Brussels, 17/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller admitted on Wednesday that adoption of the Constitutional Treaty could be postponed till after the Irish Presidency. "The very idea of a Constitution may be suspended for some time. At any rate, we have until 2009 to decide upon the voting system in Council", he told the daily, Gazeta Wyborcza. "Of course I would prefer there to be a Constitution, as it contains many good solutions, but I do not know if we can reach agreement on the text during Irish Presidency", Mr Miller notes, adding that during the last lunch in Brussels he heard it said that there should be a pause, without setting a date. This was mainly the view of the British and also of practically a majority of Member States, he added. Furthermore, in an interview with The Financial Times, Mr Miller felt the initiative of six countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Austria and Sweden), which requested in a letter to the European Commission that the EU budget should be frozen at 1% of GDP for the period 2007-2013, was not a way to "punish" Warsaw and Madrid, but was rather the reflection of their own financial problems. "I do not think there is a link between this letter and the results of the Summit. This declaration (by the Six) would at any rate have been formulated no matter what the results of the Summit", he said. Also, stressing that his country had thought long and hard before defining its stance at the IGC, he warned that "Poland can modify its reasoning, but only through arguments, not threats".