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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