Germany's intelligence service has been spying on top officials in France and at the European Commission for the US National Security Agency - according to the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (sood-doi-tscha tz-eye-tung).
It claims phones were tapped within the office of the French president, the French foreign ministry and the EU Commission in Brussels under a deal agreed in 2002.
Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.
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