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Poland: Warsaw will oppose shift to multi-speed EU

POLAND will fight the idea of a multi-speed European Union at the bloc’s forthcoming anniversary summit, the ruling conservative party’s leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski declared yesterday.

Leaders from France, Germany, Spain and Italy called earlier this month for groups of member states to be allowed to advance at their own pace as a way of cushioning the effect of Britain’s withdrawal.

The Law and Justice party leader told the wSieci conservative weekly that Poland would oppose that idea “with full strength.”

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