Government sees fading chances of settling EU Constitution at summit

"My pessimism is growing," said Foreign Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz. He added that the common opinion is to delay everything until the very last moment, while Poles are pressing for the important issues to be discussed. At the same time, the government expressed its will to participate in the European Rapid Deployment Force to be created by 2007. Over the next three years some ten units would be created, each of which would have 1,500 soldiers ready for action within 15 days. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1 A7)