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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9379

6 March 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/poland/constitution
Warsaw comes out against double majority voting - Poland to submit its views to Angela Merkel on 16 March

Brussels, 05/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - In an address to the Polish parliament on 2 March, Poland's Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga said the new treaty of the EU should turn the EU into a virtual federation of sovereign states, making it clear what the role of nation states was and referring to the EU's Christian roots. She said Poland would have problems accepting the double majority rule for decisions requiring qualified majority voting (qmv) at the Council, as foreseen in the draft...

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