French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have asked the United States and Denmark for clarification in the media that Danish intelligence has helped American colleagues spy on high-ranking officials in Europe.
Macrons said he did not accept the Allies’ behavior, but the French Minister for European Affairs, Clement Bons, had called on the Danish government to investigate.
Danish public radio reported on Mondaythat between 2012 and 2014, the country’s foreign intelligence service helped the U.S. National Security Agency access telephone messages and conversations between Merkel and other leading politicians.
The Socialist People’s Party in the Danish Parliament has said it wants to question defense and justice ministers in connection with the espionage scandal.
Denmark has worked with the United States to monitor and collect data from submarine internet cables, for which purpose a special data center has even been set up near Copenhagen.
The American services were thus able to access European politicians’ mobile phone text messages, telephone conversations and Internet traffic, as well as search and chat.
Information on that The United States has spied on its allies, first appeared in 2013, but only now have journalists found evidence of it.
The espionage took place between 2012 and 2014, when the US president was Barack Obama and the vice president was Joe Biden, who now holds the presidency. Biden will go to Europe on his first visit in two weeks and also meet Merkel.
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