Posted on 02/24/2006 10:46:22 AM PST by lizol
'No chance' for EU constitution in Poland, Kaczynski says
24.02.2006 - 09:47 CET | By Mark Beunderman
Polish president Lech Kaczynski has said the EU constitution has "no chance" of being ratified in Poland, while pleading for a new, less centralist kind of charter.
The Polish leader made his remarks in an interview with French daily Le Figaro on Friday (24 February), ahead of a two-day visit to France on Friday and Saturday.
"This treaty has practically no chance of being ratified in Poland, neither by referendum, nor via the parliamentary route," he was quoted as saying.
Mr Kaczynski's interview reiterated earlier calls for a new EU charter, looser and more decentralised than the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters last year.
The Polish leader told Le Figaro "In any case, it should take reality into account, that is to say the differences between the members of the union as far as the levels of development are concerned as well as traditions and expectations."
Underlining the central role of nation states in his thinking, he said "what interests the Poles is what will come out of Poland, not the future of the union as a whole. It's the same in France."
"What interests people is what Jacques Chirac says, not the declarations of Mr Barroso," he said mockingly.
On Wednesday he had stated that the current EU constitution text "brings us closer to a super-state," according to PAP.
Poland remembers "shut up" remark The trip to Paris constitutes Mr Kaczynski’s first visit to a capital in "old" Europe, before a trip to Germany planned in March.
Le Monde writes that Mr Kaczynski's choice of Paris shows a warming-up in Franco-Polish relations which suffered during Poland’s support for the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Mr Chirac famously said in 2003 after Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic backed the US position "They missed a good opportunity to shut up," adding "These countries have been not very well behaved and rather reckless of the danger of aligning themselves too rapidly with the American position."
Poland has not forgotten Mr Chirac’s "unfortunate" remarks, Mr Kaczynski indicated.
He told Le Figaro "to me, that way of thinking of the type 'we welcome you in the European Union, but you have to abide', that doesn't make sense."
Good!
Poland is a country without many Muslims.
Good news. You dont want to lose your soveriegnty to brussels in a United States of France and Germany.
It's also a country that whupped muslim keisters during the middle ages.
A Polish king led the army that broke the siege of Vienna back in 1683.
Polska!!! Polska!!! Polska!!!
Good to see Poland finally got a medal in Torino.
which is another reason they don't want the EU constitution, which will force them to open their borders to millions of 3rd world filth.
They need to get their birthrate numbers up if they don't want to be invaded like the rest of Europe.
Mr Chirac famously said in 2003 after Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic backed the US position "They missed a good opportunity to shut up," adding "These countries have been not very well behaved and rather reckless of the danger of aligning themselves too rapidly with the American position."
Chiracs arrogance knows no limits. I'm glad these countries called him out on his crap and don't want to be a part of a socialist super state where they are told how to think and what to do. Many of them remember that it was the US, not france, that helped them get out from under the boot of the USSR while France sat around building museums and bashing the US.
Poland is mostly very solid devout catholics with a good birthrate.
Unfortunately, the czech republic's birthrate is very bad.
You know the religion of peace has its sights set on eastern europe next.
One would expect Poland to be wary of socialist "unions" after their post-WWII experience. I like it when the Poles decide to draw the line.
I don't think Poland has to be worried about being invaded by any cheap labor. Poland is where most companies in Western Europe (esp. France and Germany) get their cheap migrant workers from.
The Pole fought themselves out of the communist crap and understood who the real friends are. The EU, oh well...
Actually it was King Jan Sobieski.
King Jan Sobieski
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