By KUNA
Brussels : Members of the European Commission traveled to Slovenia Tuesday for the traditional meeting with the countrys government that holds the rotating EU Presidency to discuss about the Their working program.
Speaking to reporters in Brdo pri Kranju, an estate near capital Ljubljana, SLovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa said that the ratification of the EU Lisbon Treaty, the future status of Kosovo, and fight against climate change would be the top priorities of his countrys six-month EU Presidency. On her part, Margot Wallstrom, European Commission Vice-President, said that 2008 would the year for the union to be “as a stronger and more united EU.
” She pointed to the expansion of the visa-free Schengen area in the EU in December last year and Cyprus and Malta joining Euro area on the 1st of January.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso did not attend the meeting as he was sick. Slovenia took over the EU Presidency from Portugal on Janaury 1st.