Not a Happy Chappy
“I am deeply shocked with the President’s declaration that he will attend the EU-USA summit. We agreed that it is the PM only who is going there,” says the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski. The summit will take place in Prague in several days’ time, but it is now almost certain that it will be Lech Kaczyński, the President, who will meet the US President Barack Obama. It seems that the agreement was as follows: the President attends the NATO summit, the PM attends the EU-USA summit. In the latter’s agenda, a meeting between Mr Tusk and Mr Obama was planned in order to discuss the fate of the missile defence system to be installed in Poland. It is said that perhaps Mr Kaczyński felt he should talk to Mr Obama because it will be the first meeting of the two administrations. The hosts of the summit are somewhat confused. “At the meeting with Mr Obama, each member state is represented by one person: either the president or the PM. Poland is an exception because both will come,” says Jirzi Potużnik, the Czech PM spokesperson. Why does Mr Kaczyński want to accompany Mr Tusk in Prague? One of the President’s aides claims that “every EU summit is important to him” and notes that the talks in Prague will cover not only the worldwide financial crisis, but also security issues. What troubles the PM is whether such disagreements will be the case for all EU summits in the future. Therefore, he has officially asked the Constitutional Tribunal (TK) to ultimately decide who is responsible for forming delegations for EU summits. The session of the TK has been suspended since last Friday, so all Poles need to be patient in waiting for the solution to the PM-President disagreement.
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