After weeks of wrangling, the German government and the country’s federal states have agreed on how to finance a huge package of emergency relief measures to soften the impact of soaring inflation and high energy bills. After a meeting of state and federal leaders on Wednesday, it was announced that the states would contribute to measures such as an extension of the housing allowance, but will also receive more money from the federal government for local transport and the accommodation of refugees. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the German federal and state governments were coming together to fig…