Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk appealed to the opposition Wednesday to work towards a change in the constitution that would enable Poland to enter the eurozone by 2012.

Poland would need to alter its constitution to allow the European Central Bank to be a monetary authority in the country. Currently the constitution gives the National Bank sole power to distribute money

Tusk has been working to sway Poland's euro-sceptic Law and Justice party, whose support is needed to change the constitution.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Saturday that the establishment of the US missile shield in his country was solely of concern to Poland and the United States.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, would have no influence on the project, Tusk said in Warsaw, according to Polish news agency PAP.

He expected "no comments, no actions" for a third country on the issue of the missile shield. Even friendly countries should not interfere, Tusk said.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday dismissed a Russian threat to deploy missiles near the Polish border to counter a planned US missile defence system.

"I wouldn't attach too much weight to these types of declarations," the Polish Press Agency quotes Tusk as saying.

Hours earlier, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said Moscow would deploy short-range missiles in its Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad.

Warsaw - The Polish president will attend an upcoming European Union summit alone, TOK FM radio reported, after the prime minister said he would yield his place at the Brussels negotiating table in the latest round of their tense power struggle.

"I will inform the president if he's decided he must go to Brussels, then I will yield," Prime Minister Donald Tusk recently said, adding he would inform President Lech Kaczynski about the government's stance on issues to be discussed at the November 7 meeting.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government would approve a strategy for entry into the eurozone after meeting with an opposition party leader on Monday.

Tusk said the government had prepared a plan to enter the eurozone that would be accepted on Tuesday and later be presented to President Lech Kaczynski.

Tusk met with Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and said there was a "clear difference of opinion" on when to switch currencies, with Kaczynski advocating an unspecified later date.

Berlin - Poland and Germany remained at odds Thursday over climate targets, despite talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Berlin.

Merkel said she hoped the differences would be settled at an EU summit in Brussels October 15-16.

Warsaw has opposed emissions-reduction targets proposed by the European Commission as too tough, and has called for Poland to receive a significantly larger allowance in the later phases of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.