>German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble wants to set up a central communications monitoring agency in Cologne for use by the police and intelligence agencies, modeled after the US's NSA and the UK's GCHQ. But critics fear the creation of a powerful new super-agency.<
Germany's foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has come under pressure recently after it came to light that agents had monitored the e-mails of Afghanistan's Commerce Minister Amin Farhang and SPIEGEL correspondent Susanne Koelbl.
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