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European Leaders Accuse U.S. of Violating Trust 2013-10-25 15:52:40 Release　Author：cuyoo　Read Flow：2568次: Outrage over alleged U.S. spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal cellphone spread across Europe on Thursday, threatening to complicate an array of America's trans-Atlantic interests.

As European leaders took turns castigating the U.S. at a regularly scheduled summit in Brussels, and the German foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador for the first time in recent memory, it appeared that the political bluster over the U.S. surveillance scandal was turning into something that could inflict serious damage on Washington's relationship with Europe.

The U.S. scrambled to respond, privately pointing out that other countries benefit from the intelligence it collects--and pointing out that some other countries do the same.

'It is necessary to think about what we need now--what data privacy agreements do we need, what transparency do we need?' Ms. Merkel said. 'The United States and Europe face shared challenges. We are allies, but such an alliance can only be built on trust.'

In Germany, the continent's biggest economy, Ms. Merkel had for months played down the significance of the scandal, saying she trusted Washington's assurances that U.S. intelligence services would hold themselves to German law on German soil.

On Thursday, she said that trust had broken down. Her foreign minister switched to English at a news conference in Berlin to tell Americans, 'We need the truth now.'

In Brussels, some European Union officials questioned whether it made sense to continue with talks on the trans-Atlantic free-trade agreement, which the two sides kicked off in June. 'Now how can we prepare for these meetings if they had been secretly listening in on us?' asked Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament.

Others called for stricter Europe-wide data privacy rules, which could make it more difficult for American Internet giants to do business. And many spoke of a deeper loss of trust in the U.S., an atmosphere that could complicate joint antiterrorism efforts and test the traditionally close trans-Atlantic cooperation on key geopolitical issues like the civil war in Syria and Iran's nuclear program.

The Obama administration acknowledged that recent revelations about the National Security Agency's activities have 'caused tensions' with Germany and other important allies, but said it doesn't expect the relationships to suffer.

'We are dealing with that set of issues through diplomatic channels,' said White House press secretary Jay Carney.

President Barack Obama spoke with Ms. Merkel by telephone on Wednesday, days after he had a similar phone call with the French president, François Hollande, following a report that the NSA had collected data on millions of phone calls and text messages in France.

In these exchanges, the U.S. provides details of what it monitors, what it doesn't monitor and emphasizes that it isn't scooping up vast swaths of communications, a senior administration official said. But, the official said, the U.S. also points out that these countries also benefit from some of the intelligence the NSA scoops up, including in their countries. 'It's a reality check about what we're doing, what we're not doing, and how we can work together on this stuff,' the official said.

There is also a message, either implicitly or explicitly, the U.S. official added, that too much outrage will expose what the official called the hypocrisy of the complaints, because the U.S. is aware that other countries also work to spy on U.S. government officials.

That view was by echoed some in Europe as well, including the former head of French intelligence, who said he was astonished by the reaction in Paris.

'The French intelligence services know full well that all countries, whether or not they are allies in the fight against terrorism, spy on each other all the time,' Bernard Squarcini, who ran the service until last year, told Le Figaro newspaper.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in Washington on Thursday that the French were snooping on her when she served as United Nations ambassador, before becoming the top U.S. diplomat.

She didn't provide many details, but said at a public appearance that French officials were aware of a personal conversation she had had because of an 'intercept.'

A spokesman for the French foreign ministry said he had no information on the event in question. Germany, which has insisted that spying among allies is inappropriate, wants a 'no-spy' agreement with the U.S. in which the two countries would promise not to snoop on each other.

Nevertheless, European leaders continued to vent their outrage. The European Commission's president, José Manuel Barroso, drew a parallel between U.S. spying and the activities of the former East German state secret police, the Stasi.

'You speak about Chancellor Merkel in Germany, there was a part of Germany where there was a political police that were spying on people's lives every day,' Mr. Barroso said. 'We know very well what happens when the state uses powers that intrude in people's lives.'

As Ms. Merkel traveled to Brussels to take part in the quarterly summit of European leaders, her ministers voiced frustration back home and described new damage to a valued relationship.

Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle summoned the new U.S. ambassador in Berlin, John Emerson, while Special Affairs Minister Ronald Pofalla addressed a special session of a parliamentary oversight committee.

Mr. Pofalla had said in August that allegations of U.S. spying on German soil had been largely resolved. But on Thursday he said that evidence of surveillance of Ms. Merkel's cellphone represented 'an utterly new caliber' of scandal, and that he was now seeing the NSA's past assurances in a new light.

Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said the new revelations prompted her to support the suspension of a trans-Atlantic agreement that allows the exchange of bank data to fight organized crime and terrorism. The European Parliament had voted Wednesday to ask the EU's executive body to suspend the accord.

The German government revealed late Wednesday that it had information that Ms. Merkel's cellphone may be under surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies. Mr. Obama assured Ms. Merkel in the phone call that the U.S. doesn't and won't spy on her communication. But the White House didn't provide that assurance about the past.

The German statement referred to Ms. Merkel's personal cellphone. She has often been seen in public with a Nokia NOK1V.HE -3.18% phone, sending and receiving texts.

'Spying among friends is completely unacceptable,' Ms. Merkel said in Brussels, in her first public comments on the matter. 'We need trust among allies and partners, and this trust needs to be rebuilt.'

Ms. Merkel and Mr. Hollande, who discussed the matter Thursday, agreed that tougher data-protection rules should be a priority for Europe, but didn't discuss specifics, according to a French official.

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European Leaders Accuse U.S. of Violating Trust