Foreign minister to meet Westerwelle, address business seminar in Berlin

Foreign minister Tonio Borg is to meet his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle in Berlin next week.

The meeting follows up on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s official visist to Malta earlier this year, during which she held talks with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi.

In Berlin, Tonio Borg is also to meet Ernst Reinhard Beck, chairman of the German-Maltese Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Borg is also to address a business seminar organised by Finance Malta and Malta Enterprise, which is intended to encourage further German investment in Malta.

More than 740 German companies operate in Malta, employing a compliment of 2,500 people.

In 2010, Malta exported €276 million in productus to the German market.