What do the parties in Berlin say on the economy?

The AfD wants to cut regulations systematically and repeal Berlin's own public procurement law. Founders and investors would get a single digital point of contact. In the party's view, the administration should focus more on residents and businesses.

The AfD wants fewer rules for businesses. Berlin has its own law for public contracts. The AfD wants to remove this law. People who start a company should get one office for all questions.

The AfD wants to attract high-tech companies to Berlin in a targeted way. Commercial land would be listed in a public register and made available to businesses as a priority. A central site for startups would be created, modeled on one in Paris.

The AfD wants more industry in Berlin. Above all, tech companies should come. A public list should show free land for businesses. Young companies should get one central place.

The Urban Tech Republic is to be built on the former Tegel airport as a digital and sustainable model district, including an experimentation zone where investment should face hardly any bureaucratic requirements. Other urban development plans include a concept for City-West and open city data.

The old Tegel airport should become a new city district. Research and companies should work there together. There should be a zone for testing new ideas. Companies there should face few rules. The city should also share more data openly.

The CDU wants the eight legally permitted shopping Sundays to actually take place and wants districts to be able to add two more per year. Late-night convenience stores (Spätis) are to get legally secure rules, and a strategy is to revive shopping streets and reduce vacancies.

Shops should open on Sundays more often. Districts should be able to add two extra Sundays a year. Spätis should get clear rules. Spätis are small shops that stay open late. Empty shops should be used again.

The CDU wants to cut red tape under a "one in, two out" rule and abolish, as a matter of principle, all state-level reporting and documentation requirements for businesses as of a set date. Only obligations that are explicitly justified would remain.

The CDU wants fewer rules for companies. For each new rule, two old rules should go. Companies often must write reports for the state. Most of these duties should end on one set day. Only well-justified duties should stay.

The CDU wants to abolish Berlin's own public tendering and procurement law (BerlAVG) and apply federal procurement law instead. The goals are less red tape, lower costs and more freedom for businesses. The training-place support fund is also to be reviewed and scrapped if necessary.

Berlin has its own rules for public contracts. These rules should go away. Then the federal rules apply. This should save companies work and money. A fund for training places will also be checked.

The CDU wants to fully digitalize business registration so companies can be founded within 24 hours. New businesses are to receive tax relief, and business successions are to be secured.

Starting a company should be fast. It should work within 24 hours. Registration should be fully digital. New companies should pay less tax. Companies should also find successors more easily.

Berlin is to become a leading location for security and defense technologies. The CDU wants to build a defense tech (DefTech) ecosystem and bring a TechHub SVI Ost to Berlin.

Berlin should become an important place for defense technology. Companies and research should work together there. The CDU wants to bring a new hub to Berlin.

The CDU wants to give more support to Berlin's pharmaceutical industry and medical device makers. In its view, this should attract investment, strengthen research and create high-quality jobs. Berlin is also meant to become a hub for environmental and climate technology and to grow its industrial output.

The CDU wants to support companies that make medicine and medical devices. This should bring money and good jobs to Berlin. Berlin should also develop technology for the environment and climate. Industry in Berlin should grow.

The CDU wants Berlin to remain Germany's start-up capital and a place where young companies can grow and scale internationally. To that end, venture capital structures are to be strengthened, new financing tools created and a Berlin Fund set up with the state investment bank IBB.

Berlin should stay the city of new companies. Young companies need money to grow. The CDU wants to start a Berlin Fund for this. A fund is a pot of money for companies. Other kinds of help should grow too.

The CDU wants to strengthen hotels, restaurants and tourism as economic sectors. It backs the permanently reduced VAT on restaurant food and wants a training campus for the hospitality industry and more international conferences.

Hotels, restaurants and tourism matter for Berlin. The CDU supports the lower tax on restaurant food. It wants a training campus for hotel and restaurant jobs. More big events from around the world should come to Berlin.

The CDU commits to the Messe master plan and wants to expand the state-owned trade fair company Messe Berlin as an international venue. Private investment in Messe Berlin is to be made possible. The ICC congress center is to be put to multiple uses.

The state owns the Berlin trade fair. The CDU wants to make it bigger and better known. Private investors should be allowed to put money in. The old ICC congress center should be used again.

