Editorial Excerpt | Open your eyes

There is every good reason to take the current crisis [over revelations of US spying on European leaders] and its causes seriously.

There is also reason for Denmark to do everything it can to contribute to finding a way for the trans-Atlantic partnership to move past the situation.

This is why it is so worrisome that Denmark has started by choosing an ostrich-like strategy of sticking its head in the sand. […]

There could be two reasons why the prime minister and the justice minister can guarantee us that they have no reason to believe they have been bugged. First: they might actually know anything at all. […]

Second, they might know far more than they want to tell, because Denmark, just like our close European allies have a wildly complex partnership with US intelligence agencies.  Politiken

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