* Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions at the start of the working week during* Employees are pressing for higher wages to blunt the effects of inflation, which reached 9.3% in February.
* Germany, which was heavily dependent on Russia for gas before the war in Ukraine, has been particularly hard hit by higher prices as it scrambled for new energy sources, with inflation rates exceeding the euro-area average in recent months.said he would press ahead with reforms in France, dodging a union leader's call to suspend a new pension law that raises the retirement age to 64 amid some of the country's worst street violence in years.
* Weeks of protests over the pension plans became more violent after Macron's government, which lacks a clear majority, pushed the legislation through parliament without a vote.has left some petrol stations short of fuel, also hitting liquefied natural gas terminals, power supply and nuclear reactor maintenance.
Corporations have decided to pay themselves and their shareholders huge increases on top of their piles of money they’ve already have. Relative price increases, are not inflation