Greens commit to air quality 'super commissioner'

If the new European Commission president hails from the Greens, he or she would appoint a single commissioner responsible for both air quality and the sectors causing air pollution.

"The Greens would make sure that air quality and the polluting causes are a combined responsibility of one commissioner," Marjolein Meijer, a Greens campaign advisor, told EUobserver.

Other political parties were more reluctant to echo the Greens' pledge.

The current and previous commissions have...