The video discusses the Green Party in Germany, its history, and its current policies. The party was formed in 1980 from protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on environmental and social issues. The Greens have evolved from a radical party to a more moderate, people's party. Their 2021 election program emphasizes sustainability, with plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase digitalization, and promote eco-social transformation worldwide.
Key policies include:
1. Environmental protection: reducing emissions by 70% by 2030, increasing CO2 pricing, and promoting electric cars.
2. Digitalization: upgrading digital infrastructure, promoting digital education, and regulating large internet companies.
3. Education: increasing opportunities for all, improving teacher training, and introducing a basic child benefit.
4. Taxation: relieving low and middle-income earners, increasing taxes on high earners, and introducing a wealth tax.
5. Foreign policy: promoting eco-social transformation, fair trade, and reforming the United Nations.
The video encourages viewers to read the party's program and decide for themselves whether the policies are realistic and align with their values.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The Green Party in Germany has been in crisis four years ago but is now in a completely different situation.
2. Annalena Baerbock is the candidate for the Green Party.
3. The Green Party has been at the top in surveys over the last few months.
4. It is likely that the Green Party will be involved in the next government.
5. The Green Party was formed in 1980 by protest movements that wanted to influence politics from the outside.
6. The party's early days were marked by heated debates between the Realos and Fundis factions.
7. The Green Party is no longer committed to coalitions as it was in the past.
8. The party's 2020 program states that it wants to restructure the state socially and ecologically.
9. The Green Party's election program is divided into eight areas, with sustainability as the common thread.
10. The party wants to ban single-family homes and abolish domestic flights, but this is not entirely true.
11. The Green Party wants to make short-haul flights unattractive and promote alternative modes of transportation.
12. The party wants to adjust regulations for building houses, which could make building and renovating more expensive.
13. The Green Party wants to relieve the burden on low and normal earners and place more burdens on high earners and the rich.
14. The party wants to increase the tax allowance and the top tax rate to up to 48 percent.
15. Families with low or middle incomes should be relieved, and various benefits such as child benefit should be combined into a basic child benefit.
16. The Green Party wants to take on additional debt of 50 billion euros per year to finance its plans.
17. The party wants to invest in digitalization, including upgrading digital infrastructure and promoting digital education.
18. The Green Party wants to break up large internet companies if there is no other option.
19. The party wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2030 and implement a CO2 pricing system.
20. The Green Party wants to increase the price per ton of CO2 emissions to 60 euros by 2023.
21. The party wants to implement a plan to register only zero-emission cars from 2030 onwards.
22. The Green Party wants to introduce a maximum speed limit of 130 km/h on motorways.
23. The party wants to end the two percent target for defense spending and instead focus on eco-social transformation.
24. The Green Party wants to abolish the right of veto in the United Nations Security Council.
25. The party wants to implement a new immigration law that would stipulate quicker decision-making for asylum seekers.
26. The Green Party wants to abolish the declaration of safe countries of origin.
27. The party wants to promote equality, including a gender check for new legislative proposals and more women in international negotiations.
28. The Green Party supports the legalization of cannabis and alternative forms of nutrition.