The European Union has asked the United States explained the German magazine reports that Washington is spying on groups, using powerful language against its closest trading partners, in its so-called surveillance activities.
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, said on Sunday that the U.S. authorities immediately contact "Der Spiegel" magazine report, the U.S. spy agency had tapped the European Union in Washington, Brussels and at the United Nations offices.
Ashton said in a statement: "When we see these reports, the European External Action Service has made contact with the U.S. authorities in Washington and Brussels, the authenticity and the facts surrounding these allegations to seek urgent clarification."
"The U.S. authorities told us that they are checking the accuracy of the information released yesterday, and we come back soon," she said.
France also requires explanation.
"These actions, if confirmed, would be totally unacceptable," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
The U.S. government said it would respond through diplomatic channels.
"We will also conduct bilateral discussions with the EU member states these problems, the spokesman said Director of National Intelligence."
"While we will not comment publicly on specific allegations of intelligence activities, as a policy, we have made it clear that the United States gather foreign intelligence collection type all nations."
"Der Spiegel" reported on Saturday, the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropping EU office, and access to computer networks within the EU, the United States suspected of spying latest revelation, prompting EU politicians anger.
The magazine followed by a report on Sunday, 50 billion U.S. agencies tap phone calls, emails and text messages a typical month in Germany, far more than any other European counterparts, and similar data mining in China or Iraq.
It also uses tissue from the Internet hub in southern and western Germany, data traffic, Syria and Mali data.
Exposing U.S. reconnaissance program, which is a public fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in the U.S. and overseas privacy rights and the balance between national security and made a sensation.
The extent to which the EU is monitoring Washington's ally, has become an issue of particular concern.
"If the media reports are correct, which brought the enemy of memory during the Cold War between the action, it is beyond any imagination, our friends in the United States as an enemy of the Europeans, said:" The German Minister of Justice Sabine洛伊特霍伊 Sale - Schnarrenberger.
"If this is true, the EU representation in Brussels and Washington really bugging the U.S. Secret Service, it can be difficult to interpret the argument, counter-terrorism," she said in a statement.
TAPPED GERMANS
German Federal Prosecutor's Office, the right to national security issues, said it was looking into whether it should initiate an investigation. Expected to bring criminal charges, the spokesman told Reuters reporters Frauke Koehler.
German particularly sensitive to government monitoring, experienced former communist East German secret police, the Stasi and the lingering memories of Hitler's Nazi regime Gestapo.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent comment on the report. Earlier this month, U.S. President Barack Obama prior to the visit, Merkel defended the government to monitor Internet traffic, however, and said that the U.S. spy network to help prevent attacks on German soil.
She stressed that Obama during his visit, there are restrictions on monitoring, but the problem is difficult to press halted.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz, the German people said that if the report is correct, which is the relationship between the EU and the U.S. will have a "serious impact."
He told Radio France, the United States has crossed the line.
"I always believe that dictatorship, authoritarian system, trying to listen to ...... However, Schulz said:" other measures, are now implementing an ally, by a friend, this is shocking, it is true in the case, In an interview with reporters France 2.
Some EU policymakers that Washington and the European Union free trade agreement between the negotiations should be kept on ice until further clarification from the United States.
"Partner does not spy on each other, justice and fundamental rights, Vivian," the European Commission said Sunday in Luxembourg to attend public events.
"We can not negotiate big trans-Atlantic market, if there is the slightest doubt that our partners are carried out espionage activities against our negotiating office," Reading opinions through her spokesman told reporters.
Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament responsible Emma Bullock, from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, echoed these views.
"Espionage has taken on a dimension, I would never have thought possible from a democratic country," he told "Der Spiegel."
"How should we still negotiate, if we have to fear, and our negotiating position is being listened to advance it?"
 



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