German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger speaks during a session of the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament in Berlin, about a neo-Nazi group that had been on a nationwide ten-year killing spree, November 22, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's justice minister has written to two British ministers demanding to know to what extent a British spy agency targeted German citizens in a large-scale data trawling programme that has upset Berlin.
But Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman quickly dismissed talk of a rift between Britain and Germany and said he did not expect the issue to come up at a European Union summit this week when Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet.
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