This column today does not owe much to the journalist signing it but above all to the Chairman of the Convention, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who organised an exchange of views last Saturday with a small group of journalists from press agencies so that he could let them know how he sees the current phase of work on the European Constitution. I cannot give to his remarks the form of declarations by the Chairman for two reasons: because it is not an interview and because I have grouped his...