Robert Habeck, the German economy minister, said Germany still had access to natural gas after Gazprom’s restrictions, but it would be more costly. Gas prices have jumped about 35 percent this week, reaching 131 euros a megawatt-hour on the TTF exchange Thursday. Gas is reaching Germany, but the amounts need to be bought on the open market and it will be more expensive, he said in a public appeal posted to Instagram late Wednesday. Gas supplies through a key pipeline to Germany by 60 percent, a day after announcing a 40 percent reduction. Gazprom said the cuts were necessary because a turbine for a compressor station in northwestern Russia was sent for repairs and hadn’t returned in time. But Mr. . . .
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