High-ranking Eurocrats are expected to begin crisis talks on digital surveillance with American officials on Monday.
Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė, whose country will take up the EU presidency today , said she hoped to piggyback discussions on Edward Snowden and the PRISM system on top of trade talks.
The EU and the US will start hammering out the details of a transatlantic trade and investment partnership on Monday, which Eurocrats hope could create thelargest free trade zone in the world.