Overview
- The 12-year program, described as the largest in NRW’s history, targets childcare, schools, universities, roads, bridges, hospitals and sports facilities.
- Wüst highlighted the dilapidated Haldenwangschule pool in Dorsten—where the speech was recorded—as a renovation to be carried out under the plan.
- He said education remains the top spend, citing about 11,000 additional school staff hired over the past three and a half years.
- The CDU–Green government pledged faster permitting, expanded renewables and backing for investment to sustain jobs, prosperity and reliable energy.
- On security, Wüst called for more police and said NRW’s answer to crime and terror is a defensible rule of law, pairing the message with an appeal to cohesion and reconciliation.