What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on the economy?

The CDU wants more industrial value creation in the state and relies on the surplus of renewable electricity as a locational advantage. Selected sectors are to be strengthened as clusters through state programs and together with universities.

The CDU wants more industry in the state. This industry should not harm the climate. Schleswig-Holstein has a lot of wind power. New factories should use this power. The state should give special support to certain industries.

The CDU wants to support shipyards and the maritime industry and give them planning certainty. It calls on the federal government to extend the protection of key technologies in naval shipbuilding to partial contract awards, so that contracts need not be tendered across Europe.

The CDU wants to help the shipyards in the state. Shipyards build ships. Orders for navy ships should go to local companies where possible. The shipyards should also build clean ships. They should also be able to remove old munitions from the sea.

The CDU wants to use the Fehmarnbelt fixed link and the Jutland route along the A7 highway to create new economic areas. The state is to make commercial land available there and actively court companies.

Soon there will be a tunnel to Denmark. The CDU wants new companies to settle along this route. The same goes for the route along the A7 highway. The state should promote itself as a place for business. A database should show free land for companies.

The CDU rejects additional state-level rules for businesses that go beyond national, European, or international standards. Permits are to be issued faster and administrative requirements cut.

The CDU wants no extra rules for companies only in Schleswig-Holstein. The rules of Germany and the EU should be enough. Permits should come faster. Offices should use their leeway to help small companies.

The CDU wants to eliminate competitive differences between brick-and-mortar retail and online retail. Its reasoning is that large online platforms on average bear a markedly lower burden of taxes and levies.

Shops in town struggle against big online sellers. The CDU says online sellers often pay less in taxes and fees. That should change. The same conditions should apply to both.

The CDU wants to continue the Meistergründungsprämie (start-up bonus for master craftsmen), fund master craftsman training, and make business successions easier. Municipal companies should not create additional competition for the skilled trades.

The CDU wants to help the skilled trades. Master craftsmen will keep getting money when they start or take over a business. Training to become a master craftsman should also get support. Companies owned by towns should not become new rivals for the trades.

The CDU wants to keep and expand the existing support facilities for founders. It will examine a central start-up competence center, and every university is to get at least one start-up adviser. Sector-specific accelerators are to be set up at university locations.

The CDU wants to help people who start a company. One central place should show all the help on offer. The CDU is checking whether to set it up. Every university should get at least one adviser for founders. Children should already learn about starting a business at school.

The CDU wants to cut red tape for new businesses and mobilize more private capital for start-ups. A patent fund is meant to help protect inventions from universities early on and increase the number of usable patents.

The CDU wants to make starting a company easier. There should be less paperwork. Experienced business owners should give money to young companies. A new fund should help inventors. It lets them protect their inventions with patents.

The CDU wants to link science and business more closely so that research results turn into products and services faster. An innovation agency is to be set up for this purpose. Companies and other private institutions are to be able to contribute to the financing of universities.

The CDU wants research and companies to work more closely together. Research should turn into new products faster. There should be an innovation agency for this. Companies should also be able to give money to universities.

The CDU wants to strengthen knowledge and technology transfer between universities and companies. Companies are to be able to contribute to university funding. So-called hub structures are meant to enable cooperation in further research fields.

The CDU wants universities and companies to work together more. Companies should be able to give money to universities. There should be shared centers for research. Art schools and creative companies should also work together more closely.

The CDU wants to guarantee the continued existence of all commercially used ports in the state and develop them further. Shipping is to become more sustainable, for example through more shore power and cheaper berths for low-emission ships. The port development plan is to be updated.

The CDU wants to keep all ports that matter for the economy. Ships in port should use power from land more often. Cleaner ships should pay less for a berth. The CDU also supports cruise ships.

The CDU wants to update the state's tourism strategy together with associations, municipalities and businesses. New funding is to strengthen tourism in inland areas. Youth tourism, angling tourism and accessible tourism are to be added to the strategy.

The CDU wants to strengthen tourism in the state. Places away from the coast should also get more guests. There should be new funding for this. Beaches should also be reachable for people who have trouble walking.

The CDU wants to keep the current Bäderregelung (resort rule) for places with heavy tourism. The rule lets shops there open on Sundays as well. The party sees no need for changes.

In vacation towns, shops may also open on Sundays. This is called the resort rule. The CDU wants to keep this rule as it is. It does not want to change anything.

