Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy are optimistic about the possibility of reaching a compromise before the upcoming EU summit in Brussels, Andrzej Sados of the Polish prime minister's chancellery said on Thursday.

Kaczynski and Sarkozy met for an hour in Warsaw on Thursday afternoon.

Sados told Polish PAP news agency that Prime Minister Kaczynski thanked the French president for "recognizing Poland's role among EU countries and for understanding our stand and our arguments."

Sados added that apart from European affairs the two also discussed cooperation in the energy policy, EU relations with third countries, including Russia, and international security issues, including the anti-missile shield.

Earlier in the same day, Sarkozy also was received by Poland's President Lech Kaczynski. Kaczynski said after meeting that he believed "we will reach a compromise that will satisfy all nations" during the meetings on June 21-22.

During the forthcoming summit, the EU states leaders are to adopt a mandate on the opening of the Inter-Governmental Conference that, according to the desire of Germany that ends its EU presidency in June as well as the wish of the European Commission and European Parliament, should adopt the new EU constitutional treaty by the end of 2007.

The proposed double majority voting system in EU constitutional treaty, under which most decisions would need the backing of 55 percent of member states with at least 65 percent of the EU population, is criticized by Poland. The Polish government fears that this system would make it less influential in the 27-member bloc.

Poland proposed a modification to the system, calling it "square root," which refers to the square root of the population sizes. It would narrow the weighing between the biggest and smallest countries.

Source: Xinhua