What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on the economy?

As a state government, the AfD wants to push the federal government and the EU to reverse the phase-out of new combustion engine cars. Supply chain laws and the related EU directives should also be repealed, because the platform sees them as harmful to business and workers.

The EU plans to stop allowing new cars with combustion engines. The AfD wants to stop this ban. It also wants to end the supply chain laws. These laws make companies check their suppliers. The AfD says this hurts companies and workers.

The AfD wants a fundamental reduction of regulation in the state: state rules would expire automatically after ten years at most, and two old rules would be dropped for every new one. EU requirements would be implemented only to the mandatory minimum, and the Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (supply chain due diligence act) would be abolished.

The AfD wants fewer rules for businesses. State laws should end on their own after ten years. For every new rule, two old rules should go. Applications should count as approved after three months. The supply chain law should be scrapped.

The CDU wants to set up a new fund that supports companies undergoing structural change with equity capital. It would also invest in especially innovative firms and support start-ups. In the CDU's view, viable companies should not fail for lack of capital.

The CDU wants to set up a new fund. A fund is a big pool of money. The money should help companies that must change a lot. Young companies with new ideas should get money too.

The CDU wants to help companies reach new foreign markets and merge existing export promotion efforts. "Baden-Württemberg Business Centers" are to be set up in key markets. The state premier is also to actively court investment.

Companies from Baden-Württemberg sell a lot abroad. The CDU wants to help them find new countries as customers. For this there should be special offices abroad. The state premier should promote the state.

The CDU wants to relieve small and mid-sized companies through less bureaucracy and faster permits. Deemed approvals are to be extended, and contacts with authorities pooled and digitized. An ombudsman's office is to help firms when procedures stall.

The CDU wants to make life easier for companies. Companies should have to write fewer reports. Offices should decide faster. If an office does not decide in time, the request counts as approved. Companies with problems can turn to a new office.

The CDU wants to make it possible to found a company digitally within 48 hours and to spare founders bureaucracy for a time. Foundation law is to be changed so that foundations can make long-term investments in entrepreneurial projects. According to the program, young companies in their growth phase need venture capital.

The CDU wants to make founding companies easier. People should be able to found a company online in 48 hours. New companies should have fewer rules to follow at first. Foundations should be allowed to put money into new companies.

The CDU wants its own high-tech agenda to promote key technologies and create regional high-tech clusters. In these, universities, research, start-ups, industry and mid-sized firms would work in networks. The aim is to turn knowledge into economic value faster.

The CDU wants to strongly support new technology in the state. This includes AI, robots and medical technology. In the regions, companies and universities should work closely together. This way ideas should become products faster.

The CDU wants to largely suspend state-level restrictions in at least ten real-world labs. New technologies are to be tested there under real conditions and reach the market faster. At the federal and EU level it wants to press for exemptions from rules in favor of innovation.

The CDU wants to create special test areas. They are called real-world labs. Far fewer state rules apply there. Companies can try out new technology there. There should be at least ten of them.

The CDU wants to work out a new tourism strategy with the industry and expand the tourism infrastructure program. The aim is to strengthen the state as a quality travel destination and secure jobs. Skilled workers for hospitality are also to be recruited.

Many people vacation in Baden-Württemberg. The CDU wants to make a new plan for tourism. Hotels and restaurants should have good conditions. There should be more skilled people for these jobs.

The CDU wants to write startup activity into law as a core task of universities on par with research and teaching. Startup centers with uniform early-stage funding are to support new companies up to market readiness, and the state higher education act is to make spin-offs easier.

The CDU wants more companies to start at universities. Starting companies should become a fixed task of universities. There should be startup centers with early money. Professors should be able to start companies more easily.

The CDU wants to let fully automated stores without staff open on Sundays. This is meant to improve local supply, especially in rural areas, without giving up Sunday protection as a whole.

Some stores run without any staff. The CDU wants these stores to open on Sundays too. This should help villages most. Sunday should otherwise stay protected. Sales staff do not have to work for this.

The Greens want to make Baden-Württemberg Germany's leading location for new businesses and new technologies. Lead candidate Cem Özdemir says he will make entrepreneurship a top-level priority so that the state's high spending on innovation pays off more.

The Greens want more new companies in the state. Baden-Württemberg should be the top place for this in Germany. Cem Özdemir wants to take care of this himself as head of government. New ideas should also earn money in the state.

The Greens want to maintain and renew the state's infrastructure. They plan further repairs to transport routes, faster broadband rollout and investment in the power system, because the platform says a strong economy depends on it.

The Greens want to repair roads, bridges and rail lines. Fast internet should be built out more quickly. There should also be more power lines and storage. The party says the economy needs this.

