Poland called to account for broken promises by EU Commissioner

A Radio RMF correspondent has learned that Poland has the largest arrears in preparations to join the EU among the candidate countries, and next week the Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugen will send a special letter to Polish officials on the issue. This will be a kind of a yellow card for the government and it might negatively affect the decisions of EU Deputies voting on ratifying the accession treaty. The letter will be a complaint on unfulfilled government promises. These include delays in preparing the administration to receive multi billion Euro aid from the EU budget, insufficient fisheries inspection on the Baltic Sea, delays in introducing a border IT systems and problems with restructuring the steel sector. However, Verheugen is afraid that such document might be used by the antagonists of enlarging the EU and Polish euroskeptics. (www.rmf.pl) M.M.