Brussels, 15/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - During Friday's press conference at the end of the European Convention's work session, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing commented that the debate on external policies and defence had resulted in positions being taken that were more balanced that the Commission's contribution. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing explained that most Members wanted Communitarisation to go much further but in a way that was realistic and that they had recognised the role of the High Representative. He declared that he had witnessed the "will to succeed" by the taking into account of what was possible and by ensuring a greater transparency of European Union action. Mr Valéry Giscard d'Estaing pointed out that the debate on the inter-governmental method or Community method was fifteen years old and that they had not provoked it but needed to get rid of it. In the context of further enlargement, he considered that both methods were needed to protect the rights of smaller countries. The President of the Convention explained that they ought to find a system that combined the two Union legitimacies and indicated that he intended to propose an "Article 1" defining the Union on the basis of these two legitmacies