The Greens want to support approaches such as the Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie (economy for the common good) at state level and promote cooperatives. The aim is to win more companies over to sustainable and socially minded business.

The Greens want to support companies that think about the environment and society. Cooperatives should also get help. In a cooperative, the members decide together. The party says profit is not the only thing that counts there.

The Greens want to develop a technology strategy through 2035 and start a deep-tech research program backed by its own fund. Research findings should turn into products faster and secure jobs.

The Greens want a plan for new technology up to the year 2035. There should be a research program with its own money. Ideas from the lab should become products faster. This should keep good jobs.

The Greens want to set up spaces where new ideas can be tried out with fewer hurdles. They intend to use the protected test environments supported by the EU to bring innovations to market faster.

The Greens want to create places for trying things out. Companies and researchers can test new ideas there. There should be fewer obstacles. The EU supports such test places.

The Greens want to further strengthen the health industry as a pillar of the state's economy. To do so, the state agency BIOPRO is to be expanded and the university hospitals in Heidelberg and Mannheim are to be merged.

The Greens want to strengthen the health industry. A state agency called BIOPRO should get more tasks. The university hospitals in Heidelberg and Mannheim should join together. This should improve research and care.

The Greens want to further develop the state's strategy for attracting companies. Enough land should be available for businesses while using land sparingly.

The Greens want companies to find enough space in the state. This applies to new companies, trades and industry. The state should use land sparingly.

The Greens want to strengthen the state's foreign trade policy, expand partnerships and reduce one-sided dependencies. In Brussels, the party wants to push for more room for the state to support economic transformation in a targeted way.

The Greens want more cooperation with other countries. The state should not depend on single partners. This should help companies find new customers. At the EU, the party wants the state to be allowed to support companies better.

The Greens want to make the state less dependent on raw material imports. They rely on domestic extraction, recycling of materials and continuing the state strategy for a sustainable bioeconomy.

The Greens want the state to need fewer raw materials from abroad. Raw materials should also be sourced in the state. Valuable materials should be used again and again. This is called a circular economy.

The Greens advocate supply chains that are transparent and crisis-proof and that respect human rights as well as environmental and social standards. The European supply chain law is to be implemented in a practical way with little red tape.

The Greens want secure supply chains. A supply chain is the path of a product from raw material to customer. Human rights and environmental rules should apply along the way. The EU law on this should be easy to follow.

The Greens want the car of the future to be developed and built in Baden-Württemberg and are betting on electric drive. A future pact with industry, unions and research is to set goals and funding and secure jobs.

The Greens want to keep the car industry in the state. The car of the future should be built here. The party is counting on electric cars. There should be more charging stations and cheap charging power. Government, companies and unions should make a pact for this.

The Greens want to expand battery manufacturing in the state and in Europe and back a joint European industrial project to that end. The party also pushes for new semiconductor and chip plants in Germany and the EU.

The Greens want car batteries to be built in Europe. They support an EU plan for this. Computer chips should also be made in Germany and Europe. This should make Europe less dependent on other countries.

The Greens want to turn environmental and climate technology into one of the state's fastest-growing industries. They plan a GreenTech alliance that supports start-ups and mid-sized firms, especially in hydrogen technology, along with a shared umbrella brand.

The Greens want to give more support to green technology firms. They plan a new alliance for this. It helps young firms and mid-sized firms. A shared brand should make these firms known abroad.

The Greens want to lower the barriers to starting a business. A single point of contact would bundle advice, funding and registration so that a company can be founded within one day.

The Greens want to make it easier to start a business. There should be one office for everything. It gives advice, funding and handles the registration. Starting a business should take only 24 hours.

The Greens want to give young companies more state support in both the early and the growth stage. The early-stage program would be enlarged, and a new program with its own fund would support expansion and international growth.

The Greens want to give young firms more money. An existing program for the early phase should grow. A new program helps firms get bigger. The state should also buy from young firms itself.

The Greens want to relieve small and mid-sized companies of administrative burdens and reorganize the state's funding programs. According to the platform, businesses should be able to put their energy into products and jobs rather than paperwork.

The Greens want less paperwork for businesses. Rules that are not needed should go. Permits should come faster. Funding should be easier to find and apply for.

The Greens want master craftsman training to be free of charge and the Meisterprämie (master craftsman bonus) to be raised. They also want to make founding and taking over craft businesses more attractive, since the platform says demographic change threatens many firms.

The Greens want to strengthen skilled trades. Training to become a master craftsman should be free. The bonus for new masters should go up. People who start or take over a business should get help for longer.