The CDU wants to keep expanding sustainable tourism and health tourism in Schleswig-Holstein. This includes making full use of the summer vacation window, EU funding for tourism, and keeping the Bäderregelung (special Sunday shopping rules for resort towns).

The CDU wants to strengthen tourism in the state. Vacations should be kind to the environment. Health vacations should also grow. Summer school breaks in Germany should be spread over 90 days. The Bäderregelung should stay. This rule lets shops in resort towns open on Sundays.

The CDU wants to overhaul and simplify planning and permitting procedures at state and federal level. In the program's view, long planning periods hold back innovation and put climate targets at risk.

Big building projects often take a very long time. The CDU wants to make planning faster. Procedures should become simpler and digital. This should also help protect the climate.

The CDU wants to make laws and regulations clearer and reduce bureaucracy. Those affected are to be involved earlier when rules are drafted, and regulations are generally to be time-limited.

The CDU wants less red tape. Red tape means many rules and forms. People affected should have a say early on new laws. Many regulations should apply only for a set time.

The CDU wants to work out a regional innovation strategy with Hamburg that brings overlapping initiatives together. Research and business settlement around the large research facilities XFEL and DESY are to be promoted. The party intends to take up the recommendations of an OECD report on the metropolitan region.

Schleswig-Holstein should work even more closely with Hamburg. Both states should make a shared plan for new ideas and research. Companies should settle near large research sites. Both also want to advertise tourism together.

The CDU wants to make town and village centers more attractive by turning vacant commercial space into housing or social facilities. A state program is to help retailers set up regional online shops.

The CDU wants livelier town centers. Empty shops should become homes or daycare centers. Local stores should get help with online shops. Towns should use land more carefully.

The CDU wants economically weaker regions in Schleswig-Holstein to benefit more from funding programs. A new competence center is to help municipalities obtain federal money. Co-financing shares in funding programs should depend on the financial strength of states and municipalities.

Some regions in the state are economically weak. The CDU wants to help them more. A new office will help towns apply for funding. Poorer states and towns should have to add less of their own money.

The CDU wants everything to be reachable from the village, either on site or digitally. To that end, village shops, country inns, multi-purpose community buildings, and the MarktTreff concept are to be supported and regional value creation strengthened.

People in villages should be able to get what they need. The CDU wants to keep village shops and country inns. Where they are gone, there should be buildings with several uses. Pickup stations for online orders should help too.

The FDP wants to make it easier to launch companies out of universities and to set up a patent fund. It also wants to improve knowledge and technology transfer and the support of talent.

New companies should grow more easily out of universities. The FDP wants better rules and more work with businesses. There should be a fund for patents. A patent protects an invention.

The FDP wants to make Schleswig-Holstein the most small-business-friendly state in Germany, with good training, less red tape, and upgraded infrastructure. Starting a business and spinning off companies from universities are to become easier. It expects the federal government to cut red tape and improve financing for startups.

The FDP wants to strengthen small and mid-sized companies. They should have less paperwork. It should be easier to start a company. Ideas from research should turn into new companies faster.

The FDP wants to continue the state's strategy for attracting businesses and give the state business development agency WT.SH better permanent resources. The aim is to bring in companies, especially from abroad, in a more targeted way.

The FDP wants more companies to come to Schleswig-Holstein. The state agency that helps businesses should get more resources. Companies from other countries are a main target. Small and mid-sized firms should also have good conditions.

The FDP wants to put the skilled trades at the center of its economic policy and keep the bonus for master craftspeople who start a business. Red tape is to be cut and vocational training strengthened.

The FDP wants to help the skilled trades. Master craftspeople who start a business should keep getting a bonus. There should be less paperwork. Job training should get better.

The FDP wants to preserve and expand the state's industrial base. The "Bündnis für Industrie.SH" (industry alliance) is to continue, and new industrial sites are to be made easier through fewer administrative hurdles and adjusted funding tools.

The FDP wants to strengthen industry in the state. Industry offers many well-paid jobs. New factories should be able to set up more easily. For that, there should be fewer hurdles at government offices.

The FDP wants to expand state support for start-ups and make it possible to found a company entirely online. The platform sees new businesses as a driver of growth and prosperity.

The FDP wants to help people who start a company. The state should give young companies more support. People should be able to start a company fully online. Schools and universities should also teach about starting a business.

The FDP wants to put the expansion and modernization of infrastructure at the center of its economic policy and of public investment. Funding is to go primarily to infrastructure rather than to individual companies, and fiber-optic internet is to be available almost everywhere in the state by 2025.

