24/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The MEP member of the CSU Joachim Wuermeling criticised Chancellor Schroeder's decision of reorganising responsibilities for European affairs within his new government by creating a new Department for Europe in the Kanzleramt (you may recall that over the past few months, Gerhard Schroeder said that he would have preferred concentrating all these responsibilities in the federal chancellery). According to Wuermeling, this will render "co-ordination at EU level even more complicated than before", as departments for Europe already exist in the Aiswartiges Amt and in the Finance Ministry. Thus, "missing is the single phone number for Germany's European policy", said the MEP (reference to the lack of a single European phone number underpinned by Henry Kissinger).