Brussels, 12/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday afternoon, the Chairman of the European Convention, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, opened the plenary session of the European Convention (devoted to simplifying EU instruments and procedures on which we shall report tomorrow). He admitted that "between a merged treaty or a two-party treaty", his preference went to "a single text possibly completed with protocols", a text which, in his view, citizens would find more "readable". The Praesidium...