German elections 2025: What is in the programs?

The German center-right block of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Social Christian Social Social (CSU) party unanimously voted in favor of an electoral program that promises taxes and prevent illegal migration.

  CDU / CSU wishes to reduce the income tax source and reduce taxes for 25%corporations. It promises not to reduce the pensions of old age and plan to inspire those who wish to continue running beyond the 67 -year retirement age, which allows them to win up to € 2,000 ($ 2,100) consisting of the month in the tax franchise, in addition . To your pension.

The bold concepts of the candidate for Foreign Minister, Friedrich Merz, will charge billions of euros and will be incredibly difficult to put into force if the CDU / CSU refuses to relieve the “braking debt”. Insisting the basic law of Germany, the brake limits a new debt to a maximum of 0. 35% of economic production (GDP).

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The CDU / CSU is favorable for video surveillance in public puts and the advent of automated facial popularity in stations and airports.

He needs Germany to assume more everyday jobs within NATO and spend more than 2% of GDP for defense. They appreciate the parking lot of giant weapons systems in Germany and supply Ukraine “with all mandatory diplomatic, monetary and humanitarian means. “

The CDU / CSU promises to continue supporting Israel militarily and advocates a state of two states in the Middle East.  

With respect to China, the CDU / CSU speaks of “systemic competition”.   You need to close economic relations and at the same time reduce critical economic dependencies and accentuate the coverage of critical infrastructure and applicable security technology.

The CDU / CSU will continue with the participation in the global of the global and Asia-Pacific region to compensate for the developing influence of China and Russia.

Social Democrats (SPD) must withdraw more debts to have thousands of millions of euros for mandatory investments, for example, in difficulty infrastructure. The part also focuses on tax incentives for corporations that expect to build investments.

According to your message for low -income voters, the SPD needs super wealth with assets of more than one hundred million euros that pay a wealth tax.

Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz has announced that he would build the legal minimum wage again, this time from 12 to 15 euros.

With respect to pensions, the SPD wishes to ensure a pension point of at least 48% in the long term. The part rejects pension discounts, as well as a building at the 67 -year -old retirement age.

The SPD needs paintings to accelerate asylum procedures. It also promises paintings on complete migration agreements “that open immigration to education and paintings”, in specific agreements of the company according to which countries will resume their nationals who will have to leave the country.  

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SPD foreign policy and security plans are concentrated in that of Ukraine opposite to the war of attack in Russia and the parking lot of weapons in an American media in West Germany.   The SPD needs to continue Ukraine, adding with weapons and equipment.  

The SPD is obviously for NATO and needs to spend at least 2% of the gross domestic product in defense. Its long -term objective is a “European defense union” and building a competitive European defense industry. The SPD needs to spend massively in the German army, the Bundeswehr, to modernize it “permanently. “

The SPD to follow a European policy coordinated towards China, which classifies as “partner, competitor and systemic rival”. It needs to make Germany more economically independent of China, but cooperate with global demanding situations such as climate replacement or weapons control.

In the beyond the 3 years of the government, the greens have been criticized for their weather coverage plans. Now the party has lower its requests to reduce greenhouse gases to the 2021 electoral campaign.

Greens also need to reform debt braking, introduce subsidies for electric cars and propose a new “citizen funds” to guarantee pensions. This fund will also have to nurture the state money. And they need a billionaire tax, as Robert Habeck, Vicerrector and the main candidate in an interview with the Bild tabloid said.

Regarding the immigration policy, the greens want to respect the basic asylum right, as well as foreign obligations, the Geneva Refugee Convention, the coverage of the subsidiaries and the European Convention on the Rights of Man. They oppose deportations to the regions of war and crisis.

According to its electoral manifesto, the excessive correct choice for Germany (AFD) needs Germany to leave the EU and abolish the euro. It denies that the lifestyles of the synthetic climate replace and the defenders of the status quo of new coal force plants and nuclear force plants, and recover the importation of Russian herbal gas.

AFD also needs even more strict border controls that repel the refugees who have traveled to other EU countries to pass to Germany. They need to keep asylum applicants on the border while their programs are processed.

For AFD, the internal security consultation is strongly connected to the migration policy. In this context, he calls, for example, that Americans are taken in preventive detention and decrease the age of Crook procedures from 14 to 12.

AFD to retire recently imposed knife prohibitions and opposes complete video surveillance in the public and will reject knowledge retention and online research.

AFD aims to develop the birth rate with monetary incentives and cause a demographic change in Germany through a “activating circle of relatives’ policy. ” 

As for Social Security payments: AFD needs foreign citizens only viable when they worked in Germany for at least ten years and paid social security contributions.  

Ublical spaces and knowledge retention. Instead, they argue that knowledge is only stored if there is a suspicion of a crime of significant importance.

Like the Greens, the free Democratic Party (FDP) also requires a reform of the German pension system. The party leader, Christian Lindner, campaigns for the advent of a pension on actions. FDP requests for an economic policy fundamentally were the main explanation for which for the rupture of the Coalition with SPD and the Greens in November.

Many of these requests have now given the impression in the electoral program of the party: to soften the tax burden on corporations with large energy costs and less bureaucracy.

They need to fundamentally reform social benefits by focusing on incentives to take paid work. They need to force the unemployed to take the initiative and turn to have done it. Those who do not realize get less benefits, says the FDP platform.  

The FDP rejects general surveillance in public spaces, opposes chat controls, to download filters and knowledge retention.

The Left Socialist Party wishes to introduce high taxes for the rich, adding an inheritance tax of 60% for those who have an inheritance of 3 million euros or more.

The left component also wants to increase the minimum wage to € 15 and 53% pensions (compared to 48%) of the beneficiary’s net profit.

The left component to restructure the pension system.

In the future, everyone pays a state system, adding public officials, self -employed personnel and members of Parliament. They need to reduce retirement age to 65, or even 60 for those who worked and paid contributions for at least 40 years.   

The left needs to stimulate public shipping to at least one bus and an hour -hour exercise service for rural spaces and prohibit flights that have more than 500 kilometers or five hours through exercise.

This article was first written in German.

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