Poles threaten to veto Constitution

Poland is threatening to torpedo a deal on the EU’s first constitution if it does not get its way on the voting system.

The Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski said yesterday that if the weight of its votes is reduced his country would veto the deal which has been almost two years in the making.

"If the position is what is in the treaty, without the chance for compromise, we cannot say yes", he told the BBC.