The Greens demand that civil protection in Germany be further strengthened.
Leon Eckert, member of the Bundestag, and Katharina Schulze, leader of the Bavarian Greens parliamentary group, have drawn up a ten-point plan for this.
The core of this is the expansion of sirens.
"Extensive financial resources are required to increase resilience in order to bring the long-neglected warning infrastructure up to a sustainable level," says the paper, which the German Press Agency first reported on.
Helen Bubrowski
Political correspondent in Berlin.
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The federal government has launched a siren funding program for which 88 million euros have been earmarked.
In June, the conference of interior ministers called for this sum to be doubled.
In addition to financial aid, the Greens are also concerned with standardizing the signals for warning, all-clear, tests and the date of tests.
Sirens should therefore no longer be used to alert the fire brigade, which is still common in some places.
Civil protection officials are concerned that many sirens are still dependent on electricity and have been calling for modern sirens with emergency power for some time.
This is also where Eckert and Schulze come in.
Because power can go out during a natural disaster or as a result of a hacker attack, they are calling for future warning devices to be designed to be energy efficient and remain functional in the event of low power availability or a total failure.
The Greens are also calling for a civil protection day.
This point coincides with the plans of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD).
In July, she presented a concept for restarting civil protection.
Among other things, there should be a civil protection day from 2023, which should not only promote government measures, but also individual precautions.