European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager | Stephanie Lecocq/EPA Vestager on her EU plans: ‘I’m a mistake, it can happen again’ ‘I feel we’re in the middle of something [and] we’re not done,’ the competition commissioner said.

STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia — Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told POLITICO Friday she had made clear to the Danish government that she would like to keep her job in the next mandate, even though her party is in opposition.

"Compared to Danish tradition, I'm a mistake, usually it's the bigger party in government that would make the commissioner," the competition czar said of her original appointment. "If you make one [mistake], then you can make another one too."

Her Danish Social Liberal Party is now in opposition back home, reducing the likelihood she will receive the green light for another five years as the EU's antitrust enforcer in chief.

"I really would like to continue as commissioner for competition. I feel we're in the middle of something [and] we're not done," said Vestager on the sidelines of the Globsec conference in Slovakia. She has fought major cases involving the likes of Google and Apple, and has expressed a willingness to see these cases through to their ultimate conclusion in the courts.

"This is what I've said to my own government and a couple of other people," said Vestager, but insisted French President Emmanuel Macron was not one of those with whom she had discussed the issue. "No matter what position you have, you still need your home country. That's the tricky thing."

As far as the commission presidency is concerned, former Finnish Prime Minister Alex Stubb has said he will run against European Parliamentarian Manfred Weber for the European People's Party candidature. Meanwhile, Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič is running for the socialists.

But Vestager isn't putting money on who will be the next Commission president.

"It's even more difficult to make predictions on that than it is Brexit," said Vestager, adding that elections across the bloc over the coming months might leave ex-prime ministers seeking new roles in Brussels. "That makes the pool of potential applicants bigger than it is this day."