Perhaps it does not surprise knowing that United States, obsessed by homeland security, has been spying people “private life”. Nevertheless, almost nobody would have thought Washington ready to guard some of the most important European diplomatic offices on US land. Still, according to the likely most wanted person in America, United States would have put to use an intense espionage against European institution and delegation offices, and some EU members embassies would have been put under an uninterrupted control. Such revelations have undoubtedly shaken EU-US relationship, causing scorn in the Old Continent (whose leaders are threatening to desert the project for an Euro-American free trade area) end embarrassment overseas.

However, even more noise has been caused by the rumour according to which there would be at least six European countries involved in the data traffic exchange, rumour that has brought cold war memories to mind. Yet 1989 it is history. In any case, also the Europeans have been hit by those “embarrassment winds” and have turned the dispute volume down. Concrete evidences won’t be certainly founded around the corner, but the media fuss created by such revelations leaded to the first denials form those governments directly involved.

Independently from any future revelations, the Datagate hurricane seems constantly ready to strike the two shores of the Atlantic Ocean again. 

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