G7 Summit: Citizens' Info in Hybrid Version
Created: 02/10/2022, 18:00
By: Christof Schnürer
Fully occupied Kurhaus: This is what the information for citizens looked like on April 15, 2015.
In a few weeks there will be significantly fewer listeners in the ballroom.
© FOTOPRESS THOMAS VERY
Citizens must be comprehensively informed, even under difficult conditions.
This is the credo of Krün's mayor in the run-up to the G7 summit.
Krün
– In G7 times, local politicians in the host region are in demand as dialogue partners.
"We had visitors," Thomas Schwarzenberger (CSU) reported to the Krün municipal council on Tuesday evening.
The mayor was aiming for a flying visit by a number of high-ranking representatives from the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Press Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
On Monday, they not only discussed some key issues with Schwarzenberger, but also with his counterparts Enrico Corongiu (Mittenwald) and Elisabeth Koch (Garmisch-Partenkirchen) and District Administrator Anton Speer in the run-up to the summit in Schloss Elmau (June 26-28).
But the population must also be taken along.
That is the credo of all those responsible on site.
"I begged for an information event, so to speak," reports Schwarzenberger, knowing full well that such a format will be streamlined in Corona times.
So there will probably be "end of February, beginning of March" in the Kurhaus first-hand details - for a select number of listeners - for example stakeholders from the hotel industry and agriculture or mayors of other district municipalities.
As at the premiere in 2015, high-ranking representatives from state and federal politics may also come.
Bavaria's Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann, and the new German government spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, are in discussion.
Based on the experiences of 2015, transparency is the order of the day.
"That's very important," says host town hall chief Schwarzenberger.
He can count on the support of the Federal Press Office for the implementation of this hybrid event.
Schwarzenberger claims to have received "signals" that the technical equipment comes from the experts in Berlin.
After all, the thinned-out citizens' forum should be able to be followed by everyone via live stream on the Internet.
The local population in particular should be able to enjoy this format when it is repeated at the end of May in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.