Scale of Europe’s Energy Turmoil Exposed in Frenzied Crisis Week

Nord Stream cutoff has increased the need for action

Power lines near Lttow-Valluhn, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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European ministers sounded defiant as they met in Brussels to deliberate plans aimed at halting the spiral in energy prices.

“We will prevail,” European Union Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson told reporters, even with “a difficult winter ahead of us.”