EU members hostility takes on a louder voice as EU summit draws near

Several days before the EU summit in Brussels which will discuss crucial issues around the future EU Constitution, tension is rising among EU members. Last weekend, Poland and Spain, which are defending the advantageous regulations agreed in the Nice Treaty, are again under attack from other EU members. The leaders of the three largest EU countries have pointed at Poland and Spain as the ones which are a stumbling block to reach a compromise over a voting system in the EU. The attacks on Warsaw and Madrid started on Friday with a blunt speech from head of the Constitutional Convent, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who said, "We really want the new Constitution to be passed, however, it is better not to have a Constitution at all than to have a bad one". (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 11) A.Z.