“Asked if France was considering any form of reprisals against the United States over the NSA’s conduct, government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem played down the possibility. ‘It is up to Foreign Minister Fabius to decide what line we take but I don’t think there is any need for an escalation (of the situation),’ Vallaud-Belkacem told France 2 television. ‘We have to have a respectful relationship between partners, between allies. Our confidence in that has been hit but it is after all a very close, individual relationship that we have.’ US officials have acknowledged that the French have a legitimate basis for complaint but described some of the reporting on the NSA program as ‘distorted.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/22/france-tells-u-s-to-stop-snooping-but-cools-dispute/