Today, on June 5, 2015, at the City Council was held a meeting of the Mayor of Odessa Gennadiy Trukhanov with representatives of the State Agency of North Rhine-Westphalia, headed by Ms. Petra Wassner.

During the meeting the sides discussed the steps of establishment and development of business relations in the economic sphere for attraction German investments in Odessa.

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North Rhine – Westphalia - Land (state) of western Germany. It is bordered by the states of Lower Saxony to the north and northeast, Hessen to the east, and Rhineland-Palatinate to the south and by the countries of Belgium to the southwest and the Netherlands to the west.

North Rhine-Westphalia - Germany's the most populous state that plays a leading role in the national economy. The Rhine-Ruhr region—the country’s most important industrial area. The 21.67% of the total GDP of the country accounts for North Rhine-Westphalia.