU trade deals. They consider tariffs generally the wrong approach. Exporting companies are to get easier access to guarantees and export licenses.

The CDU and the CSU want more free trade. The deal with South America should start soon. It is called the Mercosur agreement. Companies should sell goods abroad more easily. The parties mostly think tariffs are wrong.

The CDU and the CSU want to keep close economic ties with China as long as they rest on reciprocity. At the same time, critical dependencies are to shrink, for example in raw materials, supply chains, semiconductors and battery cells.

Germany should keep trading with China. But Germany should depend less on China. For this, there should be more trade partners. Europe should make more computer chips and batteries itself. More raw materials should also come from Germany.

The CDU and the CSU want to launch a high-tech agenda for research, innovation, technology and transfer. An innovation freedom act is to relieve research institutions of funding bureaucracy. Mid-sized companies and spin-offs are to get easier access to funding.

The CDU and the CSU want to strengthen research. Researchers should have to fill out fewer forms. There should be a new law for this. Small and mid-sized companies should get funding more easily. Germany should be a leader in new technology.

The CDU and the CSU want to make it easier to start a business. Founders are to be exempt from many rules in the early phase, and venture capital is to get more attractive tax treatment.

The CDU and the CSU want more people to start a company. At the start, founders should face fewer rules. Only one office should handle the founding. New companies should get money more easily.

The CDU and the CSU want to expand the European capital markets union quickly and make Germany Europe's leading financial center in the long run. Banks should not be overburdened, and the EU taxonomy is to be watered down. The platform expects growth, jobs and prosperity from this.

The CDU and the CSU want to strengthen the market for investments in Europe. Germany should become the most important place for finance in Europe. Banks should not carry too many burdens. Rules for shares should become looser.

The FDP calls for an immediate three-year halt to new bureaucratic burdens on businesses and a bureaucracy brake in the constitution. In its view, red tape weakens the economy, and cutting it is a stimulus program that costs nothing.

The FDP says companies have too much paperwork. For three years there should be no new rules for companies. The only exception is when other rules are removed first. The constitution should get a brake on bureaucracy.

The FDP wants to consolidate federal law and repeal outdated or contradictory statutes. Applications should normally count as approved if an authority does not respond in time. The aim is to cut red tape and strengthen competitiveness.

The FDP wants to remove old and unneeded laws. Offices should decide faster on applications. If an office does not answer in time, the application counts as approved. Businesses should have less paperwork.

The FDP wants to greatly simplify the rules for public contracts. In the program's view, complex procedures burden authorities and especially small and medium-sized businesses.

The state buys many things from companies. There are many rules for this. The FDP wants to make these rules much simpler. Small companies should get contracts more easily.

The FDP wants to scale back financial aid and tax breaks for individual industries and companies. Government stakes in companies are to be sold because, in the party's view, private investors run businesses better.

The FDP wants less state money for single companies and industries. The money should go to education instead. The state should sell its shares in companies. The FDP says private owners run companies better.

The FDP wants the EU to conclude as many free trade agreements as possible and calls for immediate ratification of the Mercosur agreement. More trade with more partners is meant to make Germany less dependent on single countries such as China and to secure jobs.

Germany sells many goods to other countries. The FDP wants more free trade deals. The deal with South America should take effect quickly. This should make Germany depend less on China.

The Free Voters want to make the economy internationally competitive again through lower costs, lower taxes and less red tape. Influence by the federal government and the EU on business decisions, which the party describes as ideological, should end.

The Free Voters want a stronger economy. Companies should pay less in taxes and costs. There should be less red tape. The party wants fewer rules from the Green Deal. That is the EU's climate plan.

The Free Voters want more targeted support for founders, especially in the growth phase, so that young companies do not move abroad. Innovation in the skilled trades and midsize businesses should also receive more support.

The Free Voters want to help new companies more. The federal government should support founders better. That way the companies stay in Germany. Skilled trades and smaller firms should also get help with new ideas.

The Free Voters want to relieve small and midsize businesses of red tape and taxes. They plan fewer documentation requirements and a reform of the Gewerbesteuer (local business tax) with higher allowances and graduated rates.

Small and midsize companies should have less paperwork. They should also pay less Gewerbesteuer. That is a tax companies pay to their town. This should help companies invest more and grow.

