Spontaneity and strategy. The experience of a live "on-line chat" was "something I'd never had. As it was my first time, I felt spoilt". Valéry Giscard d'Estaing responding to last week's live question time. For two hours he answered questions from Europeans from everywhere, in all the languages of the Union on the objectives and progress made by the Convention. Personally, I was rapidly overwhelmed. I was not up to following the rhythm of the questions and answers. The President of the...