Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (L) welcomes Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Lough Erne golf resort where the G8 summit is taking place in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Yves Herman
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended government monitoring of Internet communications on Monday, saying a day before President Barack Obama visits Berlin that Washington's cyber-snooping had helped prevent attacks on German soil.
In an interview with broadcaster RTL, Merkel said she would ask Obama for details on the covert U.S. surveillance programme, code named PRISM, that has outraged Germans, with one politician likening U.S. tactics to those of the East German Stasi.
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