Copenhagen, 07/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - One of the European Convention's objectives is to make the EU more democratic, asserted Gijs de Vries, representative of the Dutch government at the Convention on 6 March in an address to the Copenhagen Foreign Policy Committee. He criticised the fact that, "The functioning of the 422 committees of national civil servants currently shaping EU policy is hardly subject to any public scrutiny at all". Another "anomaly" to correct was the fact that the EU...