New details about US spying on Angela Merkel compromise Denmark

New revelations about the scandal of “friendly” spying that the United States practiced on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European politicians compromise Denmark, whose secret services apparently contributed to these activities.

According to coincident information from the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the public television stations NDR and WDR, Danish espionage helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) to listen to the mobile phones of Merkel and her then Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, current German President.

The scandal over these wiretaps came to light in 2013 and tarnished relations between the two great transatlantic allies, Berlin and Washington.. Merkel expressed her discomfort to the then president, Democrat Barack Obama, and called it “unacceptable espionage among friends”. Successive journalistic revelations brought to light these practices, which the NSA had been carrying out since the 1990s and which also affected other European leaders, as well as the European Central Bank (ECB).

According to the new information, Denmark was aware of these activities and presumably cooperated with the United States in carrying them out.. The issue compromises that country, in its double capacity as a neighbor of Germany and a partner of the European Union (EU), the aforementioned media point out.. His cooperation with the NSA made it possible not only to tap Merkel's mobile phone but also to other leaders of Nordic countries, such as Sweden and Norway.