EUobserver.com: Rifts emerge over EU's 50th birthday declaration

re: "EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Political divisions are emerging over the EU's 50th birthday declaration, with the European Commission set to propose an explicit reference to the need for a constitutional solution and with Germany pushing a social agenda. / The first consultations by the German EU presidency on the so-called Berlin declaration - to be signed in the German capital by EU leaders and institutions on 25 March - are exposing strongly contrasting views on the content and the political role of the document. / The European Commission, which first proposed the idea for the declaration last year, views the occasion as a first step of breaking the EU's institutional deadlock produced by the 2005 "no" votes against the EU constitution in France and the Netherlands..."...