The Free Voters want to keep the Meisterpflicht (the requirement to hold a master craftsman certificate to run a trade business) and extend it to further sectors. To secure skilled workers, dual vocational training is to be strengthened and master craftsman and master's degrees valued equally.

In some trades, only a master craftsman may run a business. The Free Voters want to keep this and apply it to more trades. Training on the job should become more attractive. A master craftsman title should count as much as a university master's degree.

The Free Voters want to keep value creation and purchasing power in the regions and to promote regional companies and products. The federal government should fund regional management and advertise “Made in Germany” worldwide.

The Free Voters want stronger regions. People should buy more goods from their own area. That keeps jobs local. The federal government should give regions money for their own projects. It should also advertise German products.

The Free Voters want to repeal the Supply Chain Act for small and mid-sized companies and to stop the sustainability reporting initiated by the EU. In the platform's view, both create high costs and red tape and weaken competitiveness.

The Supply Chain Act makes companies check human rights at their suppliers. The Free Voters want to end this law for mid-sized companies. They also want to stop sustainability reports. The party says these rules cost companies too much time and money.

The Free Voters want basic services such as drinking water, education and health care to remain a public responsibility. The platform rejects any interference through trade agreements or EU law.

Some things everyone needs to live. These include drinking water, schools and doctors. The Free Voters want the state to stay in charge of them. Private companies should not take over these areas.

The Free Voters want to support local shops, regional products and food trades, and to ensure a level playing field between online and in-store retail. Parcel imports from Asia on which no taxes are paid are to be stopped.

The Free Voters want to support shops in city centers. Bakers, butchers and regional products should get help too. The party wants to stop parcels from Asia that come in without paid taxes. Shops and online sellers should have the same rules.

The Free Voters want tax relief for small and medium-sized businesses and the liberal professions, and fewer regulations. For every new burden, two old rules should be dropped. According to the platform, the goal is to reward effort and make investment easier.

The Free Voters want to help small companies. For every new rule, two old rules should go. Small companies should have less work with taxes. The tax return should become simpler.

The Greens want the German economy to grow in a climate-neutral, sustainable and innovative way while staying competitive. Businesses are to get simpler rules along with reliable goals.

The Greens want an economy that protects the climate. The economy should still grow. Companies should get simpler rules. The goals set by politics should stay reliable.

The Greens want to cut red tape, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. The so-called Praxischeck (practice check) would be extended to all sectors, and rules would be reviewed regularly. Social and environmental protection standards are to stay in place.

The Greens want less red tape for companies. Red tape means many forms and complicated rules. Experts and affected people would look for needless rules together. Protection for people and nature would stay.

The Greens want to give companies that invest in Germany a bonus worth ten percent of the investment for five years. It would apply to all firms and all investments except buildings. The aim is to ease the tax burden on private investment.

Companies would get money when they invest in Germany. They get ten percent of the sum back. This would last five years. It does not apply to buildings.

The Greens want to make it easier for young companies to get private capital and to simplify founding a business. In the platform's view, financing is a major weakness compared with the US and China. Germany and Europe are said to need a new startup culture.

The Greens want to help young companies. These companies should get money from investors more easily. Starting a company should become simpler and digital. Founders would get advice in one place.

The Greens want to make it easier to found companies, especially out of academia. Researchers would be able to take unpaid leave to start a business, and employees would more easily get a share in their company's success.

The Greens want to help new companies. Researchers can take a break from their job to start a company. They get no pay during that time. Workers should get shares in their company more easily.

The Greens want more support for research, development and production in key technologies so that Germany catches up with the leading countries. In the program's view, future prosperity depends on this.

The Greens want to support important new technology. This includes AI, microchips and batteries. Germany should be among the best countries here. This should secure good jobs.

The Greens want to improve conditions for skilled trades, small businesses and solo self-employed people. The Meisterbrief (master craftsman certificate) would become free, and the self-employed would get clearer rules and better social protection.

The Greens want to help the skilled trades. The master craftsman certificate should cost nothing. Trainees should get a minimum wage in each sector. People who work alone for themselves should be better protected.

The Greens want to develop competition law further to better protect small and mid-sized companies and consumers from monopolies. Large platforms should not be able to extend their market power into further lines of business.

The Greens want stricter rules for very large companies. Big internet platforms should not become even more powerful. Small companies and customers should be better protected. Platforms should be responsible for their products like a shop.

