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by a_bonobo 4501 days ago
Germany is part of the Five Eyes/Nine Eyes/UKUSA network [1], which was established so that the respective intelligence communities can share data. There is at least one of the US' Echelon stations in Germany [2].

I would wager that Germany would intercept the majority of traffic in this "Europe network" and then give the stuff to the US. Nothing would change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON