Just how independent is the European Union? Given recent events involving the United States and its European allies, one really must wonder.First, there was the US National Security Agency brazenly tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s private cellphone and, very likely, many more vip’s in Germany, a key US ally and Europe’s most important nation.Washington and the NSA shrugged off this horribly embarrassing incident with the usual “well, everyone does it.”Not true. Imagine the stink if...
