EXCLUSIVE-Poland says can accept EU vote system with changes

WARSAW, June 20 (Reuters) Poland is ready to drop its opposition to the European Union's new voting system at a summit this week if it wins provisions giving it a strong voice in the bloc, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski today said.

Kaczynski told Reuters in an interview that Warsaw was still ready to use its veto power to block the EU's institutional reform if big powers tried to bully it into submission.

But Poland was ready for a compromise because the EU's drive to replace the defunct constitution with a slimmed-down treaty to improve its functioning seemed unstoppable, he said.

''We realise that we cannot stop the process (of reform) - that would be too risky for the future,'' Kaczynski said. ''We just want this to be done in the best possible way for the EU and Poland.'' Asked if he saw chances of the summit ending in an agreement of all the 27 members at close to 50-50, Kaczynski said: ''It is fair to say that.'' Reuters AK GC1912