Greece Wants Explanations Over German Wiretaps

The Greek Foreign Ministry said that there are specific rules and ethics between friends, and that Athens expects an instant answer from Germany for its spying activities.

The ministry noted that Germany itself had been subject to US spying and complained to Washington over a similar case involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone.

Greek media reported on Saturday that German intelligence agents had intercepted emails and tapped telephone calls from 195 countries, including Greece.

Reports on the US National Security Agency (NSA)’s tapping of Angela Merkel's phone emerged last year from documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Further revelations by Snowden showed that the NSA also eavesdropped on the phone of Merkel’s predecessor the Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

A spokesman of the German Chancellor issued a statement today according to which although there have been "information channels", that by no means is it indicative of German Intelligence Service BND spying on any of the any specific countries.