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The GuardianIt has gone down in modern history as one of those famous quips never actually spoken – Henry Kissinger venting his exasperation with the arcane procedures of the EU by asking: "Who do I call when I want to speak to Europe?"
The conundrum persisted, even if the story is apocryphal. But at a chateau outside Brussels last week, the octogenarian US statesman found an answer to the question he never asked.
Kissinger met a haiku-writing Flemish politician, Herman Van Rompuy. The unassuming Belgian prime minister is strongly tipped to be the man whose phone number the American needs.
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Van Rompuy met Kissinger at a closed session of international policymakers and industrialists chaired by Viscount Etienne Davignon, a discreetly powerful figure in Brussels who was vice-president of the European commission in the 1980s. The viscount currently chairs the Bilderberg Group, the shadowy global freemasonry of politicians and bankers who meet to discuss world affairs in the strictest privacy, spawning innumerable conspiracy theories. Van Rompuy, it seems, attended the Bilderberg session to audition for the European job, calling for a new system of levies to fund the EU and replace the perennial EU budget battles.Read more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/17/top-european-job-selection-process
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