{"id":3102,"date":"2026-04-06T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:33:07","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-are-france-and-germany-just-out-to-manage-their-irrelevance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3102\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz: are France and Germany just out to \u2018manage their irrelevance\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

France and Germany have ramped up diplomatic efforts to contain the fallout from an escalating Middle East oil crisis, seeking to project European autonomy and distance themselves from the US-Israeli war on Iran<\/a>.But as the conflict entered its second month, analysts said this was more about damage control than a leadership bid. They said while Berlin<\/a> and Paris<\/a> were at the forefront of calls for de-escalation they had limited room for manoeuvre given their security dependence on Washington.Joint American-Israeli strikes on Iran<\/a> that began on February 28 have killed dozens of senior Iranian officials, including former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> in the first wave.In retaliation, Iran\u2019s missile strikes targeting Gulf countries aligned with the US have had a significant impact on the global energy chain, and it has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> through which roughly 20 per cent of the world\u2019s oil supply travels.<\/p>\n

Oil prices have surged, threatening European economies, as the strait\u2019s daily transits dropped to a small fraction of its baseline of 130 vessels.<\/p>\n

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Iran warns the Middle East could \u2018turn into hell\u2019 as Trump gives Tehran 48 hours to make a deal<\/p>\n

Iran warns the Middle East could \u2018turn into hell\u2019 as Trump gives Tehran 48 hours to make a deal<\/p>\n

Paris and Berlin have condemned Iran\u2019s retaliatory missile strikes and the closure of the strait and refused to join the American military campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and Germany have ramped up diplomatic efforts to contain the fallout from an escalating Middle East oil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[420,1461,3052,36,5,732,65,3049,3051,50,3053,72,30,3050,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-3102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-ding-yifan","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-gulf","16":"tag-international-energy-agency","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-paris","21":"tag-renmin-university","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}