👈 Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany, on the Islamic Republic: You can’t compensate the 100-dollar price of oil in Germany with subsidies.

Politics must be honest enough to tell this to people. We can’t do that.

But what we can do, for example, is to do everything we can — together with our European partners — to help bring an end to the war in Iran and ensure that the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.

That’s what we’re addressing. And reopening the Strait of Hormuz would mean that we would immediately see lower prices in energy markets, including here in Germany. ✅