The United States spied on top politicians in Europe, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from 2012 to 2014 with the help of Danish data cables, Danish and European media reported on Sunday.
As a delegation of 12 Chinese ministers is expected in Berlin for talks with Chancellor Merkel on Monday, an investigation reveals the extent of Chinese espionage in the German political system.
Cyber spies belonging to the Russian hacker group "APT28" are said to have attacked the federal government's sensitive data network. This is what we know so far.
After the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had warned that China was trying to recruit German informants for intelligence services via social media networks, Beijing denied these accusations on Monday.
German prosecutors on Wednesday said they were dropping a case against several Muslim clerics suspected of spying for Turkey
due to insufficient evidence and as some were out of reach of law enforcers.
A Swiss man accused of spying on
German tax officials admitted to the espionage operation on Thursday, and told a court he acted out of "patriotism" as well as for profit.
A Swiss man accused of spying on German officials who were hunting tax cheats goes on trial in Frankfurt on Wednesday, in a convoluted case that has strained ties between Bern and Berlin.
A Swiss spy allegedly monitoring German finance officials who hunt cross-border tax cheats also ran a mole in a state finance ministry office, media reports said on Thursday.
A Swiss MP has confirmed that the spy who was arrested in Germany last week was working for the Swiss federal intelligence service (FIS) at the time of his surveillance activities.
Berlin on Tuesday asked the Swiss ambassador to clarify the case of an alleged Swiss spy suspected of monitoring German finance investigators who pursue cross-border tax cheats.
Two major public broadcasters reported on Friday that a man believed to be a Turkish agent spied on two Kurdish functionaries and plotted to murder them.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said Russia could try to influence Germany's general elections next year through cyber attacks or disinformation campaigns,
A German immigration official has been arrested and charged with espionage for an Indian secret service for allegedly spying on members of the Sikh religion, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A Munich court Thursday sentenced a former German intelligence agent to eight years in jail for spying for both the CIA and the Russian secret service, German media reported.
The government has been accused of lying to the Bundestag (German parliament) after it emerged last week that Chancellor Angela Merkel's office knew German spies were conducting economic espionage on behalf of the Americans.
Russia is busily enlarging its spying network in Europe along the former Soviet KGB model because of the Ukraine crisis, Germany's domestic intelligence chief warns.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden accepted the Stuttgart Peace Prize and called on the public to keep fighting for peace in a speech via video uplink on Sunday.
UPDATE: Germany's expulsion of the CIA station chief in Berlin in a spy row with the United States has found widespread support in the country. But what happens now?
UPDATE: Germany has called on the United States to come clean and stop all spying activities against it, following the expulsion of the US spy chief in Berlin on Thursday.
UPDATE: Germany has asked the United States' spy station chief in Berlin to leave the country in retaliation for the latest espionage scandal, marking a new low in recent relations between the countries.
UPDATE: Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, described US spying in the country as “stupid” on Wednesday night, as the government sharpened its tone towards the United States.
UPDATE: The Attorney General’s Office confirmed on Wednesday they were investigating a further case of espionage in Germany, allegedly involving a US agent who was reportedly an army officer at Germany's Ministry of Defence.
