Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

All members of the EU should be very concerned about the information that has come into the public domain in the past two weeks from Edward Snowden. It is a little scary. The notion of bugging European embassies and offices has nothing to do with the US's so-called fight against terrorism, and it might impact on the free trade talks beginning next week. President Obama seems to think that is normal and is what happens but that will not wash. The French and the Germans are not pleased and do not regard it as normal to bug one's friends and collect data from them.

Some 500 million communications are being tampered with every month in Germany alone. That beggars belief.

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