The Greens want a comprehensive overhaul of the rules for public contracts. Sustainable procurement would become simpler and the norm, while municipalities and companies would face less administrative effort.

The state buys many things and awards contracts. The Greens want to make the rules for this simpler. The state should usually buy in an eco-friendly way. Small companies should still get contracts easily.

The Greens want to create a new legal form for companies whose assets stay locked in the business. It is meant to give family firms and start-ups another succession option; in addition, public-benefit companies would get more support.

The Greens want to allow a new kind of company. Its money stays in the company. This should help when a company needs new owners. Companies that serve the common good should get more support.

The Greens want to expand the joint federal-state program for regional economic development so that rural areas also stay economically strong. They want to accompany structural change in the coal regions with investment and involve local people.

The Greens want more support for weaker regions. There should be good jobs in rural areas too. Coal regions should get new roads, rail, research and companies. People there should have a say.

The Greens want new trade partnerships to open markets and reduce dependencies. Agreements should, however, contain enforceable social and environmental standards, which in the party's view protect against a race to the bottom.

The Greens want more trade with many countries. This way Germany depends less on single countries. The agreements should contain firm rules. The rules protect workers, the climate and nature.

The Greens want to transpose the EU supply chain directive into German law with little bureaucracy. In the party's view, it ensures that products sold in Europe are made without exploitation and child labor.

The EU has passed rules for supply chains. Companies must check how their goods are made. There should be no child labor and no exploitation. The Greens want to put these rules into practice in Germany in a simple way.

The Greens want to protect European industry against what they see as unfair trade practices. This includes countervailing duties, a more effective carbon border adjustment, stricter customs rules for online retailers and protection of key sectors from takeovers.

The Greens want to protect companies in Europe from unfair trade. Some foreign goods should face tariffs, for example steel. Online sellers like Temu should not be able to get around customs. Important sectors should be protected from buyouts.

The Left wants to curb the power of large food and retail corporations with tougher antitrust law and break up monopolies. Speculation on food is to be banned. Farmers and consumers are meant to benefit.

A few big supermarket chains have a lot of power. The Left wants to limit that power. Companies that are too big should be split up. Nobody should be allowed to speculate on food. Farmers should get minimum prices where needed.

The Left wants to create an independent federal agency that monitors prices and can intervene quickly when key industries raise them sharply. In the energy sector, price increases would need approval.

A new agency should watch prices. It should warn early when prices rise too much. Then the state should be able to step in fast. Energy companies should need permission to raise prices.

The Left calls for a binding ceiling on the pay of managers and board members. It may be at most twenty times the lowest salary in the company.

Managers should not be able to earn unlimited amounts. The Left wants a fixed limit. A manager may get at most 20 times what the lowest-paid person in the company gets. Bonuses count too.

The Left wants to expand the Lieferkettengesetz (Supply Chain Act), which requires companies to respect human rights and environmental standards among their suppliers. Violations would be punished more severely.

Companies buy goods and parts in many countries. A law requires them to respect human rights when they do. The Left wants to make this law stricter. Companies should face tougher penalties if they break it.

The Left calls for 200 billion euros for an investment fund that helps companies convert to climate-friendly production. Support is to come as long-term loans or in exchange for company shares. A binding future plan for the economy is to form the basis.

The Left wants 200 billion euros to rebuild industry. The money goes into a fund. Companies get loans from it. Or the state gets shares in the company in return. This should make industry climate-friendly.

The Left wants to grant state aid and subsidies only in return for binding commitments from companies. These include guarantees for employees, collective agreements, commitments to sites and investment plans. Funding is to be repaid if the conditions are broken.

Companies should only get state money in return for firm promises. They must protect jobs and pay union-agreed wages. They must keep their sites. Companies that break the promises pay the money back.

The Left wants the federal government to buy stakes in important companies through industrial foundations and other forms of public ownership. This is meant to steer the climate-friendly conversion better and protect critical infrastructure from being sold off.

The federal government should buy shares in important companies. Industrial foundations should be set up for this. This lets the state steer the rebuilding of the economy. Important sites like ports or pipelines should not be sold.

The Left wants to give works councils co-determination on economic matters. Workforces are to confirm major decisions and be able to veto relocations, closures and mass layoffs. In regions undergoing structural change, transformation councils are to help shape the conversion.

