Poland Threatens Veto of EU Climate Deal Deadline
Date: 16-Oct-08
Country: BELGIUM
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Reuters: "It is a difficult poker game in which Poland is ready to present its veto if there are attempts to force us into agreement on the climate package next month. We cannot agree to that."
Although the legislation can be adopted by qualified majority vote, Poland could block conclusions at this week's EU summit calling for agreement in December, he said. It could also invoke the so-called "Luxembourg compromise" under which an EU member state could declare an important national interest to force further negotiation in the search for consensus.
(reporting by Marcin Grajewski, editing by Paul Taylor)
