The German Foreign Ministry has summoned the US ambassador in the wake of allegations that American intelligence may have targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.

The German government said Chancellor Angela Merkel has called Barack Obama after receiving information that US intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone.

German chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Greece next week for the first time since the debt crisis erupted to meet the country’s prime minister — who has warned that Athens will run out of money at the end of November if it does not receive the next part of its bailout loans.

German chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Greece next week for the first time since the debt crisis erupted to meet the country’s prime minister – who warned today that Athens will run out of money at the end of November if it does not receive the next part of its bailout loans.

Angela Merkel’s coalition seemed dangerously close to rupture when her Free Democrat (FDP) partners defied the chancellor and backed an opposition candidate for the German presidency, centre-right coalition sources admitted.

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek backing from German lawmakers to bolster the euro bailout fund on the same day she heads to a European summit as banks joust with leaders over the size of losses they take on Greek bonds.

GERMANY and France have begun working on a joint package to stem the eurozone debt crisis, but it will not be a “miracle cure” for the bloc’s ills, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said yesterday.

OFFICIALS from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition sent a tough message to Greece yesterday that it might have to leave the eurozone if it fails to meet conditions for its bailout.

GERMANY is worried the security of its new €1.6 billion intelligence agency headquarters has been compromised, after blueprints of the hi-tech building mysteriously disappeared.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has had surgery on her knee and is recovering well, her spokesman says.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel today denied that she had told French President Nicolas Sarkozy her country planned to evacuate its own illegal immigrant camps.