21/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - According to Reuters, a meeting (planned before the Brussels summit) on 27 June in Warsaw between foreign affairs ministers from Poland, Britain, Germany and France could facilitate the adoption of a common declaration on the future of the EU and enlargement, explained Pawel Swieboda from the European department of the Polish foreign affairs ministry on Tuesday. According to the same agency, in a speech on Tuesday in Berlin, Chancellor Schröder affirmed that those “who speak of excessive enlargement…are proof of the narrow mindedness of cowards”. He added that he was completely convinced and would fight for enlargement alongside convinced Europeans, “we need political Union”, he added. Dutch minister of foreign affairs, Bernard Bot said that he was sceptical about the chances of an agreement on financial perspectives this year and told the Volkskrant newspaper that at the summit thinks had been said which he had never heard in his eleven years working in Brussels (he mentioned Schröder accusing The Hague of “selfishness”, Chirac speaking of “fat and opulent countries” which were not prepared to help poor countries. He criticised the Luxembourg presidency for having dramatised things.