Thus Der Spiegel today. “A year after revelations of the NSA’s wide scale spying activities first emerged, the arrest of an employee at the German foreign intelligence service, suspected of being a double agent, is testing the limits of Berlin’s patience with Washington,” elaborates the newspaper. The biggest surprise is that it is the Americans, not the Russians, who are at the center of the latest spying scandal to strike Germany. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is thus annoyed. “If the allegations are true, it would be for me a clear contradiction as to what I consider to be trusting cooperation between agencies and partners.” When it transpired last year that the National Security Agency had even monitored her own phone, she started wondering about the trusting cooperation, but now she is getting angry. The German government is expected to react sooner or later. The scandal might finally catapult the matter to the top of the agenda, concludes the article. The newspaper leaves it at that, but it is clear well in advance that little could be achieved by retaliation of any sort. Cooperation between Germany and America will surely continue even without trust. After all, Europe remains an American protectorate.