Poland may compromise over EU voting system

"I ask our Polish friends to show a will to reach a compromise," said Hans-Gert Poettering, chairman of the European Parliament. Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, while on a visit to Warsaw, also appealed to the Polish government  to give up its proposed voting system. "The system proposed by us is simply more democratic," replied Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. The Polish government still believes that it is "worth dying for," but in reality they are fighting for restarting the negotiations on the voting system. "If they take place we do not exclude a compromise," said Marek Cichocki, advisor to the President of Poland. According to experts, Poland cannot veto the system during the summit in Brussels on June 21-22, as this event does not envisage taking any decisions related to individual elements of the EU Constitution. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A6; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; Dziennik, p. 4) M.M.