️🇮🇪🇪🇺🇮🇷 Euronews: Ireland's finance minister, Simon Harris, rejected President Donald Trump's claim that the Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries are responsible for the global energy crisis, and identified the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as the main cause.

️🇮🇪🇪🇺🇮🇷 Euronews: Ireland's finance minister, Simon Harris, rejected President Donald Trump's claim that the Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries are responsible for the global energy crisis, and identified the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as the main cause.

Harris warned that the escalating conflict in the Middle East is driving up energy prices and called for a diplomatic de-escalation to ease pressure on global markets.

He also said EU finance ministers were considering taxing energy companies that benefit from rising prices, with further discussions likely to take place in October.