Can Germany’s economy minister keep the lights on this winter?

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Memories of postwar squalor revived by Vladimir Putin’s shutting down of Nord Stream 1 pipelineThat Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy minister in his recent, pre-ministerial life, wrote a children’s book in which a girl called Emily experiences “how exciting a night-time power cut can be” may yet come back to haunt him.These days, Habeck is charged with the daunting task of ensuring that the lights do not go out in for real in Europe’s largest economy. And even if Germans have been hoarding candles and camping stoves, just as not so long ago they were doing with toilet paper and pas ...

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