26/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The new minister-president of Baden-Württemberg, Günther Oettinger paid his first visit to Brussels on 24 May where he met European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and the following Commissioners: Günter Verheugen (Industry), Viviane Reding (Information Society and audio-visual) Jan Figel (Culture and Education). During a press meeting at Baden-Württemberg House, Mr Ottiner said that his party the CDU would take a firmly pro-European position in the campaign leading up to the Bundestag elections planned for the autumn and that his region, in the heart of Europe, is taken more into consideration in European transport infrastructure projects.