FRANKFURT ¨C Germany is bleeding cash to keep the lights on. The bill is almost half a trillion dollars, and counting, since the Ukraine war jolted it into an energy crisis nine months ago.
That¡¯s the cumulative scale of the bailouts and plans the Berlin government has launched to prop up the country¡¯s energy system since prices rocketed and it lost access to gas from main supplier Russia, calculations show.
And it may not be enough.
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