EU SUMMIT EU treaty compromise for Poland.
Nie mozna decydowac o nas bez nas!
Polacy to nie tylko 38 mln w Polsce ale takze 30 mln. na obczyznie - na calym swiecie.
Dlaczego Niemca glos ma miec wartosc 1.8 raza glos Polaka.
Jako Palak od 1987 roku w USA sledzacy sytuacje geopolityczna w EU wiem ze twarda postawa naszego rzady byla jak najbardziej poprawna.
Apeluje wszystkich polakow w kraju i za granica o pomoc i poparcie dla polskiego rzadu.
Bracia robia dobra robote.
WARSAW, Poland: Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Saturday that Poland achieved success at a European Union summit that ended with agreement on a planned treaty to replace the bloc's aborted constitution.
"This is a success for Poland," Kaczynski told reporters in Warsaw. He said the deal, agreed in the early hours of Saturday after two days of marathon talks, left Warsaw in a "strong position."
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He gave credit to his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, who represented the country in Brussels. The prime minister remained in Warsaw but consulted by phone with his brother, and EU leaders, late Friday.
"My role in this success was negligible," said the prime minister. "This is the success of Lech Kaczynski."
Poland had put up a strong opposition to the proposed treaty due to its system of voting rights, which it felt would reduce its influence. It had proposed an alternative method, but relinquished that demand after winning some other safeguards.
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"We had prepared a plan 'B' and we achieved that. It's even more favorable for us than the square root," Jaroslaw Kaczynski said, referring to Warsaw's proposal for a voting formula based on the square root of a country's population.
The final compromise placated Warsaw by keeping a system that gives Poland voting weight out of proportion to its population until 2014 and more safeguards for another three years.
After that, the new system kicks in, which will mean EU decisions can be taken by majorities representing 55 percent of member states and 65 percent of the bloc's 490
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Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczinski said this week: "We are only demanding one thing: that we get back what was taken from us."
If Germany had never invaded Poland, there would be no need to talk about EU voting rights today, says Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. In Brussels there is irritation that Poland is playing the "history card" once again. But Germans in particular should be wary of being too quick to judge.
Warsaw was destroyed during World War II, and over 6 million Poles were killed. The Poles are playing the history card in their current dispute with the EU, but with reason.
In the dispute over the voting rights in the European treaty, the Polish Prime Minister Jarolsaw Kaczynski has now come up with an argument that any German would find it difficult to contradict. "If Poland had not had to live through the (World War II) years of 1939-1945, Poland would today be looking at the demographics of a country of 66 million." The Polish leader was attempting to justify his demands for an alternative voting rights system, rather than the one proposed by the German rotating EU presidency.
A proposed compromise by Germany to overcome Poland's objections to an EU voting plan is 'unacceptable', a top aide to Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski 'The proposals on the table are unacceptable for Poland,' said Kaczynski's
(WARSAW) - Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski threatened Friday to veto efforts to agree on a EU treaty.
"If you ask me now, I'd say that the negotiations are going to end with a veto," Kaczynski said in an interview with Polish public television.
"What's been proposed to us is not enough for us to be able to accept," he added.
Poland was holding out against a planned re-weighting of voting rights which it says would favour Germany at its expense, and Britain also stood its ground on other issues.
Merkel, hosting the summit at the end of Germany's six-month presidency of the Union, says the treaty will help the EU face challenges such as global warming.
Critics fear a dilution of national sovereignty.
Merkel met Polish President Lech Kaczynski at least four times on Friday to try to break the impasse and the negotiations were expected to stretch into Friday night.
EU leaders were shocked by Poland's repeated references to its suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany during World War Two to justify its opposition to the voting system. It says it would have a larger population were it not for heavy wartime losses.
POSSIBLE COMPROMISE
Under the compromise rejected by Warsaw, Poland would have accepted a lower voting weight within the EU in return for compensation in other areas.
The new voting rules would have been introduced in 2014, instead of 2009 as originally planned, and given countries that fall just short of a blocking minority on controversial issues the chance to force further negotiations.
Warsaw would also be given guarantees that the rest of the bloc would back it in the event of future energy crises, a concern of Poland which neighbours gas and oil exporter Russia.
The EU leaders agreed on the job title, role and powers of a High Representative of the EU for foreign policy, defence and security. The post will combine the jobs of foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who does mostly crisis management, and External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who controls the executive European Commission's aid budget.
The new foreign policy chief would chair meetings of EU foreign ministers and head a combined external action service drawing on both national and EU diplomats, after Britain dropped its reservations on those points, the diplomats said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he also saw progress on other areas of the treaty that London opposes.
Britain does not want to be legally bound by a Charter of Fundamental Rights, which includes a broadly defined right to strike, is seeking an opt-out from EU justice cooperation and opposes obligatory social security payments to migrants.
Failure at the summit could prompt a small group of states to press ahead with closer integration, leaving others behind, and make richer west European countries more reluctant to aid poorer newcomers.
Nearly all the EU states favour a 'double majority' voting formula requiring 55 percent of member states representing 65 percent of the EU population to pass decisions.
Poland has proposed an alternative under which voting power would be based on the square root of each country's population. This would favour smaller states.
Eighteen EU nations ratified the constitutional treaty, but even they accept it must be cut to allow France, the Netherlands and Britain to avoid referendums their governments might lose.
Yet some key institutional changes are set to be kept, such as creating a president of the European Council of governments elected for 2-1/2 years instead of the unwiedly six-month rotating presidency.
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