Alongside the outrage, there is also a certain gratitude towards Snowden in some quarters for providing information about what has been going on, including a surprisingly broad spectrum of politicians are calling for him to be offered political asylum
Cameron and Merkel agree that the EU needs to be reformed, but as Cameron looks to deconstruct the European Commission amongst other parts of the union, Merkel is looking to the EU to legitimise German leadership.
Search and technology giant Google has been fined €145,000 by the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for illegally accessing and recording data from unencrypted WiFi networks in the country with its Street View vehicles.
NATO troops from the US arrived in Turkey on Friday to implement Patriot missile defence batteries on the border with Syria to protect Turkish towns after the Syrian army launched a series of Scud missiles against rebel held towns near the Turkish border.
Bioethicists, human rights advocates and criminal lawyers are watching another outbreak of the “circumcision wars”, after yesterday’s decision by a provincial court in Cologne, Germany, that circumcision of male infants is illegal.