The new German government argues that it is entitled to do this because Germany is land-locked

WTF? I am pretty sure that last time I looked, there was the north sea sitting at the northwestern rim of the country. Directly there where the land ends. One might fall in and drown if there were not all the signs reading “Swimming strictly verboten! Es wird scharf geschossen! Der Bundesgeneralbademeister.”. Or similar. Maybe no signs, but definitely the norrth sea. In the northeast the situation is basically the same, just less dramatic because the baltic sea is just knee-deep at its’ deepest point. Whatever, I am positively certain that Germany is not landlocked. I also doubt that the German government really said it was. It’s just too obvious, even for a novice chancellor’s apprentice like Merz.