What do the parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania say on the economy?

The AfD wants to write the social market economy into the state constitution as a state goal. It argues that subsidies, bans and bureaucracy are increasingly undermining this model.

The AfD wants to put the social market economy into the state constitution. Social market economy means: companies compete, and the state provides balance. The AfD says the state interferes too much. It wants to change that.

The AfD wants to fundamentally revise the state's Tariftreue- und Vergabegesetz (law tying public contracts to collectively agreed wages) and strike wage requirements from procurement. In its view the law disadvantages small firms, makes contracts more expensive and interferes with freedom of contract.

The state gives contracts to companies. Today these companies must pay union-level wages. The AfD wants to remove this rule. It says small companies otherwise have no chance of getting contracts.

The AfD wants to liberalize shop closing times and the Bäderverkaufsverordnung (rules on Sunday sales in resort towns) and allow more Sunday shopping days. It rejects new levies on businesses in a future tourism law.

The AfD wants shops to be allowed to open longer. There should be more Sundays when shops are open. Special sales rules should apply in more vacation towns. The AfD does not want new charges for tourism businesses.

The AfD wants to use a large share of federal and EU funding differently, mainly for location quality, technology, start-ups and self-employment. The state's microloan program would offer larger amounts and lower interest rates.

The state gets funding from the federal government and the EU. The AfD wants to spend this money differently. More money should go to founders and new technology. Small loans for founders should become larger and cheaper.

The AfD wants to support companies in using robotics, automation, software and artificial intelligence to partly make up for missing workers. Tax incentives would speed up such investments.

Many companies lack workers. The AfD wants companies to use more robots and computer programs. In return, companies should pay less tax. Government offices should also work more digitally.

The AfD wants to expand the health economy with a life sciences growth initiative and turn research into products faster. In the food industry, regional value chains would be strengthened.

The AfD wants more support for companies in medicine and research. Results from universities should become products faster. Food companies should also get help. What is grown in the state should also be processed there.

The AfD wants to keep giving targeted support to the state's shipyards, focusing on specialized vessels and ships for public purposes. Guarantees and other funding would be granted only after a strict risk assessment.

The AfD wants to keep helping the shipyards in the state. Shipyards are companies that build ships. They should mainly build special ships, for example for the navy and research. The state should check carefully how risky its help is.

The AfD wants to replace the Landesförderinstitut (state funding institute) with a central, digital state development bank and streamline the roughly 250 funding programs. All taxpayers would receive a pre-filled tax return, and access to public agencies would go digital.

The state hands out funding through its own institute. The AfD wants to create a new digital state bank for this. There should be fewer funding programs. Everyone should get a tax return that is already filled in.

The AfD wants to extend tourism across the whole year and into the inland regions. Its guiding ideas are quality over quantity and a balance between the coast and the interior. It plans winter offerings, more riding, cycling, and water tourism, and help with recruiting staff.

The AfD wants more tourists in winter. The land behind the coast should also get more guests. Riding, cycling, and rowing should matter more. Hotels and restaurants should find staff more easily.

The AfD rejects the state's planned tourism law. In its view, the law brings extra red tape, possible new levies, and centralization at the state level. Instead, it calls for more regional self-reliance and targeted help for businesses and infrastructure.

The state is planning a tourism law. The AfD is against it. It says the law brings more paperwork and maybe new fees. The regions should decide for themselves instead.

The Greens want to create conditions that lead power-hungry industries to set up in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The platform argues that the state has plenty of inexpensive renewable electricity and treats this as a location advantage.

Some factories need a lot of power. The Greens want to bring such factories to the state. They say the state has lots of cheap green power. This should create new jobs.

The Greens want Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to work more closely with the Hamburg metropolitan region and the neighboring northern states. Innovation and new jobs in rural areas in particular are meant to benefit.

Hamburg and the area around it have a strong economy. The Greens want to work more closely with that region. They also want to work with the neighboring states in the north. This should create new jobs, mostly in rural areas.

The Greens want public contracts and subsidies to reach companies in the state more often. Collectively agreed wage standards, good working conditions, and sustainability are to be observed consistently when contracts are awarded. The platform sees this as a way to secure small and mid-sized businesses and local jobs.

The government gives many contracts to companies. The Greens want more companies from the state to get these contracts. The companies should pay fair union-agreed wages. They should also protect the environment.

The Greens want a state strategy for the bioeconomy and the circular economy that involves all ministries. A statewide repair bonus is meant to make repairing electrical devices cheaper. The goal is to keep value creation in the state and create jobs.

