At June 8th 2006 mayor John Boxall visited mayor Annie Brouwer-Korf and the city of Utrecht to investigate on cultural topics for a future cooperation. Malta and the Netherlands are both nominated for the European Cultural Capital of the year 2018. The city of Utrecht has formulated its ambition to be proclaimed the Dutch candidate.
Well ahead of the year 2018 Malta and Utrecht have initiated a cooperation to concentrate on cultural matters that both partners hold in common and where new cooperations inspires new cultural developments and phenomena. Besides mister Boxall, mister Mario Attard, director of the Product Planning Directorate of the Malta Tourism Authority also attended to a number of interesting meetings with Dutch representatives of some of Utrechts cultural institutions.
The first meeting gave way to a further investigation with another three representatives of the Maltese Ministry for Tourism & Culture at June 26th 2006.
