The first working day for the new Danish EU Commissioner
Two minutes was all I got for a photo-session with the new Danish Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, on her first working day in Brussels.
Two days after she resigned as Minister for the Climate Summit COP15 in Copenhagen Sunday the 20th. December, were she busy building up her future cabinet.
I was asked to make a picture for the Danish Photo Agency Scanpix, but there was not much of a photo in it. I knew I had to write an extended caption which could go with the picture in order to get it published in the Danish newspapers. I asked her a few questions and recorded them, since there was no time to take notes and pictures at the same time.
I had not planned anything else than the photo and the caption, but after the short meeting and listening to her answer I thought it could also become a small “Soundslides” for a WEB-TV. It was published on the Danish daily newspaper, Berlingske Tidende’s website and can been seen here: http://www.berlingske.dk/webtv/99/7168
BRUXELLES - BELGIEN - 22 DECEMBER 2009 -- Connie Hedegaard havde knap overstået sit arbejde som minister for klimatopmødet i COP15 i København, da hun dagen efter sin afskedsbegæring hos Dronningen, var i arbejde som EU's kommende klima kommissær i Bruxelles. Mandag morgen og hele dagen deltog hun og hendes kommende kommissær kollegaer i et hermetisk lukket møde sammen med formanden for Europa Kommissionens formand Jose Manuel Barroso, hvor de fik information om reglerne for deres virke, deres administration og budgetter. Tirsdagen var igen hektisk, hvor hun interviewer kandidater til hendes kommende kabinet. Her ses under en lille pause fra sine ansættelses interviews ude foran den bygning i EU kvarter i Bruxelles, hvor hun midlertidigt har sit kontor, inden de nye kommissærer kan flytte ind i Europa Kommissionen hovedkvarter, Berlaymont, 10 minutters gang derfra. Photo: Erik Luntang/EUP-Images PHOTO: ERIK LUNTANG / EUP-IMAGES