The Hague, 26/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - The preliminary draft constitutional treaty presented by the president of the European Convention offers "a helpful framework for discussion, but several proposals risk tilting the Union too far into an intergovernmental direction," said Gijs de Vries, representative of the Dutch Government in the European Convention in an address he gave on Friday at the Institute on International Relations Clingendael. Mr. de Vries (who was elected to the European...