A delegation from the House of Representatives, led by Michael Asciak, MP, and including MPs Clyde Puli, Carmelo Abela and Joseph Cuschieri are visiting Germany at the invitation of the Chairman of the German-Maltese Parliamentary Friendship Group, Ernst-Reinhard Beck. They went on Sunday and will remain there till Friday. Throughout the various discussions being held, the delegation aims to seek to strengthen relations between the Maltese Parliament and the German Federal Parliament as well as to enhance trade cooperation, tourism, education and other issues of bilateral interest.

In Berlin, the delegation will meet, among others, the chairman of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the chairman of the EU Affairs Committee as well as the chairman of the Committee of Home Affairs.

A meeting is also to be held with the chairman and members of the Committee for Tourism as well as with the members of the Committee for Transport, Building Construction and Urban Development.

The delegation is also to meet the CEO of the Fraunhofer Group Information and Communication Technology to discuss the Euro-Mediterranean Initiative for Technology and Innovation (EuroMedITI). Another important meeting is also to be held with the chairman and members of the German-Maltese Parliamentary Group at which German-Maltese relations and prospective work of the two groups will be discussed.

The delegation will also be visiting and meeting the President of the Landtag Brandenburg Parliament, Gunter Fritsch.