22/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to Reuters, Polish Prime Minister Leszk Miller urged the EU on Monday not to link the debate on the draft European Constitution to negotiations on the amount of aid that the current fifteen EU Member States are to provide for future Member States. The appeal comes in the wake of an intervention by the German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, who had stated that negotiations on EU funding for 2007-2013, scheduled for next year, could be linked to adoption of the draft Constitution. Some Polish diplomats saw this as a threat against Poland, which would receive less funding, in the context of the next budget, if it blocked the draft Constitution. Mr Miller was to meet Chancellor Schröder on Monday in Gelseukirchen in Germany.