MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of Washington’s allies is unacceptable, the EU Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, who used to serve as French finance minister, said Tuesday.
"I strongly condemn NSA wiretapping, and formally request the summary. Relations between allies must be based on trust," Moscovici said on Twitter.
Earlier in June, the WikiLeaks website published a series of NSA documents, revealing that the agency had spied on the last three French presidents, including incumbent Francois Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac.
On Monday, more documents were released, demonstrating that the US surveillance agency spied on every major French company over 13 years.
In April, German media reported that the country’s security agency had been spying on European citizens at the request of the NSA.
The US security agency has been under international scrutiny, after its national and global surveillance practices were revealed by the agency's former contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.
