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World Business Report: First broadcast 04/10/2022 14:32 GMT : EU opposes German energy plan

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EU opposes German energy plan

First broadcast 04/10/2022 14:32 GMT 

First broadcast 04/10/2022 14:32 GMT : EU opposes German energy plan

BBC World Service - World Business Report, EU opposes German energy plan

EU leaders say German Energy support plan threatens European unity.

EU leaders have voiced opposition to Germany's $200 billion energy support plan saying it threatens European unity.

EU Leaders have told the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz his $200 billion dollars energy support plan for businesses and households threatens European unity. We hear from Lundquist Neubauer from energy price comparison website, Verivox, who tells us how it's affecting customers, and Chief Economist at Germany's Berenberg Bank Holger Schmieding tells us how it's playing out politically.

We get the latest from Pakistan, which is facing a health emergency as hundreds of thousands of people live in unsanitary conditions with no clean drinking water after floods devastated the country. Ayesha Salma, Group Head of the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund tells us what the situation is like there on the ground.

How would you like to work on a remote island in the Antarctic? We speak to Lucy Bruzzone, who is doing just that with 3 others, when they travel south for 5 months to sort mail and count penguins in temperatures as low as -30C.

FILE PHOTO: Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

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