US spying to trump economy at EU summit

EU Observer ^ | 24.10.13 @ 09:28 | Valentina Pop

[Olog-hai]

It’s a diplomat’s nightmare: after weeks of painstakingly negotiating and rewriting the wording of the EU council’s conclusions, the summit gets hijacked by a completely different topic.

With no urgent decisions to take on the economic front, EU leaders on Thursday and Friday (24-25 October) were supposed to focus on innovation and “refitting” the EU rules machinery so it focuses more on the “big things” and less on small issues. …

But then the news broke Wednesday night that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone may have been tapped by the US intelligence agency NSA. …

With France also having recently been irked by media reports that the NSA snooped massively on French citizens’ phone calls, leaders’ attention is likely to be diverted to how to respond to this affair. …

[gattaca]

But I thought the world hated us because of Bush!

[SeminoleCounty]

Hopefully this kills that disastrous Free Trade deal Obama has been working on with the EU....any Free Trade deal with the EU will force the US to adhere to the EUs economically destructive environmental rules...No secret Free Trade and the Global Warming Hoax are so tied together

Hope the EU stays PO with Obama for a long time

[Falcon4.0]

I am of the opinion that the spying of Chancellor Angela Merkel completely dismisses the claim that the NSA programs are just about stopping terrorists.
Obviously you can make the point about other persons or groups that shouldn't be spy-ed on, but this puts the period at the end of the sentence of an out of control agency.

[freeangel]

The WON should just come out and state that the king of the world is allowed to do anything he wants and leave it at that. He couldn’t possible do any more damage.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

The DOMESTIC surveillance program was supposed to be just about stopping terrorists. The NSA has been eavesdropping on foreign countries for decades — that’s part of their charter.