Germany proposed on Friday to launch talks on a reform treaty of the European Union without Poland, but the plan was rejected by some other members states which preferred to continue seeking a compromise with Poland.

Germany, which holds the rotating EU presidency until the end of the month, said other EU member states can not stand still as Poland remains opposed to the voting system proposed by Germany.

"We will try to save the many steps forward which we achieved in the last six months in a common mandate by the other member states for the Inter-Governmental Conference," German government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm told reporters on the sidelines of a EU summit in Brussels.

"Poland will then have the chance to join the European consensus at the Inter-Governmental Conference in the autumn," he added.

Shortly after Germany revealed its plan to isolate Poland, other EU leaders, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy British Prime Minister Tony Blair said they preferred a last- minute mediation with Poland.

The leaders reportedly have been proposing a delay until 2014 in the new voting system.

Poland had said the so-called "double majority" voting system favors large member states like Germany.

Poland had threatened to veto the road map designed to kick off the negotiations on the EU reform treaty which is expected to replace the former EU constitutional treaty rejected by France and the Netherlands in 2005.

Source: Xinhua