What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on the economy?

The AfD wants the state's economic policy to center on small and mid-sized companies rather than subsidies for large foreign corporations. Disadvantages of the location are to be removed and new advantages created. The party says this would start a re-industrialization.

The AfD wants to help small and mid-sized companies in the state. It does not want to give money to big foreign corporations. The state should become a better place for business. Fewer companies should go bankrupt or leave. More new companies should start.

The AfD wants to examine whether special economic zones with defined boundaries can be set up in structurally weak parts of Saxony-Anhalt. It points to other countries that, in its account, achieve good economic results with them.

The AfD wants to look into special economic zones. These are areas with special rules for companies. They would be in regions with a weak economy. The AfD says other countries do well with them.

The AfD wants to make training for the Meister (master craftsman) qualification free of charge and introduce a bonus graded by age. The goal is for more tradespeople to earn the qualification and later take over businesses.

The AfD wants master craftsman training to cost nothing. There would also be a bonus. Young master craftsmen would get the most money. This way more tradespeople should become masters. Later they should take over businesses.

The AfD wants to support small and medium-sized businesses that invest in technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence. This is meant to modernize Saxony-Anhalt as a business location.

The AfD wants to help small and medium-sized companies. The companies should invest in modern technology. That includes digital tools and artificial intelligence. This should make the state's economy more modern.

The AfD wants to create a quality label for products from Saxony-Anhalt and back it with a marketing campaign. It is meant to highlight the variety of local products.

The AfD wants a label for products from Saxony-Anhalt. A label is a mark on the product. It shows where the product comes from. Companies can use it if they want. There would also be advertising for it.

The AfD wants to develop a new tourism strategy as part of a campaign called #deutschdenken ("think German"). Tourism is meant to grow as an economic factor for the largely rural state and make greater use of its culture and history.

The AfD wants more tourists to come to Saxony-Anhalt. There would be a new plan for this. The plan is part of a campaign called #deutschdenken. The state's culture and history should play a big role. Tourism should bring jobs and income.

The BSW wants public money to go to education, transport, energy supply and digitalization rather than to armaments. Small and medium-sized businesses are to be strengthened. In the party's view, arms do not create prosperity, and prosperity depends on peace.

The BSW wants to spend money differently. It should go to schools, roads, energy and the internet. Less money should go to weapons. Small and medium-sized companies should get more support.

The BSW wants to give arms companies no public money and to prevent civilian firms from switching to war production. A public fund is to pay for converting arms production to civilian manufacturing. Arms exports are to be controlled more strictly and the industry's windfall profits skimmed off.

Weapons companies should get no money from the state. Ordinary firms should not build weapons. A fund should help weapons firms switch to other products. The BSW wants to collect very high profits from weapons.

A committee of inquiry is to examine the planned Intel plant. In the BSW's view, decisions were opaque and cost risks unclear; large projects should face stronger parliamentary oversight in the future.

The state parliament should look into the Intel project. The BSW says the decisions were not open enough. A great deal of money was involved. Parliament should check big projects more closely.

The BSW wants to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to raise capital. Reserves and reinvested profits would get more favorable tax treatment, loans would be simpler to obtain, and investment would be encouraged through depreciation rules and funding programs.

Small and mid-sized companies often struggle to get money. The BSW wants to change that. Companies should pay less tax on profits they put back into the business. Loans should be easier and faster to get.

The BSW wants to give more support to business start-ups and reduce bureaucratic obstacles. Funding conditions for research and innovation should become simpler, more transparent and more reliable.

The BSW wants to help people who start a company. Applications should be simpler. There should be more advice. Companies should get easier access to knowledge and new technology.

The BSW wants to preserve the chemical industry in Saxony-Anhalt and support its transformation. This includes attracting recycling companies to the chemical parks, affordable energy, faster permits and a secure supply of oil and gas.

Saxony-Anhalt has many chemical plants. The BSW wants to keep them. For that, energy should be cheap and permits should come faster. The plants should have a secure supply of oil and gas.

The BSW wants to keep the lithium deposits in the Altmark region under public control as a strategic resource. Profits should flow into the region through a public holding company, and extraction should be gentle on the environment and water.

There is a lot of lithium in the Altmark region. It is a raw material for batteries. The BSW wants the lithium to belong to the state. The profits should stay in the region. Extraction should protect water and soil.

The BSW wants to bring core areas of essential public services back under public or cooperative ownership. The party rejects further privatization of municipal property.

The BSW wants important services back in public hands. These include water, energy, waste, housing, buses and trains. Private companies should not make a profit from them. Towns should stop selling their property.

The BSW wants tax relief for small and mid-sized businesses and an easier start for founders. Doctors and teachers are to receive incentives for settling in rural areas. According to the platform, the goal is to keep young people in the region.

The BSW wants to support small businesses in the state. They should pay less tax when they modernize. Doctors and teachers should get help when they move to rural areas. For example, when buying a house. Young people should stay in the state.

The CDU wants to make Saxony-Anhalt one of the five most attractive locations in Europe for companies setting up new sites. To get there, it plans to build on existing strengths such as the central location, available industrial land and the energy supply.

The CDU wants more companies to come to Saxony-Anhalt. The state should be among the five best regions in Europe. The CDU wants to invest in roads and industrial land. Companies should be able to rely on stable rules.

The CDU wants to achieve higher wages through a stronger economy rather than through government mandates or redistribution. It commits to the social market economy and wants to defend and further develop it.

The CDU wants people to earn good wages. For that, companies in the state should become stronger. The government should not set wages. The CDU wants to keep the social market economy. That is a free economy with social protection.

The CDU wants to turn Saxony-Anhalt into a chemical and pharmaceutical hub that reduces Europe's dependence on supplies from other parts of the world. Existing plants are to be kept and new ones attracted, especially in strategically important fields.

The CDU wants more chemical and pharma companies in the state. Europe should make important substances itself. Then Europe depends less on other countries. Permits should come faster. The state also wants to use EU money.

The CDU wants to strengthen small and mid-sized businesses, value startup culture and give targeted support to young entrepreneurs. It puts particular weight on business succession so that firms do not close when their owners retire.

The CDU wants to strengthen small and mid-sized companies. Many owners will retire soon. Then the company needs someone to take over. The CDU wants to help with that. Young business owners should also get help.

The CDU wants the state to allow no new requirements or reporting duties for businesses for five years. Levies and fees should also not rise during that time where possible. The program argues that the economy needs relief from many bureaucratic obstacles.

The CDU does not want to add burdens on companies for five years. The state should make no new requirements. Fees for companies should not go up where possible. For each new rule, an old rule should go.

The CDU wants to fill the High-Tech Park Sachsen-Anhalt with high-tech companies and suppliers within five years. Together with other priority sites and completed highways, this is meant to create growth in all parts of the state.

The CDU wants to expand the High-Tech Park. Modern technology companies should settle there. This should happen within five years. The A14 and A143 highways should also be finished. Then new companies can come to the north as well.

The CDU wants to offer dependable conditions to all parts of the economy and keep support open to every sector and technology. It relies on continuity and on dialogue with companies, chambers, associations and trade unions.

The CDU wants to support all companies in the state. Support should be open to every sector. The state helps with investments and new ideas. Small companies get help with going digital. The CDU wants to talk with companies and unions about this.

The CDU wants to relieve companies of administrative work and make public procurement simpler, faster and digital. Small and mid-sized firms in particular are to get easier access to public contracts.

The CDU wants less paperwork for companies. Public contracts should be awarded more simply. This should be faster and digital. Small companies should get government contracts more easily.

The CDU wants to update the state's tourism strategy and position Saxony-Anhalt as a destination for cultural travel and nature. Tourism funding is to be kept and expanded, funding rules simplified, and digital services extended.

The CDU wants more visitors to come to Saxony-Anhalt. The state should be known for culture and nature. Funding for tourism should stay and grow. The rules for getting funding should be simpler. Online booking and information should get better.

The CDU wants to invest statewide in infrastructure for visitors, such as bike paths, public transit to popular destinations, digital networks, and visitor guidance. Tourist bike routes like the Elbe Cycle Route are to be used and promoted more.

The CDU wants to spend money on things for visitors across the state. This includes bike paths, buses and trains to popular places, and good internet. Guests should be able to travel easily and safely. The bike route along the Elbe river should become even better known.

The Greens want to link business development funding to climate protection and launch a “GreenInvest” program for sustainable companies. They also want lower energy prices for businesses and stronger regional and cooperative forms of business.

The Greens want to support companies that protect the climate. There should be a new funding program for this. Electricity should get cheaper for companies. Cooperatives should also get help. These are companies owned jointly by their members.

The Greens want to raise the standing of the skilled trades and treat vocational and academic education equally. They call for a free Meister (master craftsperson) title, a start-up bonus for new masters and more support for business successions.

