Party conference: Greens plan state restructuring and new taxes to counteract the shift to the right

Berlin. The Greens want to regain trust in politics and counter the advance of the AfD with a realignment of economic policy and far-reaching state reforms.

The party leaders Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak presented two key proposals for the federal party conference in December in Berlin on Thursday. We have to get out of the mode of “just distributing the loss of wealth and instead manage to generate new wealth,” said Banaszak. The party leadership also admits mistakes from its time in government and wants to change its political style.

Brantner called for a fundamental change in the relationship between the state and business. “We don’t say what everyone has to do, but we enable those who have a plan for their life, for their company, to be able to implement it accordingly,” said Brantner.

The party wants to say goodbye to the previous control approach. “We want to move away from the classic general suspicion, the control of everything, towards risk-based control, with at the same time tougher sanctions for the black sheep.”