Considerations developed under this same heading on 4 and 5 September on the state of progress of the work of the Convention make me feel that the situation is more complex and disorganised than the impression given in the analysis made by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The Chairman's attempt to achieve clarity is worthy of merit and fully justified by the aim. He was not addressing specialists but the public, and he had noted that citizens had an enormous need for simplification and...