Currently, Germany is being propped up by electricity from other nations, among those Sweden, which has led to record prices.
And due to the fiction of a market called "European power market", prices here are so high it is ruining the economy of many households: you kind of need power when it's -10F outdoors (as it is here at the time of writing).
I call it market fiction above because it's not a real market, but a managed corporate monstrosity where capitalists and the states own the power system together, and have used EU-wide agreements to prevent a national government to care for their own people first and foremost.
If you want a short-hand metaphor for the EU, it's this:
Trying to utilise the tragedy of the commons as productive, profitable and progressive policy.
Feb 13
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