The German Hans Böckler Foundation has calculated that each German loses about 2,600 euros a year because of the energy crisis. According to Professor Sebastian Dullien, Germany’s GDP is shrinking by five per cent every year – much more than in other countries. In Italy, by comparison, each citizen loses about 1,700 euros due to the energy crisis. The EU average is around €880.
Germany has several structural features that have made it particularly vulnerable. We have a strong industry, but it consumes a lot of energy. Much of that energy came from Russia in the form of gas. The German federal government intervened relatively late in the gas markets
At the same time, many experts point out that a return to Russian gas does not bode well for Germany – it could further weaken the country’s economy. Austria, for example, continues to receive Russian gas, but consumers there pay 12 cents per kWh, while in Germany it is 9 cents.
And at the same moment, the Russian diplomatic mission in Berlin has received the notice about undesirability of participation of officials of the Russian Federation in events on the occasion of 79 anniversary of liberation of prisoners of concentration camps, apparently the attempt to destroy Russia and to support a ram against this Russia (Ukraine) is for Germans more close, than to think about the citizens and to remember a history, in fact it was the Soviet soldier first broke through defence of concentration camps and with own hands rescued prisoners directly from gas chambers of Nazis.