The CDU wants Berlin's more than 60 state-owned companies to be run more efficiently and their oversight professionalized. The six state-owned housing companies are to be merged into no more than three, to eliminate duplicate structures and use investment funds more effectively.

Berlin owns more than 60 companies. The CDU wants them run better. Experts should oversee these companies. Berlin has six city-owned housing companies. They should become three at most.

The Greens want a hotel development plan that defines where new hotels and hostels may still be built in Berlin. Tourism is to be spread more evenly across the city so that individual places are not overloaded. Heavily visited neighborhoods are to get relief.

The Greens want a plan for hotels. The plan says where new hotels are allowed and where not. Tourists should spread out better across the whole city. Crowded neighborhoods should get help.

The Greens want to revive the "Ökologischer Tourismus" (ecological tourism) fund to support investments by hotels, restaurants and other providers. Short-term rentals to tourists are to be monitored more strictly so they do not worsen the housing shortage.

The Greens want tourism that is good for the environment. Hotels and restaurants get money if they save energy. Vacation apartments should be checked more strictly. This should keep homes for people in Berlin.

The Greens want to introduce a regional welfare index that makes progress and people's well-being measurable. It is meant to serve as the basis for Berlin's economic policy. According to the program, growth alone does not secure the city's future.

The Greens want a new measure for Berlin. It should show how well people are doing. Economic policy should follow this measure. The party says growth alone is not enough.

The Greens want to simplify permits and administrative procedures and remove more rules than they add. Standards are not to be lowered; the program explicitly sets itself apart from deregulation. Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are to be relieved.

The Greens want less paperwork. Offices should decide faster. More rules should go than new ones come. But important protection rules should stay. This helps small companies most of all.

The Greens want to reduce and digitize many documentation and reporting requirements for businesses. Standards, sustainability and fair competition are not to suffer. At the same time, close inspections and tough penalties are meant to target rule breakers.

Companies have to write many reports today. The Greens want to reduce these duties. Many reports should be possible online. People who break the rules should face tough penalties.

The Greens want to invest heavily in public infrastructure and link this to making state-owned companies climate neutral. The party sees this as an opportunity for Berlin's economy, especially for skilled trades and mid-sized firms. The funding programs of Investitionsbank Berlin (the state development bank) are to be aligned with climate goals.

The Greens want to invest a lot of money in Berlin. The money should go to energy, transport and schools, for example. Companies owned by the state should become climate neutral. That means they no longer emit harmful gases. Skilled trades firms should also get work from this.

The Greens want to promote self-employment and ease the burden on small and mid-sized businesses and solo self-employed people in particular. Self-employed people and freelancers are to get better social protection. More affordable work and production spaces are to be created for creative workers.

Many people in Berlin work for themselves. But their number is going down. The Greens want to ease the load on them and on small companies. Self-employed people should be better protected, for example when sick or old. Artists should get more affordable rooms to work in.

The Greens want a state law that allows real-world laboratories, experimentation clauses and faster procedures. New technologies and business models could then be tested under real conditions. Protective standards are to remain untouched.

The Greens want a new law for Berlin. It should make it easier to test new ideas and technology. Companies should be able to try new things faster in everyday life. Protection for workers and the environment should stay the same.

The Greens want to reform procurement law so that more small, young and Berlin-based companies win public contracts. Social and environmental standards are to be kept and enforced. Sustainability and fair work are to be binding foundations of contract awards.

The state of Berlin gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want to make the rules for this simpler. Small and young companies from Berlin should win contracts more easily. Rules on fair pay and the environment should stay.

The Greens want to strengthen Berlin's Zukunftsorte (designated innovation sites) and turn them into model regions for climate-neutral business. The conversion of the former airport building in Tegel into the Urban Tech Republic is to happen as fast as possible. Conventional commercial areas are also to become more sustainable.

Berlin has special places for research and companies. They are called Zukunftsorte. The Greens want to strengthen these places. They should show how business can work without harming the climate. The old Tegel airport should be converted quickly.

The Greens see a sustainable world's fair in Berlin in 2035 as an opportunity but attach conditions. The Expo must demonstrably advance the city's climate-friendly and socially just development. All funds are to benefit the city in the long run.

