Germany, US agree on efforts to rebuild trust

"For us, the NSA affair has not ended yet," said Oppermann after the meeting with Murphy in Berlin. "We agreed to finally put an end to the totally escalated spying programme of the NSA." Both governments are working on an agreement.


American allies in Europe have been in an uproar over media reports that US intelligence agencies have monitored the communications of Merkel and tens of millions of phone calls in France and Spain.

Murphy will visit Berlin Monday and Brussels Tuesday in an attempt to fix the damage done by the surveillance scandal.