“Barrot, soon to be a Wise Man? », was the headline in L'Express on Tuesday 6 October. The French weekly indicates that “Jacques Barrot, whose mandate as a European commissioner is coming to a close, does not want to retire. He wants to be appointed to the French Constitutional Council”. Mandates are renewed in March 2010. The former minister of Valéry Giscard and Jacques Chirac is 72. (B.C./transl.rh)