It will be a last minute decision if the Premier will attend the EU summit

The health of Prime Minister Leszek Miller has deteriorated and the decision whether he will attend the Brussels EU summit has been postponed until Friday. The director of Warsaw's Interior Ministry Hospital Dr. Marek Durlik said that if Miller flies then as the plane takes-off, the extra pressure will impact on the Premier's two broken vertebrae, which would eventually endanger his health further. Durlik added that the Prime Minister was walking around his room, the corridor and up and down stairs. "All the exercises coupled with various operations and physiotherapy were very exhausting for the him," Durlik said. Marek Wagner, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, said that today the government is planning to discuss the EU summit and that Miller will temporarily leave the hospital in order run the meeting. Meanwhile on Radio Zet, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski said that he would go to Brussels to participate in the EU summit only, "If there are exceptional circumstances," or if the Prime Minister is incapable of going himself. "I am at his disposal if necessary," he said. Kwaśniewski added that the possibility to postpone the decision on the voting system in the European Council until 2008 may win Poland's acceptation. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.Z.