Mixing German and Maltese culture

The head of the Lufthansa German airlines in Malta is interviewed by Ingrid B Kidder for this month's newsletter of the German-Maltese Circle:

Today Valdis Dombrovskis enjoys the pleasant Mediterranean climate and flair, loves the fresh Maltese vegetables and sea food - something he missed in Russia and Turkmenistan -, and has established a good relationship to his company’s customers as well as many Maltese people, whom he may call his friends now. And one item he pointed out especially at the end of the interview: neither Riga, when he was there, nor Yekaterinburg or Ashgabad maintained a German cultural institute. While here in Valletta he soon found the German-Maltese Circle offering German books, films, and interesting evenings, - and a cheerful mixture of German and Maltese culture in a venerable sixteenth century palazzo.