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.''
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