Airbus Group is planning to make a complaint to the authorities in Germany following reports that German foreign intelligence agency BND was helping U.S. agencies spy on European firms, it said on Thursday.
An Airbus spokesman in Germany said:
We’ve asked the government for more information
We will launch a complaint against an unknown person on suspicion of industrial espionage
On Wednesday Germany’s interior minister Thomas de Maziere, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, denied that he lied to parliament about German intelligence cooperation with U.S. spy agencies.
