CDU: Germany Cannot Serve As Mediator In Russo-Ukrainian War

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The chairman of Germany’s conservative CDU party and opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, cannot imagine Germany playing a mediating role in the Russian war against Ukraine.

Regardless of who would be in charge, he said, “the Federal Republic of Germany has no mediating role in this conflict.” He told the German Press Agency: “We stand together with Europe on the side of Ukraine and are therefore not neutral in this conflict.” Merz had been asked if he could imagine that former chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, could intervene to bring the war to an end.

The CDU leader accused Germany’s coalition government of prolonging the war through its hesitant action in supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine. “It still applies that the Federal Republic of Germany could have done more earlier. The government should have quickly done what the German Bundestag decided on 28 April, namely to deliver heavy equipment on a larger scale,” said Merz.

Even now, he stressed, not everything that Germany could contribute was being delivered. “In this respect, we are still not helping Ukraine to the extent that is necessary. And that is prolonging this brutal war, which is now becoming a gruelling war of attrition with hundreds of victims every day,” Merz said.

 

[Mini Maul]

Germany need Russian oil to my knowledge still and when they don't need it, then they are a part of NATO so they can and will never be a neutral party to be a bridge between both sides.
I never understood why them and France ever thought they could be the mediator?