Deputy Foreign Minister forecasts outcome of pending EU summit

Deputy Foreign Minister Jan Truszczyński told reporters in Brussels yesterday that the coming EU summit will most probably decide to postpone the decision over whether to change the current voting system. "I expect that such a proposition will arise during the European Council meeting. Moreover, I can say that this proposition could become the basis for a compromise," he said. Truszczyński has warned that, "If Poland will be confronted with a choice to either accept the "double majority system" or to reject it, then Poland will have to say no to the "double majority system." President Aleksander Kwaśniewski announced that he is ready to substitute for Prime Minister Leszek Miller at the EU summit as the Premier is still incapacitated in hospital. According to analysts, this might mean Poland will head for a compromise more easily. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.K.