22 June 2011

CONGRESS MONITORING VISIT TO GERMANY

Part I - 27 - 29 June 2011

PROGRAMME

Congress delegation:

Rapporteurs:

Ms Britt-Marie LÖVGREN                       Co-rapporteur on local democracy

Member of the Monitoring Committee of the Congress

Chamber of Local Authorities, GILD[1]

Councillor of Umea (Sweden)

Mr Ignacio SANCHEZ-AMOR                 Co-rapporteur on regional democracy

Member of the Monitoring Committee of the Congress

Chamber of regions, SOC

Member of the Assembly of Extremadura (Spain)

Expert:

Prof. Zoltan SZENTE                             Consultant (Hungary)

Member of the Group of Independent Experts of the Congress
on the European Charter of Local Self-Government

Congress Secretariat:

Ms Sedef CANKOÇAK                          Co-Secretary of the Monitoring Committee of the Congress

Interpreters:

Mr Marcus GRAUER

Mr Jan KLINGHAMMER

The working languages, for which interpretation is assured during the visit, will be German and English.

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MONDAY, 27 June 2011

Meeting with the members of local government associations

Mr Stephan ARTICUS, Secretary General

Rat der Gemeinden und Regionen Europas
(The Council of European Municipalities and Regions / German section)
and Deutscher Städtetag (Association of German Cities) 

Dr. Hans Günter HENNEKE, Secretary General

Deutscher Landkreistag (Association of German Counties)

Dr. Gerd LANDSBERG, Secretary General

Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund (Association of German Towns and Municipalities)

Mrs Angelika Graf (SPD) and Mr Christoph Strässer (SPD)
Members of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
and

Mrs Birgid Reinemund (FDP) 

Member of the Sub-Committee on local government

German Bundestag

Dr Ole Schröder (CDU)        

Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior

Ms Beate Lohmann, Head of Department O "Administrative modernisation, administrative organisation"

Dr. Tanja Laier, Unit O 2, Better regulation, reducing bureaucracy; Standard Cost Model, E-Government Act, Municipal Affairs

Mr Gottfried KONZENDORF

Mr Hartmut Koschyk (CSU)   

Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance

Mr Ulrich FREISE       

State Secretary of the Senate Department of Interior and Sports

(on behalf of Mr Wowereit)

and

Ms Christina EMMRICH, Mayor of Lichtenberg (district of Berlin)

Mr Alexander SCHNURBUSCH, Head of Berlin's Secretariat of the Conference of German Ministers for European Affairs

TUESDAY, 28 June 2011

Mr Bernd Scheelen (SPD)

President of Sub-Committee on local governement of the German Bundestag

and his assistant Philipp Ritscher and

Mr Axel Troost (Die Linke)

and his assistants Patrick Wahl and Sandra Schuster

Senate of Berlin - Joint meeting with:

Mr Günter Piening (SPD)

The Representative of the Berlin Senate for Integration and Migration

and

Ms Kerstin LIEBICH (Die Linke)

State Secretary for Integration, Labour & Social Issues

Prof. Dr Hans-Peter BULL(University of Hamburg)

Specialist on issues related to local government

Dr Bernd Schubert, Ombudsman for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and

and Mr Wolfgang SCHLOH, Deputy Ombudsman for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Visit to Postdam (30 km to Berlin) for meetings with:

Mr Gunter Fritsch (SPD) (Die Linke)

President of Regional Parliament

Brandenburg Landtag

Mr Thomas Domres (Die Linke)  

Regional Parliament’s Petition Office (and Director of the Secretariat, if possible)

Mr Rüdiger Postier

President of Brandenburg Constitutional Court

Ms Kathleen Heinrich-Reichow and Mrs Andrea Kretschmann, Research Assistants to the Constitutional Court of Brandenburg

Visit to Frankfurt and der Oder (100 km)

Dr Martin Wilke

Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) and city councillors