German finance minister presses for intervention on energy prices

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2026-04-11

Berlin (dpa) - German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil is continuing to press for state intervention to tackle high energy prices amid wrangling within the coalition government over how to respond to fuel costs driven higher by the Iran war. "The most effective thing right now is intervention in the market. We can see that in other European countries," Klingbeil told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper in remarks published on Saturday. "And I think......

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