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Do Friends Spy on Friends? What We Have Learned From the “Summer of Snowden”

November 20, 2013

Tension is high between the U.S. and its European allies over revelations about NSA spying. Former Wilson Center Scholar Georg Mascolo is a former Editor-in-Chief of the German news weekly Der Spiegel. He recently met with Edward Snowden and has also co-authored an article about the need to rebuild trust between allies. We asked him to provide CONTEXT on the situation during his recent visit to the Wilson Center. 

Georg Mascolo was a Public Policy Scholar with the Wilson Center's Global Europe Program and is now a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a journalist and former Editor-In-Chief of Der Spiegel and has written about surveillance since 1990.

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Georg Mascolo

Global Fellow;
Former Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel
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The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, US-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues: digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance. We also examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our program activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media.  Read more