Europeans demanded explanations for American espionage program allegedly aimed EU institutions and millions of European citizens while the last one so far progress the British newspaper “The Guardian” claimed on Sunday that France, Italy and Greece are among the 38 targets monitored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
Facing the deluge of documents are known by American former Director of the NSA Edward Snowden, who is the heart of a maze worthy of the best spy novels, Brussels has even warned of potential consequences in the negotiation of a transatlantic free trade area.
“Partners do not spy on one another,” he declared on Sunday in Luxembourg European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding.
“We can not negotiate a great transatlantic market when there is the slightest suspicion that our partners make eavesdropping at the offices of the European negotiators,” said Commissioner asking the U.S. R 20;to dissolve very quickly these allegations”.
The American National Directorate of Intelligence Services (ODNI), they fall into the 17 intelligence agencies in the country, including the NSA, said in a statement that the U.S. “will respond in the appropriate manner” in the EU and the Member States through diplomatic channels.
his part, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gkacht said talking to a Belgian TV channel that if these categories are confirmed, the case is “very serious”.
“Purity , truth and transparency: these are and who we should expect from our friends and allies. U.S. The explanations are necessary and urgent, “he said through his Twitter account, the French commissioner Michel Barnier.
The three commissioners reacted with such declarations by the revelations of the German weekly magazine “Der Spiegel” which assured yesterday that the Prism, the program spying NSA, was aimed at the inst itutions of the EU
The “Spiegel” base classes in confidential documents in its possession thanks to Snowden, who sought political asylum in Ecuador and is here for a week now blocked at the airport in Moscow, as his passport was canceled by the U.S., requesting him for espionage.
France also requested explanations “as soon as possible.” “These facts, if confirmed, is completely unacceptable,” said the head of French diplomacy Laurent Fabius.
The French Justice Minister Christian Tompira went further by saying that if Washington actually made the espionage operations described by ” Spiegel, “it would be” a despicable hostile act “.
For German counterpart Zampine Loitchoiser-Snarenmpergker, which also asked to give” explanations, promptly and in detail, it conjures up actions between enemies during Cold War “.
According to” Der Spiegel, “the spying program includ es not only the installation of microphones in the building of the EU in Ouasignkton but also penetrating the computer network that allowed those who attended to read the e-mail and internal documents. The EU delegation to the UN monitored in the same way, according to these documents, in which the Europeans are explicitly mentioned as “objectives to prosvolin”.
The latest revelations made yesterday the “Spiegel” is likely to enrage German public opinion, which is very sensitive to issues of privacy.
Germany is indeed “the European country watched enough” of the NSA, with 500 million telephone and Internet-based connections are monitored every month, assures magazine, which explains how a “normal” day spying on approximately 15 million telephone calls recorded in Germany, compared with about two million daily in France.
Germany, like France, are considered by the NSA less reliable than the Canada, Britain, Aus tralia and New Zealand, also explains the “Der Spiegel” based on these documents.
According to “The Guardian”, the monitoring operation of the French delegation to the UN named “Blakfout” and that was aimed at the French Embassy in Washington “Wabash”.
The Italian Embassy in Washington was a target of an operation, code named “Brenna”.
In fitting with the “Guardian”, the follow- the Greek Mission to the UN brought codenamed “Powell” and the operation against the Greek embassy called “Klondike”.
Europeans are nevertheless “among the closest allies” of the U.S., confirmed yesterday the deputy national security adviser Ben Road. Questioned by AFP, the State Department spokesman Marie Charf refused to make any comment.
The European Parliament President Martin Schulz spoke of a possible “huge scandal” and the ecologist MEP Daniel Co hn-Bendit asked to stop immediately the ongoing negotiations for a transatlantic free trade agreement, but not signed an agreement with the U.S. on personal data protection.
Negotiations in this direction began in 2011 and still have not completed.
After the first revelations of the Prism, the European Commission had confirmed that Washington has agreed to inform Europeans. But the relative promise not seem to be respected, as Brussels called again on June 19 responses “as soon as possible”.
Again according to “Der Spiegel”, the NSA had even extends to Brussels businesses before “More than five years”.
In 2003, the EU had indeed confirmed the discovery of a system of telephone bugging the offices of many countries – including France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Austria and Italy – the headquarters of the EU Council
is difficult to say whether this is the same case as the investigation of the Belgian j ustice had not reached anywhere.
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