Community, Cohesion and Democracy

Our policy on community is focused on the core tasks of modern social policy: strengthening pluralist democracy, enabling equivalent living conditions and improving social cohesion and integration.
We are committed to promoting social cohesion and social consensus and to understanding and integrating individuals and all societal groups and institutions, such as the churches and religious communities, the Jewish community, national and German minorities, as well as immigrants of every nationality and country of origin.
For this to succeed everywhere, our policy to promote equivalent living conditions takes into account people throughout Germany, particularly communities in rural and peripheral areas, and initiates improvements. We also identify demographic changes in the structure of the population and develop measures to address these changes.
Our democracy is strong when people are actively involved in shaping it and stand up for their values. Extremism, antisemitism and hostility towards democracy are attacks on our open society and our free and democratic constitutional system. We are taking decisive action to repel these attacks. We are working with civil society to develop strategies and measures to prevent every form of extremism. We are also taking comprehensive and robust action to fight the threat posed by disinformation. We counter lies and fake news with facts and strengthen the resilience of society as a whole, for example through more civic education.