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POLAND:THE POLISH government has played down President Lech Kaczynski's assertion that it is "pointless" for him to sign the Lisbon Treaty into law for the moment, writes Derek Scallyin Berlin

Mr Kaczynski overshadowed the first day of France's six-month EU presidency by appearing to call into question the necessity of the treaty rejected last month by Irish voters.