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President Kaczynski says no to EU treaty proposal

13.05.2007
Polish President Lech Kaczyński has said Poland cannot accept the voting system in the European Council, proposed in the bloc’s new constitutional treaty.

He told a press conference that Poland, alongside the Netherlands, would lose the most under the new system. ‘No self-respecting state can stand idly by looking at such a course of events’, he said, adding that Poland does not want to abuse its veto power.

President Kaczynski, commenting after the end of the energy summit held in Krakow this weekend, said that many controversial issues could be resolved in E.U. legislation rather than in a joint constitution

“It’s Poland who stands to lose the most”, Kaczynski said of the proposed changes which would changing the relative weighting of voting power between large and smaller states in the union.

Germany, which currently holds the rotating residency, is trying to push through a revised ‘Constitutional Treaty’, the original of which came to a grinding halt after ‘no’ votes in Dutch and French referenda.