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How EU treaty is viewed elsewhere (Sunday Telegraph, 14/10/2007)

Capital punishment is an issue dear to many Polish hearts, with polls showing 60 per cent in favour, and the country's prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, spoke up for it again yesterday when he visited the Olewnik family as part of his campaign to win re-election next Sunday.

It demonstrates the scale of the problem facing European leaders intent on homogenising the disparate parts of an ever-expanding European Union.

Poland is a largely Catholic and conservative country and the death penalty is just one of a range of issues on which its citizens are out of step with Brussels, from abortion to subsidies for its shipyards.