The Greens want to help brick-and-mortar retail hold its ground against growing online shopping. Town centers are to become more attractive, and stores would get help with digital sales.

The Greens want to help shops in towns and villages. Town centers should become nicer and greener. Shops should get help with selling online. Online sellers should also be able to sell in town.

The Greens want to make tourism in the state more sustainable and more digital. They point to the climate crisis and heavy visitor numbers at popular sites and see hospitality as the core of sustainable tourism.

The Greens want to strengthen tourism in the state. It should be good for nature and the climate. Digital offers should make visits more exciting. Restaurants and inns should get support, especially in rural areas.

The Greens want to bring ideas from research to market more quickly. A fast-track procedure is planned for especially important products such as medicines, and research funding for key technologies is to grow.

The Greens want new ideas from research to reach people faster. Important products like medicines should get a fast procedure. The state should give more money for research on key technologies.

The Greens want to give more support to spin-offs and start-ups and simplify the founding process. For technology-oriented start-ups, support is to be targeted at women, people with a migration background and people from families without university experience.

The Greens want more people to start companies. Starting a company should become easier. Women and people with a migration background should get special help. People whose parents did not go to college should also get help.

The Greens want to maintain and expand the state's position as a hub of the bicycle industry. To that end, training for bicycle trades is to improve and a university chair for bicycle engineering is to be founded.

Baden-Württemberg has many bicycle companies. The Greens want to make this industry stronger. There should be better training for bicycle jobs. A university should do research on bicycle technology. E-bikes should also get more support.

The Greens want to amend the Ladenöffnungsgesetz (shop opening hours act) so that automated, unstaffed mini supermarkets can also open on Sundays. In addition, municipalities are to get help with digitalization, and telemedicine services are to be funded.

Small shops without staff should be allowed to open on Sundays. The Greens want to change a law for this. This helps people in rural areas buy groceries. Doctors should also be able to help by video.

The SPD wants companies to receive state support only if they commit to keeping their sites and jobs. According to the platform, the economic transformation is currently being carried out one-sidedly at workers' expense.

Companies sometimes get money from the state. The SPD wants to set a condition. Companies must keep their sites. They must also protect the jobs.

The SPD wants an active industrial and structural policy that promotes growth, future technologies and jobs. It plans a one-billion-euro transformation fund, regional advisory councils, model regions and an innovation drive. The aim is to bring the state back to the top in economic growth.

The SPD wants to give industry in the state more support. It plans one billion euros for this. The money is for roads, networks and new ideas. In the regions, unions and companies should plan together.

The SPD wants to bar new state rules that create additional bureaucracy for businesses for two years. Permit procedures would also be streamlined and sped up. Rules on workers' rights and on fair competition during the transformation are exempt.

The SPD wants a stop on new red tape. For two years, the state should make no new rules that mean more paperwork for companies. Permits should come faster. The stop does not apply to workers' rights.

The SPD wants to set up a state fund that takes temporary stakes in companies and start-ups whose products focus on sustainability. Supported firms would have to invest in the state and secure jobs. Returns would fund further state investment.

The SPD wants to start a state fund. The state gives companies money for a limited time and becomes a part owner. The companies must invest in the state and protect jobs. The state uses profits for new investments.

The SPD wants to make industry's supply of raw materials and semiconductors a top-level government priority. The platform sees dependence on individual, geopolitically risky suppliers as the greatest threat to the state's future viability.

Industry needs raw materials and computer chips. Many come from a few risky countries. The SPD wants to change that. Companies should produce more in the region and buy together.

The SPD wants to provide more financing for new companies, in both the founding and the growth phase, and to expand regional founder centers. Funding would be tied to fair working conditions. The platform argues that the state lags behind Bavaria, Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia in start-up rankings.

The SPD wants to help new companies more. There should be more money for start-ups. In return, the companies must treat their workers fairly. Women and non-binary people should also become more visible as founders.

The SPD wants to support tourism infrastructure together with municipalities and set up a fund for conventions and trade fairs. The Black Forest in particular would be strengthened as a destination, including by modernizing historic inns and huts.

The SPD wants to do more for tourism. There should be a fund for trade fairs and conventions. Old inns and hiking huts in the Black Forest should be modernized. Jobs in tourism should be good jobs.

The SPD wants to make it easier for municipalities to take on tasks such as energy, water, transit or housing themselves. The current priority for private providers would be dropped. The platform argues that profits then stay local and decisions remain under democratic control.

The SPD wants to strengthen public utilities and other town-owned companies. Today, private companies often come first. The SPD wants to change that. Towns should not be allowed to sell important networks. The state will help with money and loan guarantees.