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14:14, July 06, 2007 |
European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering has said that he hopes Poland honors an agreement on a new European Union (EU) treaty reached at a summit last month, Poland's daily Gazeta Wyborcza said on Thursday.
Any EU member state should honor its own commitment and avoid complicating the issue, Pottering said, adding that Poland's interpretation of the agreement was based on a "misunderstanding."
Poettering's words came after Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski claimed on Wednesday that he received verbal assurances at the summit last month that contested EU decisions could be delayed for two years.
This move threatens to shake the agreement, which was clinched at the EU summit on July 23 to pave the way for formal negotiations on a new treaty this Autumn.
"I can't imagine that the European leaders could accept the use of a veto within the European Council for two years," said Poettering.
The European Parliament chief denied there was a verbal agreement with Poland during the June summit because such a demand was unacceptable.
The treaty, to be ratified in 2009, was designed to replace the abortive constitution that Dutch and French voters rejected two years ago in order to re-launch the political integration process of Europe.
The European Union has decided to hold its first Inter-Governmental Conference on the new EU treaty on July 23, a move widely regarded as a step to draft the new treaty.
Source: Xinhua
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