The government of Berlin approved new measures to rein in the activities of BND agency after its scandalous support to NSA surveillance activity. The German intelligence will likely continue to gather intelligence from EU governments and organizations, but its operation will be limited by law to information to recognize and confront threats to internal or external security The reforms still have to be approved by the German parliament, it represents a response of the Government to the findings of an investigation it has launched to clarify if BND and the NSA spied on its European allies.”]
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