Angela Merkel, German chancellor, yesterday warned that the spying scandal was putting pressure on talks to forge an EU-US trade pact, the clearest sign yet of the affair’s impact on economic ties.
Speaking before the German parliament, Ms Merkel urged Washington to provide “a clarification” of its alleged mass surveillance as “a basis for building new transatlantic trust”.
In her toughest words on the scandal so far, the chancellor said: “The relationship with the US and the negotiation of a transatlantic free trade agreement are currently, without doubt, being put to the test by the accusations that have been aired against the US about the gathering of millions of bits of data.”
您已阅读53%（687字），剩余47%（620字）包含更多重要信息，订阅以继续探索完整内容，并享受更多专属服务。