Charlemagne: The summit dances

摘要

For much of this week, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski—the identical twins who are respectively Poland's president and prime minister-refused to say which of them would be flying from Warsaw to attend the European Union summit in Brussels that is trying to thrash out a new treaty to replace the failed eu constitution. The president would "probably" come, it was announced. But, if the pre-summit talks went badly, his brother Jaroslaw told a French newspaper, then he would come instead, as the "nasty" one of the two.