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Warsaw, March 20, 2017 (Reuters/NAN) Poland on Monday promised to put up a tough fight at the EU’s anniversary summit to mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome holding on Saturday.
The country’s most powerful politician was quoted as saying that “Warsaw will not bow to any form of a multi-speed Europe’’.
The March 25 EU summit which paved the way for European integration, will ponder the bloc’s future without Britain.
Some euro zone leaders back the idea of letting some member states push ahead with further integration without the whole bloc following suit.
EU Chief Executive, Jean-Claude Juncker, who presented options for reforming the bloc to be discussed at the Rome summit, spoke positively of some states pushing ahead more quickly with integration.
“We cannot accept any announcements of a two-speed Europe.
“This would mean either pushing us out of the European Union or downgrading us to an inferior category of members.
“We must oppose that with all firmness,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the governing Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party (PiS) said.
Poland was the sole opponent to the reappointment on March 9 of Donald Tusk, Kaczynski’s political nemesis, as the European Council chairman.
That was a move that further isolated Warsaw from Brussels and cost PiS some domestic support.
A new poll by the IBRiS pollster for the Rzeczpospolita daily showed that support for PiS was down by 5 per cent.
This was after Warsaw’s fight over Tusk, while the main opposition party that once had Tusk as its chief gained 10 points.
Kaczynski did not reveal any strategy or concrete steps Poland will present at the Rome summit.
He said “we will fight for Polish interests with full determination.” (Reuters/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Abdullahi Yusuf