Brussels, 09/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, and nearly all the ministers in his government were in Brussels on Wednesday 9 June to discuss with José Manuel Barroso and the whole of the college of commissioners on the priorities of the future Polish EU presidency during the second half of 2011 (after Hungary's EU presidency in the first half of 2011 and that of Belgium during the second half of 2010). Poland's top priorities will be energy supply security, economic governance, the preparation of the new EU multiannual budgetary framework (2013-2020), consolidation of the internal market, development of the Eastern Partnership and strengthening of the common foreign and security policy. There is a “great convergence of views” between the Commission and the Polish government on all these subjects, Barroso was pleased to state during a joint press conference with Donald Tusk. The Polish prime minister underlined that his country wants more Europe. The Polish presidency will do all it can to ensure that Europe becomes increasingly integrated, Tusk said. Implementation of a real common policy to ensure energy supply security for all member states can help to strengthen EU integration today just as, at the time, coal and steel cooperation was the departure point for the European Economic Community, Tusk said. Barroso also reiterated the Commission's complete solidarity with the victims of floods in Poland. As soon as the Polish government puts in a request for intervention from the EU solidarity fund (which it has not yet done), that request will be “dealt with quickly”, Barroso assured. (H.B./transl.jl)