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Germany's Russian Energy Shock

The war in Ukraine has suddenly shattered the political foundations of Germany’s longstanding energy partnership with Russia. But given today’s geopolitical complexities and the demands of the energy transition, it would not be surprising if pressure to rekindle the relationship eventually reemerges.

LONDON – Since the Ukraine war began in late February, Europe has faced a reckoning over an energy relationship with Russia that originated in the Soviet era. Nowhere has the shock been more profound than in Germany.

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