France and Germany call for espionage accords

“A rule of good conduct is that you don’t bug the portable phones of people you meet regularly at international summits,” Hollande told reporters,

Angela Merkel: mobile phone may have been hacked

European leaders have condemned the reported U.S. hacking of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone and said they will seek trans-Atlantic accords on espionage practices.

Merkel and French President Francois Hollande spearheaded calls for closer cooperation among secret services, trying to move past the dismay provoked by this week’s revelations of U.S. eavesdropping in Germany and France.

“A rule of good conduct is that you don’t bug the portable phones of people you ...