Airbus says it plans to complain to German authorities over reports of spying. <br /><br /> The aviation giant claims Berlin’s foreign intelligence agency helped America to spy on it and other European companies. <br /><br /> Der Spiegel reports that officials of Germany’s BND service indirectly helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) over a 10 year period.<br /><br /> It is claimed that BND officials passed internet addresses and mobile phone numbers to the NSA.<br /><br /> “We’ve asked the government for more information,” said an Airbus spokesman in Germany.<br /><br /> “We will launch a complaint against an unknown person on suspicion of industrial espionage.”<br /><br /> The reports have caused alarm in Germany, where security is a sensitive issue. <br /><br /> The country’s Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has denied that he lied to parliament about intelligence cooperation with US spy agencies.<br /><br /> When allegations emerged in 2013 that America had bugged Merkel’s mobile phone, she said that spying
