GERMANY PERSPECTIVE

Berlin feels the energy crisis contaminating every supermarket shelf. The Local Germany details the transmission mechanism: after weeks of vertiginous fuel price rises, consumer goods prices are beginning to "climb slowly." The article inventories the rising items — an exercise that painfully reminds Germany of its 2022 crisis following Ukraine's invasion. The country that had already restructured its energy supply in emergency fashion to stop relying on Russian gas now finds itself hit by a second shock, this time from the Gulf. German coverage is the most granular in the European pool: it descends to individual product prices, reflecting an economic culture where inflation is a collective trauma inherited from the interwar period.