Brussels, 01/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The first meeting of the European Convention came to an end, on Thursday evening, after a brief debate allowing some fifteen speakers to express their views on the organisation of the work and on the ambitions of the Convention.
Chairman Valéry Giscard d'Estaing opened this first working session with the presentation of the draft regulation and timetable proposed by the Praesidium (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.5), and specified a little later that the...