Cologne - Once again, politicians have to interrupt their vacations, and appear in a special session of the Council. Once again it has the right-wing citizens' movement "Pro Köln pushed through."
How should the Council on 22 July with the planned Great Mosque in Ehrenfeld deal and - as applied to the far right - a "Baustopp advice.
That is the only item on the agenda. The city could not prevent this, it is the right of a group to demand a meeting.
"This is pure election polemics," criticized Mayor Fritz Schramma (CDU), "and nothing but a waste of taxpayers' money."
Attendance fees for politicians, hourly rates for top officials, invitation, cleaning, guarding and Steno-service - the city is based on expenditures of $ 10,000.
For the mosque, there is a building permit. "The Council could, even if he wanted, not at all interfere with the supervision," said Joerg Frank, Vice Group of the Greens.
"Making an awkward and expensive attempt to attention to themselves," complains the SPD parliamentary group deputy Walter Kluth. Even the FDP's parliamentary chairman, Ralph Sterck annoys: "It is now the third, unnecessary session during a summer break. Then even the arrival of strange conventions, have cost millions of taxpayers' money. "
