Talk: Spy Scandal - Transatlantic Trust on Trial | Quadriga

One of the biggest surveillance scandals of all time, or just business as normal? Many have been shocked at revelations about the extent to which the US has been spying on people and institutions in Europe. "Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable," a German government spokesman said. "We're not in the Cold War anymore." It's reported that Germany is the most heavily monitored country in the EU, with data on around half a billion communications being collected each month. And, according to the leaked documents, the US has been spying on other European allies too targets include diplomatic missions belonging to France, Italy, Greece and the EU itself. How serious is the threat to the relationship between the EU and the US? Is the free trade deal really at risk? Or have European governments in fact long known what the Americans were doing? For more go to