The FDP wants to invest mainly in roads, rail, bike paths and fast internet. Public funding should go there rather than to single companies. By 2025, fiber-optic internet should be almost everywhere. Fiber-optic is a very fast internet cable.

The FDP wants state-level spatial planning that responds quickly to new developments and allows easy deviations from plans. Rules on housing development, land take and retail in the state development plan are to be reviewed and loosened.

The state plans where building is allowed. The FDP wants to relax these rules. Towns should find it easier to get land for homes and businesses. Plans should be quicker to change.

The FDP wants to shape the change in city centers as shopping habits and working life shift. It relies on housing in city centers, new business and restaurant concepts, and more flexible opening hours.

City centers are changing. Many people now shop online. The FDP wants more people to live in city centers. Shops should be freer to decide when they open.

The FDP wants to develop tourism together with the industry and residents and reach first place nationwide in customer satisfaction. To this end it plans a tourism competence center, larger marketing budgets and continued investment in destinations.

Tourism is very important for the state. The FDP wants to develop it further. A new center should advise and connect businesses. Local people should benefit too.

The FDP wants to make Schleswig-Holstein a year-round destination, both on the coast and inland. This is meant to create year-round jobs and make work in restaurants and hotels more attractive.

Tourists should come all year round. Then hotel and restaurant staff have work all year. The FDP also wants to support affordable homes near workplaces. This should make more people want to work in the industry.

The FDP wants existing campsites and RV sites to be able to expand and new ones to be designated more easily. The state nature conservation act is to be amended so that very small campsites on farms can be permitted again.

The FDP wants more places for tents and RVs. Small campsites on farms should be allowed again. To do this, the FDP wants to change a state nature protection law.

The FDP wants to shape the legal framework for the gambling market so that legal offerings are more attractive than illegal ones. It would check any additional requirements for whether they push players into the illegal market, while strengthening player protection and addiction counseling.

The FDP wants people to gamble with legal providers. So legal gambling should stay attractive. The FDP wants to check new rules carefully. Protection for players should get better. Counseling for gambling addiction should also be strengthened.

The Greens want to review all state funding programs and align them with topics such as climate protection, digitalization and resource conservation. The state is also to buy in an environmentally friendly way, and COVID aid is to continue as needed.

The state gives funding money to companies. The Greens want this money to go mainly to climate protection and digital projects. The state itself should buy eco-friendly goods. Companies in trouble should keep getting COVID aid.

The Greens want the state to keep co-financing EU funding programs. The money is to go more strongly to projects that serve climate protection and the energy transition. State funding for projects that run counter to climate and sustainability goals is to end.

Schleswig-Holstein gets money from the EU and the federal government. The Greens want to keep paying the state's share. More of the money should go to climate protection. Projects that harm the climate should get no funding.

The Greens want Schleswig-Holstein to remain one of Germany's leading states for new businesses. Access to funding is to become easier, and programs and networks for founders are to grow. The path from university to starting a company is also to be made easier.

The Greens want to help people who start a company. Getting funding should be easier. There should be more programs and networks for founders. Universities should also offer more help for new companies.

The Greens want to fund and carry out the state's strategy for social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Existing funding programs are to be opened to social enterprises. The platform sees such business models as a chance to tackle major social changes and create good jobs.

Some companies mainly want to solve problems in society. The Greens want to support these companies. They should be able to get money from state programs. A new academy and a new agency are to help.

The Greens want to make Schleswig-Holstein an important location for developing video games. A dedicated funding framework is to be created for this. The cultural and creative industries are to be strengthened through a participatory process.

The Greens want to support companies that make video games. There should be a special funding program for them. Cultural and creative businesses should also become stronger. The people affected should have a say.

The Greens give businesses an investment pledge for public infrastructure. New companies are to be able to settle in the state without sealing much additional land. To that end, municipalities are to get support for recycling previously used land.

The Greens want to keep spending on rail, roads and fast internet. Universities and hospitals are to be renovated too. New companies should use old sites where possible. That way less new land gets built on.

The Greens want economic policy to focus more on small companies and to support them with innovation and change. Help is planned for research and development, digitalization and business succession. Industry and cluster strategies are to be realigned.

Schleswig-Holstein has many small and mid-sized companies. The Greens want to help them with new ideas and digital tools. Many companies need someone to take over from the owner. A campaign is planned for this.

