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Sun 06 Jun 2007Merkel fails to win over Poland on treatyGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel failed yesterday to persuade Poland to drop its threat to veto talks on a new European Union treaty.Merkel, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, and Polish President Lech Kaczynski held four hours of talks in a good atmosphere, a German government spokesman said.