Concluding its own investigation into leaks from former U.S. data analyst Edward Snowden over government spying, an overwhelming majority of [European] lawmakers voted in favour of a resolution warning that the world's biggest trade deal "could be endangered" unless EU countries stopped such surveillance.
While the snooping vote was only a symbolic warning shot, both the European Parliament and U.S. Congress must sign off the U.S.-EU free trade deal for it to become law, meaning their threats carry some weight.
"It's not enough to point the finger at the United States. European states were also involved," Jan Philipp Albrecht, a German lawmaker, told Reuters, referring to the alleged involvement of British and other intelligence services in surveillance.
Reuters
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