Monday, 1. July 2013
Topic: SECURITY - on July 1, 2013 at 2:39:00 PM CEST
NSA spying row: bugging friends is unacceptable, warn Germans
The leaders of Germany and France have rounded angrily on Washington for the first time, signalling that ambitious EU-US trade talks scheduled to open in Washington next week could become an early casualty of the burgeoning transatlantic espionage dispute.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande described the disclosures of massive US spying and snooping in Europe as "unacceptable", with the Germans suggesting there had to be mutual trust if the trade talks were to go ahead on Monday.
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