The Greens want less waste and more reuse. The state should make a plan for this. People who get an electrical device repaired should get some money back. Companies that use natural raw materials should also get help.

The Greens want new state programs that help companies operate in ways that protect the environment and the climate. These include a program for corporate environmental management and one for social-ecological start-ups. According to the platform, sustainable business should become the standard.

The Greens want to help companies that protect the environment and the climate. The state should set up new funding programs for this. New companies with social and green goals also get help. People who start a company should get more money.

The Greens want to make it easier to start, run, and hand over a business. State laws are to be checked in advance for practicality, and funding programs for small and mid-sized firms are to be simplified. The platform sees bureaucracy as a brake on small and mid-sized business.

Small companies and tradespeople have a lot of paperwork. The Greens want to make this easier. New laws should be tested in real life first. Companies should only have to give their data to offices once.

The Greens want to support shipyards, ports, and maritime start-ups and to link research more closely with practice. The focus is on ship recycling, offshore wind, renewable propulsion, and climate-friendly shipping. This is meant to give shipyards reliable orders and keep jobs over the long term.

The state has many shipyards and ports. The Greens want to modernize them. Old ships should be taken apart and recycled here. New companies working with the sea get funding. Ports should get better rail links.

The Greens want to rewrite the state tourism law and focus it on sustainability and acceptance among local residents. Funding for tourism projects is to be tied to ecological and socioeconomic criteria. Year-round offerings are meant to extend the season and relieve heavily visited regions.

Many people vacation in the state. The Greens want a new law for tourism. Tourism should protect nature. There should be things to do all year. Less plastic and fertilizer should get into the Baltic Sea.

The Greens want to link universities more closely with business, society and the regions so that research findings are put to use more often. This includes a transfer strategy, support for university spin-offs and a state strategy for climate-neutral universities.

New ideas come from universities. The Greens want these ideas to reach companies more often. People who start a company out of a university should get help. The universities themselves should become climate neutral.

The Left wants to grant business subsidies only when social criteria are met. Workforces are to find it easier to take over companies, backed by rights of first refusal and a state investment fund. The program also focuses on skilled trades, the health industry and the games sector.

Companies often get money from the state. The Left wants to attach rules to this. Companies that pay very low wages should get no money. Workers should be able to take over their own company. The state should also support skilled trades and the health industry.

The Left wants to introduce a tourism levy to pay for infrastructure, quality and housing for employees. Shipyards are to be stabilized and modernized, with civilian shipbuilding given priority. For skilled workers in tourism, the party calls for higher wages and predictable working hours.

The Left wants a new levy on tourism. The money should pay for roads, buildings and good services. There should also be housing for workers. The shipyards in the state should be kept. They should mainly build civilian ships. Workers in hotels and restaurants should get higher pay.

The SPD wants to push at the federal level for small and mid-sized companies to be exempt from reporting obligations for two years. After that, a review would determine which obligations are actually necessary.

Companies have to send many reports to the government. The SPD wants to stop this for small and mid-sized companies. The stop should last two years. After that, the SPD wants to check which reports are really needed.

The SPD wants to create a development bank owned by the state. It is meant to make funding programs more flexible and better suited to the regional economy.

The SPD wants the state to have its own development bank. A development bank gives money and cheap loans for certain goals. The support should fit local companies better. Families should also get cheap loans.

The SPD wants to expand Rostock's overseas port and speed up development of the energy ports in Rostock, Sassnitz-Mukran and Lubmin. The state is to take a more active role and commits to its shipyards.

The SPD wants to expand the ports in the state. The overseas port in Rostock should get bigger. The state should help more with the ports. The SPD also wants to support the shipyards. Shipyards are places where ships are built.

The SPD wants to continue the "Industrieland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2030" concept beyond 2030. The goals are a more diversified economy and well-paid industrial jobs; to that end, the state is to market itself more actively to investors, companies and skilled workers.

The SPD wants more industry in the state. There is a plan for this until 2030. The SPD wants to extend the plan. This should create well-paid jobs. The state should advertise itself more as a place to work.

The SPD wants to move away from an economy that mainly consumes fossil raw materials toward a bio-based circular economy. Value creation from the field to the finished product is to stay in the state, which is meant to benefit rural areas in particular.

The SPD wants to use less oil, gas and coal as raw materials. Plants and leftovers should be the basis instead. This is called the bioeconomy. The products should be made in the state. This should bring jobs to rural areas.

