And it is no secret that the Kaczynski twins adhere to Roman Catholic teachings on abortion and euthanasia as do many Polish voters.

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The government, led by the Kaczynski twins' conservative party Law and Justice (PiS), had previously opposed the constitutional treaty on the grounds that the voting method it contained a double majority system based on the number of countries and their population size would favour larger countries such as France and Germany at the expense of medium-sized countries such as Poland.

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Poland's first years as an EU member saw a string of political crises as Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins, shored up their conservative coalition government with radical nationalists and populists.

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But it lacks intellectual fire-power: its policies are flimsy and its two main figures, the twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are noted for their honesty, but also for their charmless stubbornness and limited grasp of foreign affairs and economics.

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