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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Telephone bugs have been discovered at offices used by France, Germany and Britain in the building where European Union leaders are due to hold a summit this week. Sweden's EU ambassador said only a few intelligence services were capable of installing such sophisticated devices, which may have been in action undetected ever since the pink granite EU Council building was inaugurated in 1995. The countries targeted were France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain and Austria. The French newspaper Le Figaro, which broke the story in a brief item in its diplomatic gossip column, accused the United States of being behind the wiretapping, revealed amid acute transatlantic tension over looming war in Iraq. But Dominique-Georges Marro, head of the EU Council press service, told reporters: 'We do not know who is behind it. I don't know who was on the other end of the line...'
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