Merkel laments breakdown of trust in US spy row

July 12, 2014 22:22

Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented today the breakdown in trust between Germany and the United States amid a spying row that saw the CIA chief in Berlin expelled from the country.

"The thing we always have to keep in mind when we are working together is if the person across the table is possibly working at the same time for someone else, that for me isn't a trusting relationship," she told German ZDF television in a pre-recorded interview.

"Here we obviously have different points of view and we need to talk to one another," Merkel said, adding that she had "naturally hoped for a change" in Washington's behaviour.

The US yesterday hinted at displeasure with Germany over its handling of the spying row after the CIA station chief in Berlin was thrown out of the country. White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who previously declined to go into detail about the row because it touched on intelligence matters, offered a window into US thinking.

"Allies with sophisticated intelligence agencies like the United States and Germany understand with some degree of detail exactly what those intelligence relationships and activities entail," Earnest said.

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