Councillor Waseem Zaffar, Cabinet Member for Transport and Sustainability, and Philip Edwards, Assistant Director Transportation and Connectivity, visited Frankfurt on 24 October to work on new strategies to improve Birmingham’s sustainable transport infrastructure. The study visit included meetings with the Frankfurt’s Economic Development GmbH, the […]

The British-Irish Chamber of Commerce has organised a business breakfast to welcome the Irish Minister of State at the Departments of the Taoiseach and Defence with special responsibility for Defence, Mr. Paul Kehoe to Birmingham. Mr. Kehoe will be on a one day visit to Birmingham […]

Birmingham City Council welcomed two delegates from the Catalan capital, Mr Alex Masllorens, the Deputy General Manager of Social Services, and Mrs Angels Canals, the Director of the Municipal Institute of Social Services. The purpose of their visit was to find out more about how […]

The GEP is a provincial government agency and was established in 2005 to provide financial support and advice to grow small, medium and micro-enterprises in the province and to co-ordinate relevant stakeholders. Comprising a twelve-person delegation from Gauteng province in South Africa the visitors came […]

Birmingham  Commonwealth  Association Chairman, Keith Stokes-Smith and Mike Murray, Lead Officer, International Links, Birmingham City Council, met informally with Her Excellency, Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, High Commissioner for Jamaica to familiarise the High Commissioner with  the Association, how it came to be established, its structure and how […]

The High Commissioner for Jamaica, Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet-Assamba is to lead a high level delegation to Birmingham on Wednesday 2nd July 2014.  The visit is part of a ‘JN Outlook for the future’ event which aims to promote dialogue between the Jamaican government and […]

Consul for Jamaica Mr Wade Lyn, CBE was delighted to host Jamaica’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Hon.  Arnaldo Brown M.P. on his second visit to Birmingham.  His visit was primarily to launch the Diaspora Mapping project as well as strengthening […]

His Excellency, Mr Bernard Emié will pay his first official visit to Birmingham.

On 29 October 2013, Birmingham hosted a delegation from Lyon headed by the Mayor of Lyon, Gérard Collomb. Dating back to 1951, Lyon is Birmingham’s longest-standing partner city. During his time in Birmingham, Monsieur Collomb was shown some of the latest regeneration activity in the […]