Potocnik Answers Question about His Commissioner Job

Brussels, 31 March - "My overall priority during the six-month term of office is to take active part in the Commission decision-making process...In my specific field of work, i.e. enlargement, my main priority will be to contribute to the successful integration of the new member states into the EU." This is what Europe Minister Janez Potocnik, a European commissioner designate, wrote in his replies to a European Parliament questionnaire ahead of a hearing scheduled for April.