Some people want a world's fair in Berlin in 2035. The Greens support this under conditions. The Expo must help Berlin with climate protection and building. The money should still help people in Berlin afterward.

The Greens want to appoint a state start-up commissioner and examine setting up a state-owned innovation agency. Research results are to turn into new companies and business applications faster. Successful start-ups are to grow in Berlin instead of moving away.

The Greens want one person to look after young companies. This person should help government offices work together better. Research should lead to new companies more often. The Greens are also looking at a state agency for innovation. Young companies should stay and grow in Berlin.

The Greens want to strengthen social, solidarity-based and public-benefit enterprises with a master plan. A dedicated funding tool modeled on Hamburg and Bremen is also planned. The party sees these enterprises as drivers of change and innovation.

Some companies mainly want to help society. The Greens want to strengthen these companies. There should be a plan for this. A special funding program is also planned. Hamburg and Bremen are the models for it.

The Greens want to create affordable state-owned commercial space and give commercial tenants more protection. At the federal level, the party advocates a rent cap, a rent index and protection against eviction for businesses. In Berlin, Milieuschutz (neighborhood preservation rules) is to cover commercial tenants too.

Many businesses can hardly find affordable space. The Greens want to create low-cost commercial space owned by the state. Rents for businesses should be limited. Businesses should be better protected from losing their lease. Delivery vans should get more loading zones.

The Greens want to develop shopping centers so that they host cultural, educational and health services and government offices alongside stores. This is meant to prevent vacancies and keep neighborhood centers lively. The party also calls for fair competition with international online retail.

Many stores in Berlin are struggling. The Greens want to change shopping centers. They should also offer culture, education and doctors. This way fewer spaces would stand empty. Online sellers from abroad should be checked more closely.

The Greens want to push Berlin's industry toward climate neutrality and a circular economy. To do this, science, companies and start-ups are to work together more closely, backed by expanded state business development support.

The Greens want to change industry in Berlin. It should no longer harm the climate. Materials should be used again. Research and companies should work together more closely. The state should support this more.

The Greens want results from Berlin's research to flow more strongly into innovation and new companies. Berlin is to grow as a location for start-ups. The Charité university hospital is to be strengthened so that research findings reach patients faster.

A lot of research happens in Berlin. The Greens want more new companies to come out of it. Berlin should be a good place for young companies. The Charité hospital should get stronger. New findings should help sick people faster.

The Greens want to build up the innovative strength of Berlin's economy and make the city the number one location for innovation. To do this, they plan to strengthen the Zukunftsorte (designated innovation hubs) and further develop projects that link research and start-ups.

The Greens want many new ideas to come from Berlin. Berlin should become the best place for this. They want to strengthen the Zukunftsorte. These are places where research and companies work together. Projects for young companies should also get more support.

The Left wants to allow no further privatization and to gradually remunicipalize or socialize areas such as housing, public transit, care work, and health. Hospitals are to remain municipal. The party rejects cuts to social spending.

The Left wants to stop selling public companies. Important services should belong to the city again. These include housing, public transit, and health. Hospitals should stay with the city. The Left does not want to cut social services.

The Left wants to protect small shops and neighborhood facilities and proposes that no new shopping malls be approved. In its view there are already too many, and they push out small businesses. The construction of more hotels is also to be steered through a dedicated plan.

The Left wants to protect small shops in the neighborhoods. No new big shopping malls should be allowed. The party says there are already too many. They push out the small shops. There should also be a plan with rules for new hotels.

The Left wants to align Berlin's business subsidies with strategic goals and tie them strictly to conditions such as collective bargaining coverage, ecological sustainability, and employment. Smaller companies, start-ups, migrant-run businesses, and women in business are to receive targeted support.

Berlin gives companies subsidy money. The Left wants strict conditions for it. Companies should pay union-agreed wages and work in a green way. Small companies should get subsidies more easily. Founders and businesses run by immigrants should also get help.

The Left wants to make public procurement simpler and more digital so that smaller companies also get a chance. Approved-supplier lists and certificates are to replace repeated paperwork. At the same time, collective agreements, public-benefit orientation, open source, and human rights and environmental standards are to count in purchasing.

