05/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - Rockwell Schnabel, US Representative for the EU, said on Wednesday during a dinner-debate organised by Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, that the United States wants a "strong European partner, not a weak European rival. To put it crudely, the United States considers the EU is not more effective when creating a multipolar world". Ambassador Schnabel warned that, if the result of European foreign policy means that the policy on issues such as the Iranian nuclear programme or the North Korean missiles degenerates into a sort of lowest common denominator then the US would prefer the help it can get from each Member State acting independently, bilaterally.