A quote from MaltaMedia News, 1 March 2008

Malta and Poland broke rank with the European Union (EU) on the question of abortion [...] The dissension occurred at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) [...] The reaction of Malta and Poland happened after the EU tried to shift the meeting’s agenda to include the right to abortion. [...]

Malta firmly continues to maintain that any position taken or recommendations made regarding women’s empowerment and gender equality should not in any way create an obligation on any party to consider abortion as a legitimate form of reproductive health rights, services or commodities.” Radoslaw Mleczko, the Polish Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, told the gathering of UN Member States that Poland generally aligned itself with the EU but that any EU reference to sexual and reproductive health could not include abortion.

The split in the European Union is significant because the EU hardly ever splits on questions of social policy at the UN.