Belka returns from Brussels amid cries of treason

At the EU summit in Brussels Prime Minister Marek Belka put up a considerable fight to make sure that European countries cannot enforce their will upon Poland under the newly agreed EU constitution. However, domestic opposition parties have blasted him for agreeing to its terms. The Polish Families League (LPR), the most radical anti-EU party, is calling for Belka to face the State Tribunal, claiming that Poland's interests will not be sufficiently protected. They argue that as Belka's cabinet has not been approved by a Parliamentary vote of confidence, he had no right to take an such an important decision as granting the nation's consent to the EU constitution. Jan Rokita (Civic Platform) claims that the Polish delegation could have won more at the summit, were it not so submissive, a stance, which he attributes mainly to President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. However, Rokita said that his party will carefully review the Constitution before deciding whether to call for its rejection in the referendum. What Belka did manage to achieve, is that under the new Constitution, a group of at least four countries with at least 35% of the EU's population will be able to reject a decision in the European Council, while countries with at least 26.25% of the population will be able to delay decisions. These possibilities give Poland an ability to block unfavorable decisions in the Council as the Nice Treaty did. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; Rzeczpospolita, June 19-20, p. A1) T.J.