The Datagate impacts on European politics and on relations between the European countries and the United States . The news of the monitoring of the phone 's Chancellor Angela Merkel by the U.S. National Security Agency sheds new light on the activities of U.S. intelligence and is likely to open new diplomatic scenarios , as well as the premier German communications of other 35 world leaders would be controlled . The first comments from European leaders stress the importance of a relationship of trust between the United States and the European Union and raise attention to the weight that a drop of trust on the cooperation in the field of counter-terrorism and economic conditions. The ongoing negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Europe are back at the center of the debate on the occasion of the revelations of Snowden . The treaties , which some may have a strong impact on European public services , have been widely criticized by many analysts of the old continent and it is not inconceivable that Europe can play the card of the scandal Datagate to gain more negotiating power and obtain the safeguards advocated by European industry .
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