Conservative Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard is Brussels-bound as EU Climate Commissioner in an appointment likely to be announced at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to B.T.

B.T.’s sources say that Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has chosen Hedegaard as Denmark’s commissioner partly because EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso wants more women in his commission, and partly because the Conservative Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Lene Espersen wants Hedegaard (Cons) in Brussels.

The newspaper suggests that the only thing that can make Løkke Rasmussen change his mind is if the post of Climate Commissioner does not carry a heavy enough portfolio.

Denmark is to appoint a new commissioner in Brussels following the decision by Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel not to seek reappointment.