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English to Swedish: What Spooks Europeans General field: Other
Source text - English IN GEORGE ORWELL’S “1984”, Room 101 is where prisoners are confronted with their worst fear.
Finding Europeans’ prevailing phobia is trickier: what spooks voters in one bit of the continent (asylum-seekers! deficits! Russia!) may be of scant concern to those on the other end.
Covid-19 is one contender, as it has made life dull from Dublin to Dubrovnik and beyond. Another is the continent’s ongoing energy crisis.
Surging natural-gas prices are sending heating bills soaring, soaking up the cash Europeans have saved while moping around at home for two years.
It is a crisis so all-encompassing that all parts of the EU will have to face up to their deepest apprehensions.
As with most nightmares, the origins of the power crunch are partly clear and partly mysterious.
Europe went into the winter season with low stocks of natural gas, which is used for heating homes and generating electricity.
Shrinking domestic energy production in places like the Netherlands, wimpy breezes that failed to spin wind turbines as much as hoped, booming Asian demand sucking gas eastwards, and maintenance trouble at French nuclear plants have coalesced into a shortage few saw coming.
When Russia, whence gas pipelines tend to depart, did not rush to help with additional supply, prices spiked.
The average European household faces electricity and gas bills of €1,850 ($2,100) in 2022, up from €1,200 in 2020, according to Bank of America.
Fears of winter power cuts have been forestalled by a bout of unseasonably warm weather—for now.
Translation - Swedish I George Orwell´s "1984" tvingas fångarna konfrontera sin innersta rädsla i rum 101.
Att ta reda på vad som skrämmer europeer mest idag är svårare: det som förskräcker väljarna i en del av kontinenten (asylsökare! budgetunderskott! Ryssland!) kan vara av ringa intresse i en annan del.
Covid-19 är ett förslag, eftersom det har gjort livet tråkigare överallt, från Dublin till Dubrovnik.
Ett annat är kontinentens pågående energikris. Ökande priser på naturgas gör att värmekostnaderna stiger snabbt och suger upp alla pengar som europeerna har sparat genom att sitta hemma och uggla i två år.
Det är en så vitt omfamnande kris att hela EU måste börja diskutera sina grundläggande problem.
Precis som i de flesta mardrömmar är en del av orsakerna till energikrisen uppenbara, och en del svårbegripliga.
När vintern kom hade Europa låga lager av naturgas, som används för uppvärmning och för att producera elektricitet. Minskad inhemsk energiproduktion i bl.a Nederländerna, svaga vindar som inte satte fart på vindkraftverken så mycket som man hoppats, ständigt ökande efterfrågan från Asien som suger gasen österut, och underhållsproblem vid de franska kärnkraftverken har tillsamman skapat en underskott som få förutsett.
När sedan Ryssland – varifrån gasledningarna utgår – inte gjorde sig någon brådska med extra leveranser, sköt priset i höjden.
Ett genomsnittligt europeiskt hushåll kan vänta sig el och gas räkningar på 1850 Euro, ($2,100) under 2022, en ökning från 1200 Euro under 2020, enligt Bank of America.
Farhågorna om strömavbrott i vinter har kommit på skam tack vare en period av ovanligt varmt väder för säsongen – hittills.
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