The state awards contracts to companies. The Left wants to make this easier. Companies with union pay agreements go on a list. Then they do not have to fill out every form each time. Small Berlin companies should get help. Human rights and the environment should count when the state buys things.

The Left wants to create new state-owned and cooperative Gewerbehöfe (shared commercial buildings) to offer small businesses affordable space. The state-owned company WISTA is to receive more capital for this, and Berlin's land fund is to be able to buy more property.

Small businesses can hardly find affordable space in Berlin. The Left wants to build new shared commercial buildings. These are buildings with rooms for many businesses. The state of Berlin should own such buildings itself. Berlin should also buy more land.

The Left wants to use the Bundesrat to achieve a permanent legal cap on commercial rents, including a multi-year rent freeze. A ban on vacancy is also to apply to commercial properties. The platform justifies this with the displacement of small shops and social facilities.

Rents for shops and businesses are rising fast in Berlin. Many small shops and daycare centers have to close because of this. The Left wants a law against high commercial rents. Rents should not be allowed to rise for several years. Commercial space must not stand empty.

The Left wants to have the state examine whether it can take over vacant department stores and shopping centers and turn them into neighborhood hubs with affordable shops. Small retailers are to get help with online business, and tradespeople are to get better parking and delivery access.

Many department stores and shops stand empty. The Left wants to check whether Berlin can take over such buildings. Low-cost shops, libraries, and daycare centers should go there. Small shops should get help selling online. Tradespeople and care services should be able to park more easily.

The Left wants to raise industry's share of Berlin's economic output and make the region a pioneer of carbon-neutral production. A state-owned industrial holding company is to take stakes in important companies in crisis. Existing networks and the Masterplan Industriestadt (industrial city master plan) are to continue with better funding.

The Left wants to strengthen industry in Berlin. Factories should produce in a climate-friendly way. The state of Berlin should set up its own holding company. It buys shares in important companies in trouble. That way, jobs should stay in Berlin. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The Left wants more local production and wants outsourced manufacturing brought back. Public contracts and investment subsidies should, as far as possible, be tied to commitments to keep sites open, to transformation plans, and to training agreements.

The Left wants more goods to be made in the region. Companies should bring production back from abroad. Anyone who gets contracts or money from the state should make promises. For example: the plant stays in Berlin and the jobs stay safe.

The Left wants to make tourism more compatible with city life and spread visitors more evenly across Berlin. Messe Berlin, the trade fair company, should remain publicly owned, keep its own fair formats, and develop new ones.

Many tourists come to Berlin. That brings money, but also noise and problems in neighborhoods. The Left wants to spread visitors better across the city. The trade fair should still belong to the state of Berlin. The Left does not want to sell it.

The Left rejects additional arms production and arms research in Berlin and wants to convert existing arms manufacturers to civilian production. In the platform's view, rearmament increases the risk of war and offers no sustainable economic prospects.

The Left wants no new weapons factories in Berlin. Civilian plants should not start making weapons. Existing arms makers should switch to civilian products. This should keep the jobs safe for the long term. The Left says: more weapons make war more likely.

The Left wants to strengthen alternative forms of business such as cooperatives, collectively run firms, and social enterprises. Permanent contact points, more advisory services, a state strategy, and stronger alternative economic research at universities are meant to contribute to this.

Some businesses belong to the people who work there. Others mainly want to benefit society. The Left wants to support such businesses. There should be permanent contact points and more advice. Research on other ways of doing business should also grow.

The Left wants to keep the rule that public contracts go only to companies paying collectively agreed wages, and it opposes raising the contract-value thresholds, which it says would hollow out that rule. At the same time, the procurement process is to become simpler and digital, and compliance is to be checked more closely.

Berlin gives many contracts to companies. These companies must pay union-scale wages. The Left wants to keep this rule. The process should become simpler and digital. There should also be more checks.

The SPD wants to build a joint economic and labor market region with Brandenburg. The two states are to coordinate on the local business tax, on collective wage compliance and on location policy so that fair conditions apply across the metropolitan region.

Berlin and Brandenburg should work together more closely on the economy. Both states should agree on taxes for companies. They should also use the same rules for fair pay. They want to plan new sites for businesses together.

