German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reason to be mad. During a telephone conversation with US President Barack Obama last week, Ms Merkel bluntly told him that if indeed US intelligence agents had tapped her phone, it would be a “serious breach of trust.”

The chancellor was not done. At the European Union summit in Brussels several days later, she remarked, “Spying on friends, that’s just not done.”

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