Warsaw and Washington have determined the location of the future U.S. missile base in Poland and will announce their decision in the near future, the Polish president said.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski met with U.S. President George W. Bush on June 16 at the White House, where the two leaders talked about the war in Iraq and U.S. plans to build a missile-defense base in Poland and the neighboring Czech Republic.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and U.S. President George W. Bush will discuss Monday plans to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, the White House press service said.

Belarus's secret services say they have arrested a spy ring working for Poland. Four Belarusians and one Russian citizen have been detained on charges of selling classified information about the air-defense systems of Belarus and Russia.

Andrzej Lepper, Polish deputy prime minister and agriculture minister, whose recent dismissal by President Lech Kaczynski has provoked a government crisis, said he plans to return to the cabinet.

Controversial Polish cleric Father Henryk Jankowski, the former top chaplain of the anti-communist Solidarity trade union, says he wants Hollywood star Mel Gibson to film his life story.

The construction of a base for U.S. interceptor missiles in Poland could begin in February 2008, a Polish deputy foreign minister said Wednesday during talks in Washington.

European Union leaders have agreed on a blueprint for a treaty to replace the bloc's failed constitution. The announcement early this morning in Brussels came after Poland dropped its objections over voting procedures within the EU.

The first day of a European summit, which opened in Brussels Thursday, showed no signs of progress in breaking the deadlock towards a new EU Constitution.

Poland is showing signs of softening its resistance to a new draft European Union treaty, on the eve of a crucial EU summit. Germany, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, is expected to present the new document to the summit in Brussels Thursday and Friday.

On the eve of a two-day European Union summit in Brussels, the bloc's quest for a new treaty to improve the bloc's functioning hangs in the balance. Poland says it will block the talks unless it is given more power in EU votes -- and Germany less.

Poland is refusing to drop its demand for reform of the European Union's voting system - a position that could derail this week's EU summit, aimed at reviving plans for a new European constitution.