Briton is tipped as EEC transport director
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• The Common Market Commission has agreed that a Briton should be given the top civil servant post as director-general with responsibility for transport policy in Brussels, . writes our political correspondent.
The names of the new directors-general are to be officially announced in Brussels next week, but EEC officials in London expect that the transport post will go to Mr Nigel Despicht, Director of the Transport Division of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations. He advocates a liberal transport policy in the EEC.
Britons are in line for two other director-general posts and also for four deputy, directorships. However, the deputy director-general for transport is expected to be a Frenchman or a German.
Transport policy is one of Britain's top priorities in Europe and although the directors-general are, first and foremost, Europeans responsible to the EEC Commission and not to the governments of their own countries, there is satisfaction in Whitehall that someone who is aware of Britain's special problems is to get the post.