[qgi]

Sad, but they've got basically forced to take action by the US and UK agencies. This is somewhat worse than the cold war because the US and Europe do consider each other to be allies, not enemies.

[anonymousab]

Not really. It's already been established that the German government was partway complicit in GCHQs activities in the region.

[res0nat0r]

They were surely already doing this, just making an issue about it in the press to score some political points.