"Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. Is it time
“Documents show that Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America’s NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. Is it time for the country to open a formal espionage investigation?”
See the article: ‘A’ for Angela Merkel: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies (Der Spiegel, link)
See: nsa-gchq document (pdf)
And also: Der Spiegel: NSA Put Merkel on List of 122 Targeted Leaders (Intercept, link)
See Statewatch Observatory (June 2013 – ongoing): EU-UK-GCHQ-USA-NSA: Data surveillance