According to Belgium's De Standaard, the incident is unusual for relations between two EU member states and might result in a diplomatic raw.
Earlier in the week, Belgium's National Security Council discussed a confidential report of the Belgian federal prosecutor general, which concluded that the GCHQ had cracked Belgium's largest telecommunications company Proximus Group, formerly known as Belgacom Group in 2013.
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According to experts, the interception of Belgacom clients' communications might have been carried out by the Network Analysis Centre, a GCHQ division, and authorized at the senior governmental level. Belgacom's clients, in particular, included the European Commission, the European Council, and the European Parliament.
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