THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION WAS DISCUSSED IN BERLIN
On 15 May Undersecretary of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Žygimantas Pavilionis took part in the meeting of representatives of the European Union Member States in Berlin which aimed to prepare for the June European Council that should lead the EU out of institutional impasse.
The upcoming European Council should agree how to preserve the basic elements of the Constitutional Treaty and achieve ratification of the Treaty in all EU countries.
At the moment the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe has been ratified by 18 Member States, it is hoped that the Treaty would be successfully ratified until the elections to the European Parliament in 2009.
At the moment the most questions concerning the Constitutional Treaty arise in Poland and the United Kingdom. During the meeting most representatives of the EU Member States spoke up for the preservation of the present contents of the Constitutional Treaty. Many EU Members including Lithuania and Poland proposed supplementing the Treaty with several elements that currently are of importance for the EU, for example, effective solidarity of the EU in energy sphere.
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