Will Poland cause the EU summit to fail?

Ulrich Schmid criticises the remarks of certain European politicians who, in view of Poland's blocking tactics in the debate about the distribution of voting rights at the EU's Council of Ministers, are even talking about expelling the country from the EU. "No one denies that the Kaczynskis aren't exactly in love with the EU. Unlike the pronouncedly liberal camp around former Solidarnosc advisor and Foreign Minister under the Buzek government Bronislaw Geremek, and the first prime minister of post-communist Poland, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who hoped the Union would have a positive influence on the country, the Kaczynski brothers have adopted a more pragmatic stance and are particularly sceptical about further integration and the expansion of federalist elements - as are the English. But the Kaczynskis don't reject the EU, and neither do the Polish people, the majority of whom are very enthusiastic about the Union. The EU profits in many ways from Poland's vital democracy, and even more from Warsaw's expertise in dealing with ex-communist states."

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