Warsaw  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk are expected to discuss several sensitive issues Monday during their meeting in the Polish port city of Gdansk, with Ireland's recent rejection of the Lisbon Treaty most likely at the top of the agenda.

Tusk has said the Irish referendum would not disqualify the treaty and the European Union would look for ways to bring it into effect.

"The treaty is good for integration in the EU," he said, "and therefore good for Poland."

During their meeting, Tusk and Merkel are expected to appeal to their European neighbours to continue ratification.

They are also expected to discuss the upcoming EU summit in Brussels and a Polish-Swedish initiative calling for greater cooperation between the EU and its eastern neighbours.

Talks on a controversial museum are also on the agenda. The Poles agreed that a museum should be built in Berlin to commemorate expulsions of ethnic Germans after World War II, but there has been disagreement over whether Erika Steinbach should be on the museum's board.

Steinbach, the chairwoman of the German Federation of Expellees, remains an unpopular figure in Poland. Opponents of the museum fear it will make World War II German aggressors seem like victims, and argue the expulsions should be put in larger historical context.

The Polish government will likely put pressure on Merkel to keep Steinbach from managing the museum, Polish Radio reported. (dpa)