Britain wants deeper cuts, arguing that the costs, while small, are symbolically important.
Yet Mr Putin also wants deeper cuts in nuclear weapons, since Russia cannot keep up those it has.
The union federation, challenging the governing party's longstanding priority on inflation control, wants deeper cuts in interest rates and is demanding the replacement of the Reserve Bank governor, Tito Mboweni, when his term expires in August.
But in November a group of his colleagues broke away to form a new party, PJN, whose name translates roughly as "Poland matters most".PJN says it wants deeper, faster reforms: a challenge to Mr Tusk's go-slow tactics as well as to Mr Kaczynski's welfarist, statist approach.
"He wants deeper integration, but not a European superstate," he told the BBC.
South Africa, the de facto leader in the African continent, is keenly aware of this big shift in global economic sweepstakes and wants deeper relationships with the emerging markets.
