Trade talks with the United States next week will also hold consultations on data protection and privacy rights

July 6 News, according to foreign media reports, EU officials said in Friday, next week with the United States trade negotiations, will also be "data protection and privacy rights" consultations.

But Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission's President, said members must be wary of US intelligence because it endangered national security.

Officials in the European Union were outraged by reports late last week that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had installed eavesdropping devices in the European Union's Washington and New York offices and hacked into the office's computer network. Many European leaders have called for discussions on the NSA's monitoring at the same time as trade talks in Washington next week.

Lithuania, the EU's rotating presidency, said the process would begin with the Monday meeting. "This process will involve EU citizens ' data protection and privacy rights and discuss the scope and content of future meetings," the country said in a statement. ”

A spokesman for the Justice Department said the Obama administration officials attending the meeting would include officials from the Ministry of Justice and the National Intelligence Director.

Mr Barroso said the process was "important for building and strengthening confidence and an essential part of pursuing a very ambitious agreement with the US in the area of trade and investment." ”

However, he added that "intelligence matters are a matter of national security and are outside the EU's mandate and will be discussed by Member States and the United States." ”

Cecilia Mamstrom Cecilia Malmström, the European Union's home affairs commissioner, said the EU would be forced to suspend a deal that would allow U.S. authorities to visit European financial transaction data and air passenger transport information unless the US could prove its respect for EU data security laws.

In a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Minister Napolitano (Janet Napolitano) and deputy Minister of Finance Cohen David S. Cohen's letter, Mamstrom said that "mutual trust and confidence are seriously impaired." ”

Mamstrom will send a team to Washington next week to attend a previously scheduled meeting, including the first review of the Air Passenger information Agreement and the completion of an assessment of the project to visit the European financial transactions data.