Similar statements were issued by spokesmen across the bourgeois political spectrum in Europe, from the conservative right to the Greens. The EU commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, Viviane Reding, told an audience in Luxembourg that the spy revelations could wreck talks set to begin next week on a US-EU trade agreement.
"Partners do not spy on each other," she said. "We cannot negotiate over a big trans-Atlantic market if there is the slightest doubt that our partners are carrying out spying activities on the offices of our negotiators."
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