Monday, 1. July 2013
Topic: SECURITY - on July 1, 2013 at 4:05:00 PM CEST
PRISM leaks: WTF, you don't spy on your friends, splutters EU
Berlin has accused Washington of treating it "like a Cold War enemy" after it emerged that US spooks spied on targets from friendly European countries.
Vice-president of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes, told BBC:
Of course it is a shock and it's not acceptable at all. It's not acceptable because it is a friendly relationship... The member states should sit together and make up [our] minds how we are dealing with this. Of course, talking between friends, it should be clear first that it will never, ever happen again...
According to a report published in Der Spiegel over the weekend, American spies bugged the EU embassy in Washington and its offices at the UN in New York, as well as a key building in Brussels.
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