Senior European officials expressed concern on Sunday reported that U.S. intelligence agents tapped the EU offices on both sides of the Atlantic, with some leftist members urged Washington specific sanctions.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz said he was "deeply worried and shocked EU office spying on the U.S. authorities to" German news weekly "Der Spiegel", a report released Sunday allegations.
The magazine said, by the U.S. National Security Agency, has recently been claimed that it scans a large number of foreign Internet traffic to monitor the leakage of topics. The U.S. government has intercepted electronic communications efforts that this helps to prevent terrorist attacks at home and abroad, overseas defense.
Schulz said that if the allegations are confirmed, the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropping EU office ", this will be an extremely serious problem, which will seriously affect the relationship between the EU and the United States."
Greens leader in the European Parliament, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn - Bendit, an immediate investigation into the claims and recommendations should be shelved, recently launched a trans-Atlantic trade treaty negotiations.
They also called for the existing U.S. and EU agreements were canceled, bank transfers and passenger records information exchange. These two programs have been labeled as left-wing and liberal lawmakers in Europe unwarranted violations of citizens privacy.
In Germany, the National Security Agency's monitoring program has been particularly vocal critics, a senior government official on Sunday accused the United States and its allies against the EU in Washington, New York and Brussels offices of the Cold War methods used.
"If the media reports are accurate, then this review the methods used by the enemy during the Cold War," the German minister of justice 萨宾洛伊特 Hoy Sale - Schnarrenberger. "It is incomprehensible that our friends in the United States to see the Europeans as an enemy."
洛伊特霍伊 Sale - Schnarrenberger called for "immediate and comprehensive" weekly report, which cited confidential taken by the United States before the NSA contractor Edward Snowden file, the magazine said it had seen some from the U.S. government claims.
National Security Agency and the Director of National Intelligence Office spokesman in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday.
According to Der Spiegel, the National Security Agency in Washington, planted in the EU's diplomatic offices errors and penetrate into the building computer networks. The magazine said, to take similar measures in the EU's mission in the UN in New York.
Der Spiegel did not disclose alleged NSA file references, did not dare to say it is how to get access to them. However, one of the authors of the report, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and he holed up in an interview with Hong Kong is Laura Snowdon Poitras.
United States has been trying to track down Snowdon, is considered the main airport in Moscow and plans to seek asylum in Ecuador.
The magazine also did not explain how it is that the so-called National Security Agency's eavesdropping efforts in the key EU office in Brussels. There, the National Security Agency use security facilities near NATO Headquarters dial telephone repair system that will allow the EU senior officials to intercept telephone and Internet traffic, Der Spiegel reported.
Sunday, the German federal prosecutors said they are considering whether electronic surveillance program reported that the U.S. broke the German law. Federal Prosecutor's Office said in a statement that it is investigating the requirements in order to consider whether it is necessary to conduct a formal investigation before the "reliable factual basis."
It said that individual citizens may be criminal complaint on the matter, but did not comment on possible legal basis for such a complaint.
"Der Spiegel" reported that at least one such complaint with prosecutors last week in the state of Hesse.
 



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