"I come to Brussels with kind of an appeal: let us develop rapidly. Avoid decisions that will increase our development costs," he told reporters travelling with him.

"Several decisions of this kind have been taken recently," he said.

While Kaczynski did not specify any, tensions between the Commission, the EU's executive body, and Poland have been high notably over a number of environmental issues.

The Commission, for example, has taken action at Europe's top court to stop road work undertaken by Warsaw in a significant and fragile forest ecosystem in the northeast of the country.

The planned stretch of highway is part of the so-called Via Baltica corridor, a major roadlink for the Baltic states meant to smooth the way for increasing trade between eastern and western Europe.

To ease traffic near the town of Augustow, Polish transport authorities are building a bypass road through the Rospuda River valley and Brussels is trying to get the work halted.

Poland has been earmarked significant EU funds in the 2007-2013 budget for the Via Baltica project, although none have yet been allocated. Warsaw has said it will use its own money to pay for the Rospuda River bypass.

The Commission has also contested Poland's plan to cut carbon-dioxide emissions for the 2008-2012 period.

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