Workers should have more say in companies. Big decisions need the workers' approval. Workers should be able to stop closures and mass layoffs. In affected regions, councils should help decide on the changes.

The Left wants to keep auto industry sites and jobs and convert the companies into mobility manufacturers that produce more for buses and rail. Plants the corporations want to give up are to be socialized. Electric mobility is to advance through public procurement, quotas and charging infrastructure.

The Left wants to keep jobs in the car industry. The companies should build more buses and trains. If a company wants to close a plant, the plant should become public property. The state should only buy electric cars. There should be more charging stations.

The Left calls for a federal fund that municipalities and states can use to bring privatized companies back into public ownership and run them on a nonprofit basis. Municipalities should carry out their tasks themselves instead of handing them to private providers.

Towns sold many companies in the past. The Left wants to bring them back. The federal government should give money for this. These companies should not work for profit.

The Left wants to accompany structural change in eastern Germany with investment plans, especially in regions with an auto industry. Workers would be protected through transitional employment companies and guaranteed incomes.

The economy in the East is changing. The Left wants investment plans for this change. New jobs should come from building trains. Workers should keep a secure income.

The ÖDP wants to remove economic growth as a statutory goal and orient the economy toward a circular model and the common good. A common-good balance sheet is to complement gross domestic product. In the party's view, GDP says nothing about actual prosperity.

The ÖDP says the economy should not always have to grow. This goal should be removed from the law. Products should last longer and be easy to repair. Companies should also show what they do for everyone. The party calls this a common-good balance sheet.

The ÖDP wants to cancel or halt free trade agreements such as CETA and Mercosur and conclude only agreements it considers fair. A stricter supply chain law, a carbon border tax and import bans are meant to shield small and mid-sized firms from competition based on low environmental and social standards.

The ÖDP wants to end free trade deals. New deals should be fair. Companies should have to care about the environment and people at their suppliers. Some goods from rainforest areas should no longer enter the country. This is meant to help small and mid-sized companies.

The ÖDP wants public companies, public institutions and all municipalities to publish a common-good balance sheet alongside their financial accounts. Private companies would do so voluntarily and gain advantages in taxes, subsidies and public contracts.

The ÖDP wants a common-good report. It shows what an organization does for people and nature. Public companies and towns would have to write one. Private companies could write one by choice. Then they would get benefits from the state.

The ÖDP wants to strictly separate banks that issue loans from investment banking and asset management. Stock exchanges should again serve mainly to supply companies with capital.

The ÖDP wants to split up banks. A bank should either give loans or trade in securities. It should not do both. The stock market should mainly raise money for companies.

The ÖDP wants to prohibit the privatization of basic public services. Public-private partnerships would be banned without exception.

Everyone needs some things, like drinking water and roads. The ÖDP wants the state to keep them. The state should not sell them to companies. Joint projects of state and companies should also be banned.

The PdF wants to lower the corporate income tax and replace the Gewerbesteuer (local trade tax) with a municipal surcharge. The platform says companies in Germany carry a much higher burden than the EU average.

Companies in Germany pay more tax than in many EU countries. The PdF wants to cut the tax on company profits. The local trade tax should go. Towns get a surcharge on another tax instead.

The PdF wants to use targeted tax advantages to encourage companies to invest, do research and innovate. Key industries, small businesses and structurally weak regions are to get particular support.

The PdF wants to reward companies that invest and do research. These companies should pay less tax. Important industries and small firms get special help. Weaker regions should get support too.

The PdF wants to reduce the administrative burden on companies, including through a single point of contact for tax and regulatory matters. The platform argues that long approval procedures and complex tax requirements hold back innovation and competitiveness.

The PdF wants less paperwork for companies. Companies should deal with only one government office. Reports and applications should work online. This should save companies time and money.

The PdF wants to scrap funding programs it considers ineffective or that mainly benefit large corporations and lobby groups. The money freed up would go more toward innovation at small and medium-sized companies, especially in digitalization and climate protection.

The government gives companies funding. The PdF wants to end programs that do not work. More money should go to small and medium-sized companies. Digital technology and climate protection are the main goals.

The PdF wants a legal ban on manufacturers deliberately designing products to become unusable early. Manufacturers would also have to state how long a product is expected to last and whether it can be repaired.

