UPDATE 1-Polish PM open to proposals on EU voting

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WARSAW, June 22 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Friday he would be ready to study other options if there was no agreement on Poland's proposal to change European Union voting rules at an EU summit in Brussels.

Warsaw is resisting plans to re-weight the voting system because it says the changes will favour countries with larger populations, such as Germany, at the expense of Poland.

Poland has proposed an alternative under which voting power would be based on the square root of each country's population. This would favour smaller states rather than larger ones.

"If there is no agreement on the square root (voting plan), then we could talk about other solutions," Kaczynski told a news conference.

He remained in Poland while his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, took part in the summit.

The prime minister said Poland wanted to "moderate the revolution" that the treaty plan would bring to the EU. It is intended to reform and strengthen the Union following its expansion to 27 member states.

He said he stood by controversial references to Poland's suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War Two to support its position at the summit.

He has said Poland deserves more voting power in the EU because its population was decimated by Nazi Germany and would otherwise be much larger now than 38 million.

"I don't remember ever saying this in public," Kaczynski said. "This is simply the truth. This is not about settling accounts with the Germans. This is about making people aware about a certain moral situation."