BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met trade union and employers association leaders on Monday for the first of a series of meetings aimed at tackling what he called a “historic” cost of living crisis caused by spiraling energy prices. Like governments across Europe, Berlin is under pressure to deal with soaring prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to balance the need to meet workers’ demands for payrises without causing inflation to spiral even further. With the meetings at the chancellery, Scholz said he was reviving the “concerted action” that was established…