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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has set out his ideas and guidelines for the Constitutional Treaty, but has been less forthcoming about other issues - Concerns about the European Commission because of Nice Treaty

Convention Members (some of them at any rate) will again be unhappy. Their Chairman Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has once again used the media (an interview with the Figaro on 22 January) to report on the Convention's work and outline his views on various important issues, saying much more than following the Convention's first meeting of 2003 and its final press conference. Who is right? The Chairman speaking to a handful of reporters, or the Convention Members complaining about it? The...