Handelsblatt Live : Exclusively for subscribers: Live discussion on the weekend title “World Energy Crisis”

The theme of this week’s weekend title is: “World Energy Crisis – Russia’s War Leads Directly to a World Economic Crisis via Rising Energy Prices”. Here are some excerpts:

• Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff speaks of a “watershed” for the global economy: “However and whenever this terrible war ends, we will see a strong and sustained increase in energy prices and a sensitive weakening of growth.”
• Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, says the war and its aftermath are causing an “energy shock”, particularly for Europe.
• The secretary general of the oil production cartel Opec, Mohamma Sanusi Barkindo, says: “We may be sleepwalking into a global catastrophe.”