{"id":488833,"date":"2022-05-04T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488833"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:54:07","slug":"germanys-economics-minister-robert-habeck-warns-high-energy-prices-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germanys-economics-minister-robert-habeck-warns-high-energy-prices-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Economics Minister Robert Habeck warns high energy prices to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers and companies in Germany should prepare for a long period of high energy prices, said Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s economic aid package will help, but could not fully mitigate the impact of energy price increases for consumers. &#8220;That is the bitter and hard truth,&#8221; Habeck said after a meeting with associations of small and medium-sized businesses. <\/p>\n<p>The aid package for companies currently includes a loan programme via the state development bank KfW as well as energy cost subsidies. Under the scheme, some 4,000 companies are eligible for direct energy subsidies, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers and companies in Germany should prepare for a long period of high energy prices, said Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck on Monday. The government&#8217;s economic aid package will help, but could not fully mitigate the impact of energy price increases for consumers. &#8220;That is the bitter and hard truth,&#8221; Habeck said after a meeting with associations of small and medium-sized businesses. The aid package for companies currently includes a loan programme via the state development bank KfW as well as energy cost subsidies. Under the scheme, some 4,000 companies are eligible for direct energy subsidies, Xinhua news agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}