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Denmark is accused of helping the US spy on European politicians such as Germany's Angela Merkel.

German politicians have reacted with shock to revelations that Denmark’s foreign intelligence unit partnered with US National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Among EU member states, such surveillance operations should be an absolute no-go,” Green MEP Hannah Neumann and member of the security and defence subcommittee told EURACTIV Germany. “It is particularly shocking that the Danish government apparently knew about the illegal actions of its intelligence service as early as 2015 without informing ...

According to the investigation, which covered the period from 2012 to 2014, the NSA used Danish information cables to spy on senior officials in Sweden, Norway, France and Germany.

Le Monde and Süddeutsche Zeitung has revealed a rather sensational espionage story. US intelligence agency NSA has reportedly been snooping on American allies, including Swedish politicians, with the help of…Sweden’s neighbour, Denmark. To make matters worse, the Danish defense minister has apparently been sitting on the information for a whole year, without telling her Swedish counterpart. Ouch. Things will be chillier than usual at this June’s Nato-led maritime exercise (‘Baltops 50’) in the Baltic Sea. The closing of the bridge between Denmark and Sweden to prevent the spread o...

This was revealed in a report by Danish state broadcaster DR. The findings are the result of an internal investigation in the Danish Defense Intelligence Service from 2015 into NSA’s role in the partnership, DR said, citing nine unnamed sources with access to the investigation. This is unsurprising, as the fact that the US spies on its allies regularly has been known fact, for a while now. The timeline in the investigation covers 2012-14, and then the NSA used Danish information cables to spy on senior officials in Sweden, Norway, France and Germany. Asked for comment on the DR report, a sp...