Speaking to reporters, the German co-president of the Greens/EFA said on Tuesday 15 September 2009 that she was “happy with Stavros Dimas” as environment commissioner. Rebecca Harms regretted, however, the role played by Günter Verheugen and José Manuel Barroso, who “spent two and a half years blocking progress in tackling climate change”. Stavros Dimas “is a conservative, but he has done some very good politics”, commented Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the other co-president of the...