14/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Responding to rumours that France is planning to put off for three years the year in which it will have a balanced budget (2007 rather than 2004), the former French president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Chairman of the European Convention, said in New York on Monday that with a great deal of care a potential request for the French commitments would have to be considered, with the idea of seeing what kind of margins exist in the system and taking a pragmatic...