EU to Poland - comply with rules or you could lose cash


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  • Wednesday, 10 Jan 2018

FILE PHOTO - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker poses with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki ahead of talks at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

WARSAW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The man in charge of the European Union's budget raised the possibility on Wednesday of Poland losing out financially if it refuses to give ground in a bitter dispute with the bloc over its judicial reforms.

EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger's comments came after Poland's new prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, pressed a charm offensive in Brussels aimed at smoothing relations badly strained by disputes over the courts and also over migration.

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