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Pols Urge to Raise from the Dead WW2 Victims
Poland said the voting procedures to be spelled out in the basic constitutional agreement of the European Union should reflect the WW2 losses of Poland. The population-based voting formula, Poland’s leaders claim, disadvantages their country, as it hasn’t recovered from the WW2 losses of millions, The Times reported.
But for war, Poland’s PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski said, Poland’s population would have amounted to 66 million today instead of 38 million. “If Poland had not had to live through the years of 1939–1945, Poland would today be looking at the demographics of a country of 66 million,” Kaczynski said as quoted by The Times.
The proposed constitutional agreement, which provisions are deliberated on at the EU summit in Brussels, suggests introducing the so-called system of double majority, when passing a vote calls for 55 percent of member states and 65 percent of EU population. Germany has the population of 82 million, so it will obviously benefit from it. As to Poland, it appears the obvious loser with its 38 million.
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