Some companies build devices so that they break early. This is called planned obsolescence. The PdF wants to ban it. Companies should have to say how long a device lasts. Those who use poor materials on purpose should be punished.

The PdF wants to prohibit manipulative online design, known as dark patterns, and to monitor misleading price and product claims more closely. A central complaints office would help consumers report violations.

Some websites trick customers. One example is a fake countdown on special offers. The PdF wants to ban such tricks. Companies should have to prove their discounts. Customers should be able to report violations to one central office.

The PdF supports trade that is as free as possible but wants trade agreements concluded only if they meet European environmental and social standards. It also wants to strengthen fair supply chains, intellectual property, and the fight against tax avoidance.

The PdF supports free trade. But trade deals should follow rules on the environment and social issues. A system like Fairtrade should promote fair trade. Patents and brands should be better protected. Tax loopholes should be closed.

The PdF wants to diversify trade so that the economy depends less on individual powers such as China. To that end, production in Europe is to be promoted, new markets opened up, and supply chains backed by the state.

The PdF wants less dependence on countries like China. Companies should make more goods in Europe. They should get tax breaks and subsidies for this. Germany should trade more with Africa and Southeast Asia. Weapons should also be bought and sold mainly within Europe.

The PdF wants to push through uniform Europe-wide size standards for clothing. Customers should then be able to pick the right size regardless of brand or manufacturer. This is meant to cut returns in online retail and ease the burden on retailers and the environment.

Clothing sizes differ from brand to brand today. So many people send back clothes they ordered. The PdF wants the same sizes across Europe. Then clothes will fit more often. That saves money and helps the environment.

The SPD wants German carmakers to be spared fines under the EU's CO2 fleet limits for now. It says the money is needed for climate-friendly vehicles and jobs. The targets themselves are to stay.

The EU has limits for CO2 from new cars. Companies that miss them pay a fine. The SPD wants German carmakers to pay no fines right now. They should spend the money on new cars and jobs. But the goals should stay.

The SPD wants to set up a Deutschlandfonds (Germany Fund) in which the state and private investors jointly finance investments. It would start with €100 billion and fund things like grids, charging stations and housing construction.

The SPD wants to start a new fund. It is called the Deutschlandfonds. The state and private investors both put money in. It should start with 100 billion euros. The money pays for things like power grids and homes.

The SPD wants tax relief for partnerships and sole proprietorships when they reinvest profits. A new legal form, the "Gesellschaft mit gebundenem Vermögen" (company with tied assets), is also meant to ease succession in mid-sized firms.

Some companies belong to individual people. If they put their profit back into the company, they should pay less tax. The SPD also wants to allow a new type of company. It makes it easier for employees, for example, to take over a firm.

The SPD wants to further shorten planning and approval procedures and to merge, simplify and digitize reporting obligations. The rights of workers and consumers and environmental goals are to be preserved.

The SPD wants less red tape. Permits should come faster. Companies should have to write fewer reports. Much should be done digitally. The rights of workers and consumers stay protected.

The SPD wants to supply industry with raw materials through the Rohstofffonds (raw materials fund), more domestic extraction and a coordinated EU strategy. The circular economy strategy is to be implemented pragmatically.

Industry needs raw materials. The SPD wants to extract more of them in Germany. The EU should have a shared plan for raw materials. Also, more materials should be reused.

The SPD wants to simplify the EU's carbon border adjustment and add export support so that climate-friendly production is not a competitive disadvantage. A European resilience strategy is also meant to bring key industries back to Europe.

Companies that produce in a climate-friendly way should not be worse off. The EU charges a CO2 price on some goods at the border. The SPD wants to make this rule simpler. Companies should also get help with exports. Key industries should produce in Europe again.

The SPD wants to agree on international standards for decent work with living wages and stands by the EU supply chain directive. At the UN level, too, it demands binding rules on business and human rights.

Companies buy goods and raw materials from all over the world. The SPD wants firm rules for this. Workers everywhere should earn enough to live on. Companies should respect human rights. These rules should apply worldwide.

The SPD wants the EU to design trade and investment agreements more simply and conclude them more quickly. Because, in the platform's view, individual member states too often slow down negotiations, a qualified majority in the Council of Ministers is to be enough in the future.