The SPD wants to give targeted support to small and medium-sized businesses and the skilled trades and to make funding applications simpler. The program argues that small firms in particular struggle to find the resources for digitalization, climate neutrality and innovation.

The SPD wants to help small companies and skilled trades. Applying for state funding should become easier. Companies should get good advice. There should also be help with artificial intelligence.

The SPD wants tourism levies to give visitors something tangible in return, mainly through guest cards with discounts and free local public transit. People living in a vacation region should be able to use these offers at no extra charge and should not pay a visitor tax in neighboring towns. Tourist municipalities should also be better placed to invest in their infrastructure.

Tourists pay a fee in many towns. In return, they should get a guest card. With the card, they ride buses and trains for free. People who live in the region should get these offers too. Locals should not pay a visitor tax in the next town.

The SPD wants to review and rewrite the state's tourism strategy together with the industry. The aim is for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to become Germany's most popular travel destination with the best value for money. This includes higher quality, year-round offerings and better conditions for employees.

The SPD wants a new plan for tourism. Tourism companies should help write it. Vacations in the state should be good and not too expensive. There should be things to do all year. Workers should get better training.

The SPD wants to designate sites for technology-oriented companies and build them up with regional competence centers. These are meant to connect research, the regional economy and practical application, working closely with universities and research institutes.

The SPD wants to pick places for new tech companies. Centers there should help the companies. The centers work with universities. This should bring new firms and skilled workers to the state.

The SPD wants to strengthen and connect advisory services for new businesses and add easily accessible venture and equity capital to the funding mix. Fast-growing young companies, known as scale-ups, are to get their own funding and financing tools. Digital start-ups, e-sports and streaming should also find a place in the state's economy.

The SPD wants to help new companies. They should get good advice. They should also get start-up money more easily. Fast-growing young companies should get help too. Digital firms and e-sports should be able to grow in the state.

The SPD wants to keep enough land available for commerce and industry through forward-looking planning so that companies can continue to set up quickly. At the same time, state marketing under the slogan “MV tut gut” (MV does you good) is to promote the location's advantages at home and abroad.

Companies need space. The state should plan enough land for companies. Then new companies can come quickly. The state should also advertise itself. The slogan is “MV tut gut,” meaning MV does you good.

The SPD wants to make planning and permitting procedures for companies faster, simpler and more reliable, including through digitalization. For large industrial and infrastructure projects, a central state government task force is to bundle the procedures.

Companies often wait a long time for permits. The SPD wants to speed this up. Building applications should be possible online across the state. A central working group should handle big projects. Local people should still have a say.

The SPD wants to expand the state's foreign trade relations over the next five years to open new markets for companies and secure jobs. A cross-industry concept is to bundle the individual measures. The focus is on the democratic countries around the Baltic Sea.

Companies from the state should sell more abroad. The SPD wants an overall plan for this. Small companies get advice and funding. The democratic countries on the Baltic Sea matter most.

The SPD wants to expand the state's seaports as sites for the energy transition. Manufacturers that rely on renewable energy are to settle there and create value locally.

The SPD wants to expand the ports in the state. The ports should become important for the energy supply. New companies and jobs should come there. This is about Rostock, Sassnitz-Mukran and Lubmin.

The SPD wants to expand the state's ports so that industry can settle there and secure jobs are created. It calls on the federal government to provide at least 500 million euros a year on a permanent basis for all German sea and inland ports.

The SPD wants to expand the ports in the state. Companies should settle there. This should create new jobs. The federal government should give a lot of money for ports every year.

The SPD wants to strengthen the cultural and creative industries as an economic factor. Film funding is to be expanded, and the state's still small gaming industry is to get more support. The party wants to examine a statewide program for studios, rehearsal rooms and venues.

The SPD wants to strengthen creative jobs in the state. These include film, music, design and video games. Film funding should grow. Video game companies should get more help. Artists should find more spaces to work in.

The SPD wants to turn Mecklenburg-Vorpommern into a location for resource efficiency, recycling technology and raw material recovery. To that end, the circular economy is to be promoted and companies in this field helped to set up in the state.

Raw materials should be used more than once. This is called a circular economy. The SPD wants to bring companies to the state that recycle waste. These companies should get help.

The SPD wants to strengthen the state's food industry, which it describes as one of the most important sectors of the economy. New, innovative companies are to emerge, and small processors are to get help developing and marketing their products.

The SPD wants to help companies that make food. Many of these companies are small. They should get help when they develop new products. Very small companies in the countryside should also get money.