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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10055

14 January 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
Janez Potoènik appears to have won MEPs over with his vision of low-resource society with genuine concern for biodiversity

Brussels, 13/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - The three-hour hearing to which Janez Potoènik, the Environment Commissioner designate, was subjected on Wednesday 13 January before the committee on the environment of the Parliament, chaired by Jo Leinen (S&D, Germany) manifestly convinced the MEPs that they had the right person for the job in front of them. His five years of experience as Research Commissioner, which he intends to put to good use to promote an environment policy based on knowledge...

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