The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Anton Tabone discussed the possibility of a more structured dialogue between the parliamentary institutions in Malta and Germany when he met a parliamentary delegation from the German Bundestag on Tuesday.

The German delegation was composed of Lale Akgun from the Social Democtratic Party, Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenburg from the Christian Social Union, Ekin Deligoz from the Green Party and Claudia Winterstein from the Liberal Democratic Party.

The German parliamentarians were members of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's delegation.

Membership in the European Union with special reference to Malta's Mediterranean dimension and Malta's request for a sixth seat in the European parliament were also discussed.

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