{"id":18397,"date":"2026-04-25T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:48:54","slug":"macron-reaffirms-efforts-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-as-totalenergies-warns-of-energy-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/macron-reaffirms-efforts-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-as-totalenergies-warns-of-energy-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron reaffirms efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz, as TotalEnergies warns of energy shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Arab-News.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Arab-News.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>04.25.2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Macron reaffirms efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz, as TotalEnergies warns of energy shortages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ATHENS: French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated \u200con Saturday that he was focused on efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a day after the head of TotalEnergies warned of global energy shortages if the Iran war continues for months. Macron, speaking at a news conference in Athens alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said panic caused by geopolitical uncertainty can in itself lead to shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to achieve a full reopening in the coming days and weeks, in accordance with \u200cinternational law, \u200cguaranteeing freedom of navigation without tolls on \u200cthe \u2060Strait of Hormuz. Then \u2060things can gradually return to normal,\u201d Macron said. TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne pressed on Friday for the reopening of the strait, through which about a fifth of the globe\u2019s oil and gas supply normally flows. Movement through the strait, which is also a key transport route for \u2060goods including fertilizers and pharmaceuticals, has been choked \u200cdue to the US-Israeli \u200cwar with Iran, as Iran has seized container ships and \u200cthe United States has mounted a blockade on Iranian \u200cports. \u201cIf it lasts two, three months more, we are entering in a world of scarcity of energy, which Asian countries have already suffered,\u201d Pouyann\u00e9 told the World Policy Conference in Chantilly, \u200coutside Paris. \u201cYou cannot have 20 percent of the oil and gas of the planet being \u2060stranded and \u2060not accessible without major consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen countries have said they are willing to join an international mission led by France and Britain to protect shipping in the strait when conditions permit, even as US President Donald Trump has said he does not need allies\u2019 help. \u201cWe\u2019re all in the same boat, and it\u2019s not a boat we chose, if I may say. We\u2019re victims of geopolitics and we\u2019re victims of this war that started several months ago,\u201d Macron said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Lisez l&rsquo;article sur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2641243\/amp\">Arab News.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.25.2026 Macron reaffirms efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz, as TotalEnergies warns of energy shortages ATHENS: French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated \u200con Saturday that he was focused on efforts to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-review","tag-157"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}