Obama's Choice

The latest allegations of US spying in Germany pose a serious threat to the German-American relations, warns Annette Heuser, Executive Director of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington, DC.

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The latest allegations of US spying in Germany have unleashed a new bout of anger in Berlin against Washington. Bertelsmann Foundation Executive Director Annette Heuser writes: This time, if the Obama administration does not meet Berlin's expectations for clarification of and an end to such intelligence activities, the whole of German-American relations and, consequently, the trans-Atlantic partnership are jeopardized.

A new wave of spy allegations is further damaging German-American relations and now threatens to radically alter the mainstay of the entire trans-Atlantic partnership.

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