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Giscard: head of convention has to be French

Former French President Veléry Giscard d’Estaing hopes that a French person will chair the future Convention on the future of Europe, and expresses interest for this post. In an interview with Le Monde, Giscard d’Estaing points out that the president of the Convention which drafted the Charter of Human Rights was a German, former President of the Federal Republic Roman Herzog, and that "France should not be absent from these procedures".

He also confirms that members of the European Par...

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