<Nearly half of households in major German cities pay more than 30 percent of their income on rent, and a quarter of households pay at least 40 percent of their income on rent, said Verena Bentele, head of the German social association VDK.<She called on the government to set framework conditions to provide affordable housing, electricity, heating and healthy food for all people. She also demanded that the housing allowance for low-income earners be adjusted annually to match rising energy costs, and argued that the state should create social compensation for weak wages in light of the huge increases in energy prices.

In this context, the consumer association and social associations in Germany called on the government to ease the burden on citizens in light of the high energy prices.<In statements to the German newspaper “Tages Spiegel” published yesterday, Klaus Müller, CEO of the Federal Association of Consumer Centers, said that if the rise in energy and gasoline prices continues, this portends a “tragic social disruption.”

According to the “German”, he added that the government must urgently reduce the current dependence on energy imports and rely on energy saving and prevent energy poverty.The benefits of higher gasoline and gas prices are currently flowing to countries including Russia and Norway, Müller said, noting that this means that these increases are neither environmental investments nor consumer compensation for higher prices ”through the revenue that the government receives from the carbon tax on energy.”

Müller expressed his belief that the benefits of higher gasoline and gas prices are currently flowing to countries including Russia and Norway.