WARSAW, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Polish president Lech Kaczynski said on Tuesday that if Ireland ratifies the Lisbon Treaty he will sign this document approved by the Polish parliament.
Poland's President Lech Kaczynski listens during a news conference in Trakai, about 35 km (22 miles) from Vilnius, June 16, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters, File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
"I took part in negotiating the treaty and I support
it," Polish news agency PAP quoted Kaczynski as saying.
Earlier in the day Kaczynski said he would not sign
the Lisbon Treaty for the time being, since he considers the document "dead."
"Without this document the EU continues to exist,"
the president told the Dziennik daily.
The president said that he might sign the Treaty when
Ireland changed its position. But this has to be a sovereign decision, not taken
under pressure from other EU members.
"If the principle of unanimity is broken once, it
will cease to exist," the president said.
The Lisbon treaty, which aims to streamline the
bloc's institutions after expansion, was approved in April by the Polish
parliament, but needs signature of the president to become effective.
It must be ratified by all the 27 member states
before taking into effect. But Ireland rejected it in a referendum in early
June, a move plunging the 27-member bloc into crisis over its integration
process.
The European Commission said that 11 countries had
completed the ratification process so far.
PARIS, July 1 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy
said Tuesday he could not "imagine" that his Polish counterpart, Lech Kaczynski,
who had signed the initial text of the Lisbon Treaty would refuse to ratify it.
"I cannot imagine that the president (Kaczynski) who
signed the text in Brussels first, and then in Lisbon," would refuse to sign it,
Sarkozy told reporters as France began its six-month presidency of the EU on
Tuesday. Full story
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas
Sarkozy has played down the Irish rejection of EU's Lisbon Treaty that
overshadowed the French EU presidency, which began on July 1, and instead
decided to attend to issues that ordinary citizens more care about. Full story
WARSAW, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Polish President Lech Kaczynski
said on Tuesday he would not sign the Lisbon Treaty, describing such a move as
"pointless" due to the Irish rejection of the EU reform treaty.
"For the moment, the question of the treaty is pointless,"
the president said during an interview with the daily Dziennin in its online
version. Full story
WARSAW, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Poland's Prime Minister Donald
Tusk does not share French president's opinion that further EU enlargement would
be impossible without the Lisbon Treaty.
"Remarks that the Irish referendum made Croatia's,
Serbia's or Ukraine's European prospects no longer valid are unacceptable,"
Polish news agency PAP quoted Tusk as saying. Full story
