Maite Mola proposes inspecting commercial, military and police treaties, including NATO

with United States

“It is time that Europe, with a single, clear and forceful voice, asks for responsibilities to the United States for spying upon millions of European citizens and the UE head of states and presidents. It´s also time to rethink commercial, military, and police treaties, including NATO, with a country that has spied on 35 world leaders”.  This was the reaction of the vice president of the European Left Party (ELP), Maite Mola, to the weak responses offered by Angela Merkel and François Hollande, after it has been published that they had been spied upon.

“What are Merkel and Hollande talking about when calling “reliable” and “ally” to a State which government departments have handed over 200 phone numbers of world influential people, including those of the 35 world leaders, to the National Security Agency (NSA) for they to spy on us?” Maite Mola questioned. “What are they thinking about when saying that they are going to propose US a new code of conduct, when they have been spying us on that way… and they would have carried on doing it?”

Maite Mola wondered herself why do these leaders gave such a weak answer and what do they hide behind this soft attitude. At this point the ELP vice President recalled when Snowden said the upsetting of Merkel was much smaller than the need of carry on working with the US intelligence services. She also pointed the revelations made by senior EU security officials, and published by the press, suspecting that Berlin may seek to exploit the crisis to gain admission to, or at least greater co-operation with the “Five Eyes Club”, the intelligence-sharing arrangement among the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The ELP Vice President regretted that we have had to hear from these scandals of high status by the French and German press, as if it were not important enough for the secret services of these countries reveal them.

Maite Mola, denounced that Merkel and Hollande try to redirect the agreements of espionage on behalf of the need to protect us against terrorism, when in fact it is the imperialist foreign policy and interventionist exerted by the United States and Europe that proliferates terrorism, as it has done throughout the Middle East and it is doing now in Syria.

“The best way of protecting us against the terrorism is with pacific politics and political negotiation, not with military interventions in third world countries to plunder their energy resources.”

The leader of ELP also remembers that it was thanks to the revelations of Edward Snowden that citizens around the world have information about the dirty work NSA and the US are doing upon them.