It is too selfish interest in European Union , according to Kissinger's opinion . At present Euro-debts crisis is the effect from Euro-bank monetary system , the political structure struggling and holds the sovereign-power to control others .
The former U.S. secretary of state, who worked in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford at the height of the Cold War, on Wednesday denied ownership of a phrase often attributed to him—"Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?"—and said it may have actually been coined by a European politician.
The phrase has been ascribed to Mr. Kissinger to illustrate his alleged irritation with Europe's multitude of independent states, which didn't coordinate policy very well in the 1970s.
"I'm not sure I actually said it, but it's a good phrase," Mr. Kissinger said during a panel discussion with the Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski.
Despite decades of integration that produced a common currency, the euro and the passport-free zone for travelers, the European Union lacks a strategic concept that would allow it to become a superpower and doesn't have a clear representative for other countries' leaders to contact, Mr. Kissinger said.
"It isn't really absolutely clear when America wants to deal with Europe who exactly the authorized voice of Europe would be," Mr. Kissinger said. "Most importantly, on many issues, there doesn't really exist a unified European strategic approach."
The EU, roiled by a debt crisis that threatens to undermine the euro currency, has since 2009 had a permanent president of the European Council, the name for formal meetings of heads of EU states. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who heads the government of the EU's largest economy, is seen as the most powerful figure within the bloc despite holding no formal role in the EU's bureacracy. It also has a top diplomat, Catherine Ashton—whom Mr. Kissinger and his Polish host, Mr. Sikorski, mentioned as one of the possible contacts in Europe.
But each of the EU's 27 member states continues to run its own foreign policy, while the council president merely coordinates summits of the states' leaders.
Mr. Kissinger acknowledged that it is easier now than several decades ago "to get answers to technical questions" from Europe's institutions.
But he said the Continent lacks an internal structure—and a joint military force—that would allow it to take a bigger role in world affairs.
Write to Marcin Sobczyk at marcin.sobczyk@dowjones.com
The former U.S. secretary of state, who worked in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford at the height of the Cold War, on Wednesday denied ownership of a phrase often attributed to him—"Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?"—and said it may have actually been coined by a European politician.
The phrase has been ascribed to Mr. Kissinger to illustrate his alleged irritation with Europe's multitude of independent states, which didn't coordinate policy very well in the 1970s.
Despite decades of integration that produced a common currency, the euro and the passport-free zone for travelers, the European Union lacks a strategic concept that would allow it to become a superpower and doesn't have a clear representative for other countries' leaders to contact, Mr. Kissinger said.
"It isn't really absolutely clear when America wants to deal with Europe who exactly the authorized voice of Europe would be," Mr. Kissinger said. "Most importantly, on many issues, there doesn't really exist a unified European strategic approach."
The EU, roiled by a debt crisis that threatens to undermine the euro currency, has since 2009 had a permanent president of the European Council, the name for formal meetings of heads of EU states. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who heads the government of the EU's largest economy, is seen as the most powerful figure within the bloc despite holding no formal role in the EU's bureacracy. It also has a top diplomat, Catherine Ashton—whom Mr. Kissinger and his Polish host, Mr. Sikorski, mentioned as one of the possible contacts in Europe.
But each of the EU's 27 member states continues to run its own foreign policy, while the council president merely coordinates summits of the states' leaders.
Mr. Kissinger acknowledged that it is easier now than several decades ago "to get answers to technical questions" from Europe's institutions.
But he said the Continent lacks an internal structure—and a joint military force—that would allow it to take a bigger role in world affairs.
Write to Marcin Sobczyk at marcin.sobczyk@dowjones.com
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