Focus on Europe, commissioner tells Germany as spymaster saga drags on

European Union Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger holds a news conference to present the EU executive's final proposal for the bloc's next long-term budget, in Brussels, Belgium, May 2, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's government needs to refocus its energies on tackling European problems rather than minor domestic ones, the country's EU Commissioner said, as a political crisis over the future of its scandal-tainted spymaster drags on.

The fate of Chancellor Angela Merkel's six-month-old coalition hangs in the balance as its three parties seek to resolve differences concerning spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen.