‘A RECESSION WORSE THAN ANY OTHER’ THE PAINFUL PROSPECT OF CHANGING TO LIFE WITHOUT RUSSIAN GAS
In Germany, they call it “Day X”. Businesses up and down the land are making contingency plans for what is seen as a growing likelihood that Russian gas will stop flowing into Europe’s biggest economy.
“It would be a disaster – one which would have seemed almost un-thinkable just two months ago, but which right now feels like a very realistic prospect,” the owner of a hi-tech mechanical engineering company that produces everything from battery cases for electric cars to clutch systems for trains.
He did not want to be named, or for his company to be
