BRUSSELS: European security experts are set to meet their United States (US) counterparts in Washington next week as European Union (EU) nations, incensed by reports of US snooping, link negotiations on a mega EU-US trade deal with talks on intelligence-swapping.

Italy and France, meanwhile, were the latest EU states to turn down an asylum request from ex US intelligence ana-lyst Edward Snowden, after Poland, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Ireland and Spain refused to offer a safe haven.

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