The Greens want to close the skilled-worker gap in the skilled trades, arguing that climate protection can only succeed with them. A program for climate-protection workers and a training drive are planned. Access to trade occupations is to become easier for more groups and for career changers.

The skilled trades need more trained workers. The Greens say climate protection will not work without them. So there is to be a program for training and retraining. More women and queer people should also work in the trades.

The Greens want to develop Schleswig-Holstein as a green industrial location and rewrite the state's industrial strategy for that purpose. The platform sees the supply of renewable energy as a local advantage. New industrial settlements are to be supported with higher loan guarantees and infrastructure.

Schleswig-Holstein has a lot of power from wind and sun. The Greens want to use this to attract more industry. The state is to rewrite its plan for industry. New companies should get help, such as rail lines and fast internet.

The Greens want to make Schleswig-Holstein the world's leading innovation hub for zero-emission shipping. To that end, innovation is to be supported together with researchers and the renewable energy sector. Shipyards are to be strengthened through more public contracts.

In the future, ships should no longer give off exhaust. The Greens want Schleswig-Holstein to lead in this field. They want to support new technology. Shipyards in the state should also get more orders.

For the Greens, sustainable business means something other than growth. The goal of economic policy and business support is to be sustainable prosperity for everyone in the state. They also want to examine where post-growth economic approaches are suitable.

The Greens say the economy is about more than growth. Everyone in the state should be able to live well in the long run. That is to be the goal of economic policy. The Greens want to check where the economy can work well without growth.

The Greens welcome the federal Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (supply chain due diligence act) but consider it insufficient. They want to push for more effective rules at the federal and EU levels.

Companies buy goods and parts in many countries. A law requires them to watch for fair conditions. The Greens say this law is not enough. They want stricter rules in Germany and in the EU.

The Greens see tourism as a key pillar of the state's economy and want to realign its strategy with the industry around sustainability. They regard intact nature and landscape as the basis of future tourism.

Many people vacation in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want vacations to be gentle on nature. Motor boats should run on electricity. Workers in hotels and restaurants should get fair pay.

The Greens want to help municipalities draw up plans that assess how much tourism a place can carry. Together with municipalities, they also want to steer day-trip traffic better so that towns and sensitive natural areas are not overwhelmed.

Many towns on the coast are very crowded. The Greens want to help towns plan. Towns should check how much tourism they can handle. Traffic should also be guided better.

The Greens want to draw up a long-term state strategy for inclusive tourism with the involvement of advocacy groups. Natural and cultural sites should be as barrier-free as possible. The state should also reach out more deliberately to queer travelers.

All people should be able to vacation in Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want a long-term plan for this. Paths to the beach should have no barriers. The state should also invite more queer guests.

The Greens want to change the state's procurement law so that public contracts minimize negative impacts and take costs over the full life cycle into account. The state is to lead on due diligence obligations in supply chains.

The state buys many things and awards contracts. The Greens want new rules for this. The state should look at the environment and fair work. It should also look at costs over the whole time of use.

The Greens want to tie public contracts to paying wages set by collective agreements or wages modeled on them. Climate impact and human rights are to be minimum standards for every public contract. An ombuds office would follow up on reports of violations.

The state and towns give contracts to companies. The Greens want new rules for this. Companies should pay wages set by union agreements. They should respect the climate and human rights. A new office should check for rule-breaking.

The SPD wants to strengthen the state as an industrial location and make its industry climate-neutral rather than shifting production abroad. A transformation council of state government, business and unions would guide the change. A climate investment company would let the state co-invest directly.

The SPD wants to keep industry in the state. Factories should stop harming the climate. Government, companies and unions should plan this together. The state should also be able to put its own money into climate projects.

The SPD wants a state program to attract apprentices to the skilled trades and to invest in their training facilities. In the platform's view, there are too few tradespeople for the energy retrofit of buildings. An integration drive is also meant to bring more skilled workers to the state.

Many homes need to be rebuilt to protect the climate. There are too few tradespeople for that. The SPD wants to get more young people into trade apprenticeships. People from other countries should also work in the trades.

The SPD wants to start a new state development strategy right after taking office and design a mission-oriented economic policy with all stakeholders. The guiding idea is a social and ecological market economy in which the state invests alongside companies.

The SPD wants a new plan for the state's economy. The state and companies should invest together. The economy should be social and green. Permits should come faster. Industry should also get stronger.

The SPD wants to connect small and mid-sized companies more closely with universities. This is meant to help them recruit young talent and keep up with digitalization and technological change, since many have no research department of their own.

