Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski met here Thursday with visiting European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso to chew over the European Union's so-called Reform Treaty.
Kaczynski told reporters after the meeting that he informed the EC president of Polish proposals concerning the new EU treaty.
"The meeting was useful and interesting for the two sides," Kaczynski was quoted by the Polish PAP news agency as saying.
Barroso told the Polish leader that Europe needed the treaty to be able to function effectively.
"I really believe it is in the long-term interests of Poland to solve all the institutional problems of the EU," Barroso said.
At the June 2007 European Summit, EU leaders signed an agreement on hammering out the final text for a new treaty to reform the EU's institutions, ending a two-year stalemate after France and the Netherlands rejected the previously proposed constitution in referendums.
Poland fought with EU partners ahead of the June summit and won a delay in the implementation of a new voting system they fear will give too much power to bigger states. The Poles demanded that the treaty include a mechanism allowing countries to be able to put off EU decisions if they were just short of enough votes to block them.
Barroso said the upcoming EU summit, to be held in Lisbon in October, would be "very important" to the future of the entire bloc and urged Poland to support the treaty.
"I think it is possible to find technical solutions that will respond to the concerns of all the member states," he said.
The future EU constitution is regarded as an absolute necessity to streamlining internal procedures in the bloc ahead of its planned eastward expansion.
Source: Xinhua
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