You mean "the Americans" and "American" respectively. Here's a somewhat hagiographic but generally accurate work on the American origin of all present "Europea

You mean "the Americans" and "American" respectively. Here's a somewhat hagiographic but generally accurate work on the American origin of all present "European" institutions: http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Century-Generations-Extraordinary-Diplomats/dp/0306818469 http://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Century-Generations-Extraordi... TL;DR: all "European" institutions were designed and remain supervised by EUR at State. This should only surprise people who think the Warsaw Pact was in some sense Polish.