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Cost of living crisis

The soaring cost of food and energy that is affecting people across the globe.

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Olaf Scholz with fellow SPD lawmaker Wiebke Papenbrock

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A person holds several euro notes

Scholz tells Germans 'stick together' amid price spike

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