Ulrike Liedtke, President of the Brandenburg State Parliament, speaks in the State Parliament (archive photo) Photo: Bernd Settnik/dpa
From BZ/dpa
The people’s representatives in Berlin and Brandenburg want to coordinate regularly on transnational issues in the future.
Joint solutions are to be promoted in a “parliamentary conference”. This was agreed by the President of the Brandenburg State Parliament, Ulrike Liedtke, and the President of the Berlin House of Representatives, Dennis Buchner, on Tuesday.
“We want to improve the vote on cross-border topics and projects from within Parliament and give impetus,” said Buchner. “That is our common aspiration to further develop the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region.” In a referendum in 1996, the people of Brandenburg rejected the plan to merge the two federal states.
Eleven MPs are to be sent to the “Parliamentary Conference”, which meets three times a year. Their resolutions are then to be introduced in the House of Representatives and the state parliament. The FDP in the Potsdam state parliament does not go far enough with the “parliamentary conference”.
“The few meetings of this new body do not do justice to the challenges of the metropolitan region.”