25/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - Poland becomes 22nd EU country to ratify budget pact. On Thursday 25 July, Poland's Secretary of State for European affairs Piotr Serafin tweeted that Poland had ratified the budget pact, an inter-governmental agreement to strengthen budget discipline. Poland is the 22nd country to ratify the pact, signed in March 2012 by all EU member states apart from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. The stragglers are Belgium, Bulgaria and the Netherlands....