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Sat 03 Mar 2007Poland revives its proposal to rebalance EU voting systemPOLAND:Poland has proposed an alternative EU voting system it says benefits smaller and medium-sized member states in an attempt to revive the stalled constitutional treaty.The so-called "square root model", developed by scientists at the Jagellonian University in Krakow in 2004, takes into account population size, just like the current double majority system backed by Germany and other countries.