BRUSSELS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and EU officials discussed outstanding issues Tuesday in Brussels, including the EU Lisbon reform treaty.
Tusk said Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, respects Poland's intention to join Britain in refusing to sign the fundamental rights charter of the Lisbon reform treaty, Polish Radio reported Tuesday.
The visit to Brussels for talks with EU and NATO officials was the first since Tusk was installed as prime minister Nov. 16.
Tusk wants to mend relations with the EU and Germany that were tense on many issues during the conservative government of former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose nationalist Law and Justice party was defeated by Tusk's liberal Civic Platform in parliamentary elections Oct. 21.
Among other issues discussed were an EU suit at a European court against Poland for building a highway through the environmentally protected Rospuda Valley region close to the border with Lithuania, and the EU ban on Polish boats for cod fishing in the Baltic Sea.
