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Rising energy crisis affecting daily life in Europe

Preparing for the possibility that Russia will fully cut off gas supplies to the EU in retaliation to Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, governments are coming up with measures to rein in runaway bills and give some relief to anxious citizens.

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The Vatter bakery chain has 35 stores and 430 employees in the northern state of Lower Saxony. Eckehard Vatter said the family business has weathered every crisis since 1955, but things have never been as bad as they are now. Skyrocketing energy prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are fueling panic among many German small- and medium-sized enterprises. On Wednesday, hundreds of bakery owners and employees protested in downtown Hanover to draw attention to their worsening situation.