Warsaw  - Polish President Lech Kaczynski said it was "impossible" for Poland to adopt the euro by 2011, warning that the financial strictures needed for the changeover would bring economic hardship on large segments of the population.

"I think the year 2011 is a pointless question," he said on Tuesday, "because it's obvious even now that's a completely unrealistic date."

Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Friday said the Polish and Baltic stance on Georgia at an upcoming European Union summit "won't be completely radical, but radical enough."

"We will defend Georgia to the end, to the fall," the Polish Press Agency (PAP) quoted Kaczynski as saying on his return from a meeting in Tallinn of the heads of Baltic states Estonia and Latvia and a representative of Lithuania's president.

The politicians had met Thursday to work out a common stance on Georgia before Monday's EU summit on the issue. Kaczynski declined to give further details after the meeting, saying there's no common stance yet, but that two variances were being considered by the group of leaders, PAP reported.

Warsaw  - President Lech Kaczynski was slated to meet with heads of three Baltic states to work out a common stance on Georgia for an upcoming European Union summit, his chancellery told Radio ZET on Thursday.

"There's an expectation from the Baltic states that the president in Brussels will present a common stance of the three states - the three Baltic states and Poland," said Piotr Kownacki, vice-chief of the president's chancellery.

Kaczynski will meet with his counterparts from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia either on Thursday or Monday. He could fly Thursday to Vilnius or another Baltic capital, Kownacki said, or meet the heads of state in Brussels on Monday before the summit.

Warsaw  - The Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Saturday criticized Germany and France for what he considered their pliability vis a vis Russia in the current crisis in the Caucasus.

Both Western European countries have had a "very typical" relationship with Russia, Kaczynski said in an interview published in the Rzeczpospolita daily.

This position by the two countries is due to "the historical experiences and interests of corporations" that are looking to make "big money" in Russia.

Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski has said in an interview in Tuesday's Dziennik newspaper that he plans not to go ahead with ratification of the EU's Reform Treaty following Ireland's reje