Impasse at US-Germany 'no-spying' talks?
Two senior German politicians have urged the United States to concede to Germany's quest for a "no-spying" pact, with one warning that Berlin could consider sanctions against US firms operating in Germany.
German media reports of an impasse at US-German talks to avert spying between allies prompted several senior German politicians on Tuesday to suggest diplomatic and economic pressure on Washington. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (pictured), however, said that the talks were continuing, telling journalists at a Berlin press conference that negotiations remained confidential. Withholding contracts? Stephan Mayer, the new internal affairs spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative parliamentary group, told Reuters on Tuesday her government should consider withholding contracts with US firms that operate in Germany. Mayer said if the talks failed then Germany must contemplate whether "US firms receive government contracts from the German side or public institutions." "The Americans understand one language very well, and that is the language of business," Mayer said, adding that such a deal could not be seen in isolation from current EU-US free-trade negotiations. He also told the newspaper Die Welt that an anti-spying agreement should not amount to a "placebo." Thomas Oppermann, the caucus leader of the center-left Social Democrats, who are Merkel's new coalition partners, said the "failure of the agreement would be unacceptable" and would "change the political character of relations." Talks going nowhere? Last August, Germany announced that Berlin and Washington would negotiate a deal not to spy on each other after revelations about the US' National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance. This was compounded by allegations the US had monitored Merkel's mobile phone and European interest in the claims of the former NSA intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has temporary asylum in Moscow. The Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung quoted a German source close to the 'no-spying' talks as saying: "We're getting nothing." The German public broadcaster NDR jointly reported that German delegation sources had almost lost hope that an agreement would emerge. German conservative caucus leader Michael Grosse-Brömer said he would be "very disappointed if this agreement does not come about." "We must assume that it is not appropriate when friends are spied upon and listened to when the matter does not relate to averting potential terrorist attacks," he said. Veteran Greens party parliamentarian Hans-Christian Ströbele, who met Snowden in Moscow late last year, told the German news agency dpa: "We haven't made any progress because the government has been far too timid in demanding answers from the United States." 'Shared commitment' For months, senior US officials have signaled that Washington would not agree to a blanket pact and refused to comment on claims of US intelligence eavesdropping in Germany, including alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. In Washington earlier on Tuesday, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the negotiations on a mutual spy ban were continuing with Germany Hayden gave little indication that the US government would move substantially towards the German position. "Such consultations will continue among our intelligence services as a part of our shared commitment to strengthen our practical cooperation in a manner that reflects the shared threats we face, the technological environment in which we operate, our close relationship with one another, and our abiding respect for the civil and political rights and privacy interests of our respective citizens," Hayden said. New threats, says de Maiziere Interior Minister de Maiziere at his press conference said Germany faced new threats from international terrorism, requiring all legal measures possible. Speaking after consultations with the heads of Germany's intelligence services, he said 240 radicalized Islamists from Germany had gone to war-torn Syria in the past year. "That is grounds for disquiet because they could come back with combat experience and related international contacts to possibly carry out crimes here," de Maiziere said. Obama to speak on NSA 'soon' Last week, US President Barack Obama phoned Merkel to invite her to Washington in the coming months, hoping to mend fences between the transatlantic allies. The chancellor accepted, although neither side has announced a date. On Tuesday, Obama told reporters he had almost concluded his deliberations on how to rein in NSA activities, in a bid to restore American public confidence following concerns spy agencies were infringing constitutional rights to privacy. "Actually it's getting close. So I'll have plenty to say about that pretty soon," he said. ipj/ph (AFP, Reuters, dpa, AP)
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Caitlin Hayden
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de Maiziere
Lothar_de_Maizière De_Maizière
Interior Minister
de Maiziere
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President
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Tuesday
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NSA
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Tuesday
topic::none type::time type::value
Washington
Washington,_D.C.
topic::none type::entity type::gpe type::gpe2 type::location
Interior Minister
topic::none type::role type::value
Chancellor
topic::none type::role type::value
Reuters
Reuters
topic::media type::entity type::media type::organization
Americans
topic::none type::gpe0-x type::other
EU
European_Union
iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::entity type::igo type::organization type::so
newspaper
topic::none type::role type::value
Die Welt
Die_Welt
topic::media type::entity type::media type::organization
Thomas Oppermann
Thomas_Oppermann
gender::male iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::entity type::person type::politician
Social Democrats
Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany
iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::entity type::organization type::party
August
topic::none type::time type::value
European
topic::none type::loc-x type::other
intelligence contractor
topic::none type::role type::value
Moscow
Moscow
topic::none type::entity type::gpe type::gpe2 type::location
Munich
Munich
topic::none type::entity type::gpe type::gpe2 type::location
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Süddeutsche_Zeitung
topic::media type::entity type::media type::organization
public broadcaster
topic::none type::role type::value
NDR
Norddeutscher_Rundfunk
topic::media type::entity type::media type::organization
conservative caucus leader
topic::none type::role type::value
Michael Grosse-Brömer
Michael_Grosse-Brömer
gender::male iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::entity type::person type::politics_per
Greens
Alliance_90/The_Greens
iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::entity type::organization type::party
party parliamentarian
topic::none type::role type::value
Hans-Christian Ströbele
Hans-Christian_Ströbele
gender::male iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::entity type::person type::politician
news agency
topic::none type::role type::value
dpa
Deutsche_Presse-Agentur
topic::media type::entity type::media type::organization
National Security Council
United_States_National_Security_Council
iptc::11000000 topic::politics type::agency type::entity type::governmental_organisation type::organization
spokeswoman
topic::none type::role type::value
Islamists
iptc::12000000 topic::none topic::religion type::other type::religion-x
Syria
Syria
topic::none type::entity type::gpe type::gpe0 type::location
President
topic::none type::role type::value
American
topic::none type::gpe0-x type::other
ipj/ph (AFP, Reuters, dpa, AP)
topic::none type::footer type::other
Islamism
Russia