The Convention will be holding its second plenary session next week and the Presidium will certainly be attempting to channel the debates and prevent them going off at a tangent. The general debate allowing Members to indicate their basic positions is more or less finished (80 Convention Members have already made clear where they stand - which is already a lot). This hasn't been a superfluous exercise because it has enabled Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to draw the first conclusion: radical...