Investigators says Ukraine may be behind the attack
German gas levy a ‘slap in the face’ for ordinary people
Die Linke calls for weekly protests against a new energy levy that will cost families hundreds of euros extra
each year
Morning light lights the landfall facility of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022
GERMANY’S Left Party is calling for demonstrations every Monday against a new energy levy that will cost households hundreds of euros extra every year.
The party’s parliamentary commissioner for the east Soren Pellman said: “We need Monday demonstrations like [those against] Hartz IV,” referring to weekly demos staged against attacks on unemployment benefit imposed by the then Social Democrat-Greens coalition in 2004.
A levy of 2.419 cents per kilowatt hour has been imposed to help energy companies cope with rising wholesale costs caused by the disruption to Russian gas supplies resulting from the invasion of Ukraine and retaliatory sanctions.
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