[tuukkah]

The German goverment went as far as nationalising Uniper, the big gas and energy company. Now, Russia has made an even more destructive move and seized Uniper's and Fortum's Russian subsidiaries. (Fortum lost billions in both cases.)

[lxm]

Was there an alternative to Uniper’s nationalization?

It was insolvent and forced into fixed price deliveries that it had to procure through suddenly expensive spot market.

[tuukkah]

The government could have relaxed the fixed prices, and perhaps they did that anyway?

[lxm]

They did

> Germany sets the gas levy that would allow Uniper and its rivals to pass on 90% of spiralling gas prices to customers.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-russian-gas-cris...