Many small companies have no research of their own. The SPD wants to bring them together with universities. This also helps companies find young skilled workers. Universities of applied sciences should get more resources for this.

The SPD wants to encourage more people to start businesses, from schools and universities to the skilled trades. Plans include scholarships, advice, venture capital and targeted support for women founders.

The SPD wants more people to start a company. The topic should already come up in school. Students should get scholarships for it. Women should get special support. Researchers should get help with patents.

The SPD wants to work more closely with Hamburg, especially on research, marketing the region, energy and schools. The stated reason is that people's daily lives do not stop at the state border.

The SPD wants to work more with Hamburg. Both states should promote the region together. Researchers and companies should work together more closely. There should also be more joint work on schools and energy.

The SPD wants to keep the state's shipyards and their suppliers and to give more funding to alternative ship propulsion. Government support should go only to companies that respect worker codetermination and collective agreements.

The SPD wants to keep the shipyards in the state. Shipyards build ships. The SPD wants to fund new, clean engines for ships. Only companies with union wage deals and worker say should get state money.

The SPD wants to digitize the state's ports and make them climate-neutral. It plans a sustainability strategy with port operators and wants to secure maritime training and degree programs.

The SPD wants to modernize the state's ports. The ports should work digitally. They should no longer harm the climate. Ships in port should use power from land. Training for sea-related jobs should stay.

The SPD wants to tackle the shortage of skilled workers in hotels, restaurants and leisure businesses. Good pay, childcare and a funding program for staff housing in tourist towns are meant to help.

Hotels and restaurants cannot find enough staff. The SPD wants to change that. Workers should get good pay. There should be money for staff homes in vacation towns. Good childcare should help too.

The SPD wants vacations in Schleswig-Holstein to happen all year and focuses on quality and protecting nature. It plans more inland and bicycle tourism, digital services, accessibility and steering of visitor flows.

The SPD wants to promote vacations in the state all year. Tourism should protect nature. Places away from the coast should get more guests. There should be better services for cycling and fewer barriers for everyone. Digital tools should spread visitors out better.

The SSW wants to implement the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and sees the Economy for the Common Good as an approach that can help. In the party's view, economic activity should focus on the well-being of people and the environment and not on profit alone.

The United Nations has 17 goals for a better world. The SSW wants to reach these goals. Business should not only look at profit. It should also be good for people and nature.

The SSW wants to stop further privatization of basic services. County hospitals and savings banks should stay public, and energy supply should return to public ownership where possible.

Power, water, heat, buses and trash pickup matter to everyone. The SSW wants the state to stay in charge of them. Private companies should not take over these tasks. County hospitals and savings banks should also stay public.

The SSW wants regional structural aid to continue beyond 2027 and calls for additional federal money for this purpose. Research and development as well as the maritime economy, including shipyards, should receive more support.

Weaker regions get money from the EU. This help is safe until 2027. The SSW wants it to go on after that. The federal government should also give its own money. Research and shipbuilding in the state should get more help.

The SSW wants closer cooperation with Hamburg and the other northern German states, for example on spatial planning, business development, transportation, education and ports. This is meant to make the metropolitan region more competitive and ease daily life in the area around Hamburg.

Schleswig-Holstein should work more with Hamburg. This covers transportation, schools, ports and planning. Children should be able to attend a school in the other state easily. Both states should jointly seek money for roads and rail.

The SSW wants to support small and medium-sized businesses, including through less red tape and fair competitive conditions. It also backs a sustainable industrial policy, more knowledge transfer from research, and an active shipyard policy.

The SSW wants to help small and mid-sized companies. They should have less paperwork. Researchers and companies should work together more closely. Shipyards should get help too. Shipyards are places where ships are built.

The SSW wants to continue the special tourism funding program beyond 2025. Funding is to focus on sustainability, energy-efficient infrastructure and better access to inland destinations.

The state gives money for tourism. The SSW wants this to continue after 2025. Tourism should be kind to the environment. Inland vacation spots should be easier to reach by bus and train.

The SSW wants stricter legal requirements for companies that produce worldwide and sell in domestic markets. It considers the existing Supply Chain Act insufficient. For public contracts, companies are to commit to human rights and environmental standards.

Many companies make goods in other countries. The SSW wants stricter rules for them. Companies should respect human rights and protect the environment. The SSW says today's law is not enough. The government should also check this when it buys things.