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Ref. CG-PR028 (2017)

Monitoring visit by the Congress to the Principality of Liechtenstein

Strasbourg, 2 June 2017 - A delegation from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe will carry out a monitoring visit to the Principality of Liechtenstein from 6 to 7 June 2017. Co-rapporteurs on local democracy, Mr Artur Torres Pereira (Portugal, EPP-CCE) et Ms Marie Kaufmann (Czech Republic, ILDG), will examine the situation on local democracy in the light of the provisions of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, ratified by the Principality in 1988.

High level meetings are scheduled, in particular with Mr Adrian Hasler, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, Minister of General Government Affairs and Finance and Ms Dominique Gantenbein, Minister of Home Affairs, Education and Environment.

The delegation will also meet with Mr Albert Frick, President of the Parliament (Landtag),  Mr Marzell Beck, President of the State Court, as well as Mr Ewald Ospelt, Mayor of Vaduz and President of Mayor's Conference of Liechtenstein, Mr Rainer Beck, Mayor of Planken, and Mr Christoph Beck, Mayor of Triesenberg.

Finally, the rapporteurs will hold discussions with the National Delegation of Liechtenstein to the Congress and representatives of the Association for Human Rights in Liechtenstein.

The Principality of Liechtenstein ratified the European Charter of Local Self Government in 1988. The countries which have ratified the Charter are bound by its provisions. The Charter requires compliance with a minimum number of rights, which form the European bedrock of local self-government. The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities makes sure that these principles are observed.

§  Programme

Contacts:
Svitlana PEREVERTEN, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Co-secretary to the Monitoring Committee, email: [email protected]

Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

Planning, Coordination and institutional Communication Unit

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The Congress has two chambers, the Chamber of Local Authorities and the Chamber of Regions. It brings together 324 full and 324 substitute members representing more than 200 000 European territorial communities.

President of the Congress: Gudrun Mosler-Törnström (Austria, SOC), President of the Chamber of Local Authorities: Anders Knape (Sweden, EPP/CCE), President of the Chamber of Regions: Gunn Marit Helgesen (Norway, EPP-CCE)

Political Groups: Socialist Group (SOC), Group of the European People’s Party (EPP/CCE), Independent and Liberal Democrat Group (ILDG), European Conservatives & Reformists Group  (ECR)