France Demands US End Spying on EU Diplomats 🇫🇷

French President François Hollande on Monday issued a sharp rebuke to the Obama administration over alleged US spying on EU diplomats, calling for an immediate end to the surveillance amid warnings that it could affect US-EU trade talks.
In the strongest reaction yet to allegations of US eavesdropping on EU diplomats, French President François Hollande on Monday demanded an immediate halt to the surveillance and issued a veiled threat that the "unacceptable" spying could jeopardise US-EU free trade talks.
We cannot accept this kind of behaviour between partners and allies," Hollande told journalists during a visit to the western French city of Lorient on Monday.
We ask that this immediately stop," Hollande added. "There can be no negotiations or transactions in all areas until we have obtained these guarantees, for France but also for all of the European Union.Hollande's rebuke came a day after German weekly magazine Der Spiegel published a report alleging that the NSA (National Security Agency) bugged EU offices and computer networks.Citing documents leaked by former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden, the Der Spiegel report revealed that the NSA had tapped EU offices in Brussels and gained access to EU internal computer networks, as well as bugged diplomatic offices in Washington and at the UN headquarters in New York.
It also claimed that the US secret service had access to around half-a- billion phone calls, emails and text messages within Germany in a given month.