The EU makes trade deals with other countries. This often takes long because single EU countries slow things down. The SPD wants to change that. In the future, a large majority of EU countries should be enough. The deals should also protect the environment and human rights.

The Tierschutzpartei wants an additional tax on companies' unusually high windfall profits. In addition, the top salary in a company should be no more than 20 times the lowest one. The reasoning is that profits should not come at the expense of employees and the environment.

Some companies make very high profits by chance. The party wants an extra tax on these profits. Bosses should earn at most 20 times what the lowest-paid worker in the company earns.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to cut subsidies for industry and agriculture when they are considered environmentally harmful, unethical, or not viable in the future. The money saved would go toward new jobs and retraining for the workers affected.

The state gives money to some companies and farms. The party wants to stop this when it harms the environment. The money saved should create new jobs. Affected workers should get training and support.

The Tierschutzpartei wants an economic system measured by quality of life and satisfaction rather than growth. It commits to a post-growth economy and the Economy for the Common Good. Animals and nature should receive rights of their own.

The economy should not have to keep growing. What matters should be how well people are doing. Buying less should not be a disadvantage. Animals and nature should have their own rights too.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to block free trade agreements such as TTIP, CETA, JEFTA and the one with Mercosur. Standards for workers, consumers, the environment and animals are not to be weakened. Such agreements should be put to referendums.

The Tierschutzpartei opposes big trade deals with other countries. It fears weaker rules for work, the environment and animals. The people should vote on such deals. The negotiations should be public.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to introduce a right to repairability for technical devices and subsidize sustainable products. Manufacturers are to take responsibility for the entire life cycle of their products and for human rights in the supply chain. Subsidies for sectors that harm the environment or cause animal suffering are to be phased out.

The Tierschutzpartei wants devices to be repairable. People should have a right to that. Eco-friendly products should become cheaper. Companies with poor, short-lived products should face disadvantages. Harmful sectors should get no more state money.

Volt wants to expand regional economic development funding to advance infrastructure and economic growth in a targeted way. Incentives for remote jobs in rural areas and regional start-up centers are meant to keep skilled workers and young companies in the regions.

Volt wants to give more support to the economy in the regions. The state should spend more on roads, networks and businesses there. Companies should get benefits if they offer remote jobs in rural areas. That keeps skilled workers in the region. Young founders should get help in special centers.

Volt wants to reduce the administrative burden on companies. Procedures are to become digital and faster, and EU law is to be transposed without national add-ons. According to the platform, public administration should turn from a disadvantage into an advantage for Germany as a business location.

Volt wants less paperwork for companies. Government offices should work digitally and faster. Companies should write fewer reports about their suppliers. Big building projects should get a permit within three months.

Volt wants to give founders better security and make it easier for young companies to get capital. The platform sees new businesses as a source of innovation, jobs, and social and ecological change.

Volt wants to help people who start a company. Self-employed people should have better protection. Young companies should get money from investors more easily. There should be a new kind of company whose assets stay in the company.

Volt wants future technologies to be funded jointly through the EU instead of by each member state on its own. This is meant to let Europe keep up with the US and China. Corporate research would get more favorable tax treatment.

Volt wants the EU to fund new technology together. Today each country funds its own companies. This should help Europe keep up with the US and China. Companies should be able to deduct more research costs from their taxes.

Volt no longer wants gross domestic product to be the sole yardstick for economic performance. New indicators would also capture social and environmental factors, which the party says would give a more realistic picture.

Today the economy is mostly measured with GDP. GDP is the value of all goods and services in a country. Volt wants to develop more measures. They should also show the environment and social matters.

Volt wants to clear the investment backlog of recent decades with large-scale investment and to set up an infrastructure fund for this purpose. In the party's view, this secures prosperity, social peace, and the strategic autonomy of Germany and Europe.

Volt wants to put a lot of money into roads, rail, networks and schools. Volt says the state has done too little here for a long time. A new fund should also attract private investors. A fund is a pot of money for a set purpose. Independent bodies should prevent misuse.

Volt wants to require manufacturers to make their products durable and recyclable and to introduce a comprehensive right to repair. The aim is a shift to a circular economy so that the use of raw materials no longer rises with economic growth.

Volt wants products to last a long time. People should be able to repair and recycle them. Companies should have to offer spare parts. Independent repair shops should also get spare parts at fair prices. This is how Volt wants to save raw materials.