private health care do during the pandemic and how are they doing now? i have got the global boss of bupa talking covid, staff, brexit and the future. wherever you arejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and warm welcome to the show. you know, it has been a record breaking few weeks for temperatures in europe. wildfires have raged across mediterranean countries like spain, portugal, italy and greece. here in the uk, we had our hottest ever day on record. and yet, it is the coming winter that has been focusing minds, in particular how western europe and other parts of the world are going to keep warm amid the rising oil and gas crisis? following the russian invasion of ukraine and heavy sanctions on russia s oil and gas exports, which are to come in at the end of the year. president biden in the last few weeks was in saudi arabia and the middle east. while he didn t secure more oilfrom the country many think trying to do so was one of the reason for his vis
wherever you arejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and warm welcome to the show. you know, it has been a record breaking few weeks for temperatures in europe. wildfires have raged across mediterranean countries like spain, portugal, italy and greece. here in the uk, we had our hottest ever day on record. and yet, it is the coming winter that has been focusing minds, in particular how western europe and other parts of the world are going to keep warm amid the rising oil and gas crisis? following the russian invasion of ukraine and heavy sanctions on russia s oil and gas exports, which are to come in at the end of the year. president biden in the last few weeks was in saudi arabia and the middle east. while he didn t secure more oil from the country many think trying to do so was one of the reason for his visit. and in europe, the european commission has set out plans asking countries in the union to cut their gas consumption by 15% until the spring. the p
more stable feeling, what is going on in the future, i m not really afraid that i have to close my company or lay off people. florian bockermann catching us up on just how one small brewery in germany s heartland managed to get through the energy shock. so, what do european households face this winter? well, to find out, i sat down with the big boss of vaasaett. it monitors the cost of energy bills for every european country, including here in the uk. and their numbers are trusted as the official ones for the industry, and are used when countries put together their energy policy. philip lewis, a real pleasure having you on the show. and philip, let me start with this, because i m just wondering, how extraordinary was the situation that we were looking at last year for european households? absolutely unprecedented. if you look at the amount of price rises, we saw countries typically across europe on average increasing by, or doubling, or in some cases, tripling their prices for ener
every single government, including here in the uk, announced measures to help their people deal with the bigger energy bills that were due to hit the doormats all across the continent. the world watched as europe raced to fill its storage capacity for winter. mysterious holes appeared in key pipelines. energy diplomacy was the name of the game. when we spoke to my first guest last year, things had become so challenging for florian bockermann s business a craft beer brewery in munster, germany that he feared he may have to let people go, or even close the whole thing down. a year on, we wanted to know how things had gone. so, one year ago, the situation was very bad. so, we got bills coming in, all prices increased, energy prices, the malt prices, bottling prices everything increased. so we really were worrying about our future. we are a small company, so we really were afraid maybe to close the company, or to lay off people.
there s more stability now the politics which gave us more stable feeling, what is going on in the future, i m not really afraid that i have to close my company or lay off people. florian bockermann catching us up on just how one small brewery in germany s heartland managed to get through the energy shock. so, what do european households face this winter? well, to find out, i sat down with the big boss of vaasaett. it monitors the cost of energy bills for every european country, including here in the uk. and their numbers are trusted as the official ones for the industry, and are used when countries put together their energy policy. philip lewis, a real pleasure having you on the show. and philip, let me start with this, because i m just wondering, how extraordinary was the situation that we were looking at last year for european households? absolutely unprecedented. if you look at the amount of price rises, we saw countries typically across europe