News Digest Item
17 Jul 2017

SPD chancellor candidate presents plan for “modern Germany”

SPD

German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz has unveiled a ten-point plan for a better Germany in his quest to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel in the 24 September elections. The party’s goals include massive investment in infrastructure, including in fibre-optic connections for high-speed internet, renewable energies, research and development, schools and universities, hospitals and railways and roads. Schulz is calling for an active industrial policy and an “innovation alliance” for German industry that would help build battery cell production for electric vehicles and set up a digitisation fund to assist small and medium-sized enterprises. The candidate is also proposing policies on climate change protection.

Read Martin Schulz’s plan in German here.

Read a Reuters article on the SPD plan here.

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