Mehr Transparenz wagen!

Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (04/2022)[1]

915–922[2]

Mehr Transparenz in Untersuchungsausschüssen wagen! Ein Plädoyer aus der Praxis Fabio De Masi[3]

DOI

• doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2022-4-915[4]
• ISSN print: 0340-1758
• ISSN online: 0340-1758
• Nomos, Baden-Baden

ABSTRACT 

Inquiry committees are the opposition’s sharpest sword in the German Bundestag . In con- trast to the European Parliament, the U .S . Congress, and other international examples, however, TV or Internet transmissions of witness hearings are not common in practice . In the German Bundestag, a double barrier to transmission exists and it consists of the con- cerned person’s consent as well as that of a two-thirds majority in the committee . The author argues in favor of facilitating TV or Internet transmissions of investigative commit- tees by elevating it to an opposition’s minority right while maintaining the requirement of witnesses’ consent to transmissions . That way witnesses could also protect themselves from media distorting their statements, while at the same time fact-finding by a critical public would be supported, and even help to avoid theatrical staging of investigative committees .

Links:

1. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0340-1758-2022-4/zparl-zeitschrift-fuer-parlamentsfragen-jahrgang-53-2022-heft-4?page=1
2. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0340-1758-2022-4-915/mehr-transparenz-in-untersuchungsausschuessen-wagen-ein-plaedoyer-aus-der-praxis-jahrgang-53-2022-heft-4?page=1
3. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0340-1758-2022-4-915/mehr-transparenz-in-untersuchungsausschuessen-wagen-ein-plaedoyer-aus-der-praxis-jahrgang-53-2022-heft-4?page=1
4. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2022-4-915