duke of url

Okay, I'm starting to get interested in this. Am I allowed to bring it
up, since it's politics back in the Old World? Oh well...
Question the First: For some reason, Googling didn't find it - is
there a URL one of you knows that presents the whole thing?


you who will have your lives controlled by it?
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Polish president says Warsaw may veto new EU constitution
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski warned that Warsaw could veto
a proposed new European Union constitution if Poland's voting powers
were downgraded.
Referring to the draft constitution to be debated by EU leaders at a
Brussels summit this weekend, Kwasniewski told BBC television: "If the
position is what is in the treaty, without the chance for compromise,
we cannot say yes.
"At the end of the day we are right," said Kwasniewski, adding: "We
are right to fight for good equilibrium in the European Union."
The president was speaking ahead of a crucial European Union summit
starting Friday, where leaders will aim to finalise the 15-nation
bloc's first constitution as it prepares for its biggest enlargement
yet, with 10 more countries including Poland due to join on May 1.
Warsaw, along with Madrid, is set to insist on hanging on to voting
rights it gained in the EU's 2000 Nice Treaty.
That treaty gave Spain and Poland 27 votes, compared to 29 for
Germany, whose population is bigger than that of the two countries
combined.
Poland and Spain are fighting off efforts in the EU draft constitution
to correct the imbalance, while France and Germany insist on keeping
the draft in its current form.
Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said earlier Wednesday
that the EU summit could fail but it would not be fair to blame
Warsaw.
"We cannot, alas, rule out a fiasco ... because the extremely
polarised positions are expressed in a radical way," Cimoszewicz said
in an interview with Polish public radio Trojka.
"If people do not agree there will simply be no agreement," he said.
"As regards the voting system (in the EU's decision-making Council of
Ministers), there is no big problem, because we have the Nice system.
It has the force of law and will remain in force," he said.
Cimoszewicz also accused France and Germany of not respecting rules of
"fair play" by blaming Poland and Spain for the impasse.

alan hardie

Too complicated to answer Dook. Nobody knows the answer to any of
these questions least of all Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac et al.

duke of url

In news:5fohtvktdq2spnterrg2cs0p5cjo96npmt@4ax.com,
Alan Hardie <axhardie@clara.co.uk> radiated into the WorldWideWait:

That does NOT sound good...

alan hardie

Italian PM Berlosconi (sp?) has said that it will be a "miracle" if
there is an agreement reached at the end of these current talks.