The Greens want to strengthen the skilled trades. The master craftsperson title should cost nothing. Masters who start a company should get money. Women in the trades should get more help.

The Greens want nature-based tourism that puts quality before quantity and secures regional value creation and good working conditions. To that end, the tourism master plan is to be developed further and cycling, hiking and water tourism strengthened.

The Greens want more vacations in nature and at cultural sites. Quality matters more to them than many guests. The state should take care of important bike routes itself. Vacations on the water should also get easier.

The Left wants to set up an economic fund that supports companies in restructuring through long-term loans or in exchange for equity stakes. The money would be tied to collective bargaining coverage, location guarantees, and public-interest production. The platform aims to replace subsidies with investments and pursue an active industrial policy.

The Left wants to create a fund for the economy. The fund gives companies loans or buys a share in them. In return, companies must pay union-agreed wages and stay in the region. Workers should be allowed to take over companies in crisis.

The Left wants to support industry's shift to climate-neutral production with a state program. Small and medium-sized companies would get grants and interest-free loans. The transition is to be steered democratically and backed by social protections.

The Left wants a funding program for industry. Small and mid-sized companies get money for climate protection. They also get loans without interest. No one should lose their job in the change without help.

The Left wants to shift Saxony-Anhalt's auto industry, with about 30,000 workers, toward sustainable production. Companies would get support for investment and innovation, and key suppliers would get a rescue fund.

About 30,000 people work in the car industry in the state. The Left wants to help these companies change. They should make more for electric cars and rail. Important supplier companies should get help in a crisis.

The Left wants to support the chemical and basic materials industry in moving to climate-neutral processes. Energy and CO₂ costs would be lowered during the transition, subject to conditions. A statewide hydrogen network would be built, in public ownership if needed.

The chemical industry is very important for Saxony-Anhalt. The Left wants to help it change. Energy should cost these companies less during that time. In return, they must protect jobs and sites. The state should build a hydrogen network.

The Left wants to support the skilled trades with a state program called "Handwerk 2035." Master craftsman training would become free, and public contracts would go to local businesses. The platform sees the trades as key to the social and ecological transition.

The Left wants a program to support skilled trade businesses. Training to become a master craftsman should be free. Students should do required internships. The state should give contracts to businesses from the region.

The Left wants to support engineering companies that switch to new products such as battery storage or heat pumps. Investment in modern manufacturing would be subsidized directly, and supply chains secured regionally and within Europe.

Machine building has a long history in the state. The Left wants to support companies that make new things. For example, battery storage or heat pumps. Important parts should come from the region or from Europe.

The Left wants to use state funds to make tourism and hospitality more resilient. Plans include a program for heat and flood protection, investment aid for restaurants, and tying subsidies to local providers and social standards.

The Left wants to support tourism and restaurants. A program should protect against heat and floods. Restaurants get money for new equipment and energy-saving technology. Buses and trains should reach tourist places more easily.

The SPD wants to relieve skilled trades, small businesses and mid-sized companies of bureaucracy. New laws would be checked for added reporting duties, and documentation requirements would be simplified or dropped.

The SPD wants less paperwork for businesses. New laws should be checked first. They should not make businesses write extra reports. Applying for state funding should also get easier.

The SPD wants an active industrial policy that backs renewable energy, climate-friendly production, the circular economy and new technologies. Existing industries would get help modernizing, and a climate start-up grant (Klimagründungsgeld) is meant to attract new ones.

The SPD wants to keep industry strong in the state. Factories should work in a more climate-friendly way. The state should help them do that. A new grant should bring new companies to the state.

The SPD wants to give top priority to supporting the chemical industry in the central German chemical triangle as it moves to climate-neutral production. A task force would review and adjust the state's policy framework every six months.

The chemical industry is very important for Saxony-Anhalt. In the future it should produce without harming the climate. The SPD wants to help it do that. A working group from politics, government offices and industry should meet twice a year.

The SPD wants to make founding a company easier through simpler funding, including a start-up bonus. Research and business are to work together more closely so innovations reach practice faster.

The SPD wants to make it easier to start a company. Funding should be simpler to get. Young companies should get a bonus. Universities and companies should work together more closely.

The SPD wants to gear the state's tourism strategy toward sustainable, low-impact tourism. Infrastructure, bike paths and rail connections are to be secured and expanded.

The SPD wants more visitors to come to the state. Tourism should be gentle on nature. Bike paths and train connections should get better. Offers should also work well for people with disabilities.