Federal election 2021 – News: Greens vote on coalition talks on Sunday – Spahn: “The election result hurt physically”

In their joint paper, the SPD, Greens and FDP agreed on ten points:

1. Modern state and digital awakening
“The administration should become more agile and digital”, it says in the guiding principle for the first point of the exploratory results. The aim is to accelerate and modernize administrative, planning and approval processes. For this purpose, the competencies in the federal government are to be redistributed. In addition, the provision of rural areas is to be improved.

2. Climate protection in a socio-ecological market economy
The traffic light sees climate protection as “one of the greatest challenges of our time”. But at the same time as an opportunity for new business models and technologies. These two points are intended to reconcile the core concerns of the Greens and the FDP. The main task is to get Germany on the 1.5-degree path. There are also specific suggestions for this:

3. Respect and opportunities in the modern world of work
In the most important agreement on this point, the SPD and the Greens prevailed. The minimum wage is to be raised to 12 euros. In addition, the traffic light also wants to abolish the current basic security model (Hartz IV) and replace it with a citizen’s benefit.

4. Make social security citizen-friendly

The traffic light parties commit themselves to the pension: “We will strengthen the statutory pension and secure the minimum pension level of 48 percent. There will be no cuts in pensions and no increase in the statutory retirement age. “ In addition, there should be a grandfathering for current Riester contracts. The lump sum for savers is to be increased to 1,000 euros.

5. Opportunities for children, strong families and the best education for a lifetime
More children should be lifted out of poverty. There should also be a model for basic child benefits. Daycare centers and all-day schools want to further promote the parties and anchor children’s rights in the Basic Law.

A traffic light aims to make start-up and start-up funding less bureaucratic, and employee equity participation is to be made more attractive by increasing the tax-free allowance. Research and development spending is to be increased to 3.5 percent of GDP.

7. Offensive for affordable and sustainable building and living
A clear target is set for the construction of new apartments: 400,000 per year, 100,000 of which are publicly funded apartments. The federal states should be able to introduce a more flexible structure of the real estate transfer tax “in order to facilitate the acquisition of owner-occupied residential property”. In order to finance this, tax loopholes are to be closed in real estate acquisitions by corporations (share deals).

A traffic light wants to adapt the legal situation to the new social reality in order to enable more diversity and to take action against discrimination. To this end, nationality law, family law, the right of parentage, the transsexual law and the regulations on reproductive medicine are to be adapted.
The skilled worker immigration law should be purged and a point system should also be introduced.

9. Future investments and sustainable public finances
The traffic light promises not to burden citizens with new taxes: “We will not introduce any new taxes on assets and we will not increase taxes such as income, company or VAT.”

Private and public investments are to be expanded significantly – especially in the areas of climate protection, digitization, education and research as well as infrastructure. Nevertheless, the debt brake should continue to apply.

10. Germany’s responsibility for Europe and the world
The SPD, the Greens and the FDP are clearly in favor of strengthening the EU, with particular emphasis on the partnership with France. The European armies should work together more intensively.
In addition, the possible federal government wants to take the initiative for the following EU-wide projects: A European digital infrastructure, a common rail network, an energy infrastructure for renewable electricity and hydrogen.