The SPD wants to give targeted support to future industries and cutting-edge technologies and bring Berlin to the top of Europe's innovation locations. To do so, technology sites such as Tegel and Siemensstadt are to be expanded and science and business linked more closely.

The SPD wants many new ideas and products to come from Berlin. It wants to support modern industries. These include health, AI and climate protection. Places like Tegel and Siemensstadt should grow. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The SPD wants to give more support to new businesses, especially those founded by women, by people with a migration background and in future industries. Women are to get easier access to funding and venture capital. The party wants startups to create jobs covered by collective agreements.

The SPD wants more people in Berlin to start a company. Women should get money for this more easily. People with roots abroad should also get more help. Advice should be offered in several languages. Self-employed people should get low-cost workspaces.

The SPD wants to give more support to Berlin's creative industries, from fashion and design to games. Clubs are to get their own venue funding for the first time, and esports funding is to be added to the existing games funding.

Berlin has many creative companies. The SPD wants to support them. Clubs are to get their own funding for the first time. Esports should also get money. Esports means competing in video games. Fashion week should stay important.

The SPD commits to industry in Berlin and wants to actively guide its shift to reliable, affordable and carbon-neutral production. Industry, skilled trades, the digital economy and research are to be linked more closely so that production in the region can scale up.

More than 100,000 people work in Berlin's industry. The SPD wants to keep these jobs. Factories should become climate-friendly and still work at affordable cost. Companies, trades and research should work together more closely. On some business sites, homes for skilled workers should also be built.

The SPD wants to make it easier for small and midsize companies to win public contracts and to better equip business development offices in the districts. The agency Berlin Partner is to be strengthened and is to simplify the recruitment of skilled workers from abroad.

The SPD wants to help small and midsize companies. Public contracts should be easier to get. The districts should have more staff to advise companies. Berlin should be able to bring in skilled workers from abroad more easily. There should be less red tape for this.

The SPD wants to preserve retail, restaurants and culture in all parts of the city and make shopping streets more attractive. Business improvement districts are to be possible in every borough, and retailers are to get bridging aid when construction sites cut into their sales.

The SPD wants to keep shops, restaurants and culture in the neighborhoods. Shopping streets should become nicer. Shop owners and residents should be able to form groups. Shops often lose customers near construction sites. Then they should get money as help.

The SPD wants to protect businesses in neighborhoods from being pushed out. It is pressing at the federal level for laws that allow affordable commercial rents and wants to build three more city-owned commercial centers by the end of the next term.

Many businesses can hardly afford the rent for their space. The SPD wants to protect them. The federal government should make rules for affordable business rents. Berlin should build three new city-owned commercial centers. Businesses can rent space there at low cost.

The SPD wants to build up Berlin as a fair trade capital and align public purchasing more closely with fair criteria. It also wants to promote business models oriented toward the common good and a circular economy in which products are used for a long time.

The SPD wants to strengthen fair trade in Berlin. The state itself should buy more fair products. Products should last a long time. People should repair or recycle them. The SPD wants to help companies do this.

The SPD wants to expand the existing internationalization concept into a comprehensive strategy. Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are to get support for activities abroad, and trade ties with emerging markets are to be deepened.

The SPD wants Berlin companies to do more business abroad. There will be a big plan for this. Small and medium-sized companies will get the most help. Berlin will have more offices in other countries.

The SPD wants to bring more major events to Berlin because they generate revenue and jobs. To that end, the trade fair grounds are to be modernized and the ICC converted, together with private partners, into a center for culture, creative industries, and major events.

The SPD wants more big events in Berlin. They bring money and jobs. The trade fair grounds will be modernized. The ICC is a large congress building. It will be used again.

The SPD sees tourism as a key pillar of the economy and wants to make it more sustainable and more evenly spread across the city. More of the City Tax revenue is to go toward tourism that is compatible with city life.

The SPD wants to support tourism in Berlin. Visitors should spread out across the whole city. Tourism should harm the environment less. Money from the overnight-stay tax will be used for this.

The SPD wants water, the power grid and district heating to stay in state hands and plans to write a privatization brake into Berlin's constitution. State-owned companies are to be economically strong and serve the common good.

Water, the power grid and district heating belong to the state of Berlin. It should stay that way. The SPD wants to write this into the constitution. Then they cannot simply be sold.