Those who profit from US security must accept its spying, argues Dr Azmanova in this week’s Financial Times: Chancellor’s Merkel’s protestations about the age-old and well-known practice of eavesdropping on the private communications of friendly leaders is hypocritical, and EU Commission officials’ putting to question the trans-Altantic bond on account of violations of the right to privacy is simply wreckless politics.
The article can be found online via the Financial Times website at . http://www.ft.com.chain.kent.ac.uk/cms/s/0/dccaf192-4180-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2jonEfsM2 and as a download at http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/documents/Azmanova_FT_5%20Nov2013comment.pdf
Further information about Dr Azmanova is available on her homepage at http://www.kent.ac.uk/brussels/staff/profiles/brussels/azmanova.html