“In another sign of the vitality of the Berlin-Rome partnership, Italy, Germany and Belgium co-hosted a pre-summit gathering of 19 member states. The Italian prime minister’s office, the Palazzo Chigi, said the group discussed initiatives needed to “relaunch Europe’s industry”, including a review of the emissions trading system, the EU’s carbon pricing system.”
Yeah sure, please kill the one good system that effectively promotes long term decarbonization.
I trust Mario Draghis commentary on this more than Ulf Kristersons.
It’s been very clear for years, that every player on the world stage plays highly protective. Except for EU states. And obviously all the right wing governments are for “less regulation” - meaning more profits for the ultra-wealthy.
I would be interested in what Spain and Portugal think about this, some of the few left leaning governments in the EU. But Draghis comment was also good, being a clear headed professional economist.
Yes
I genuinely expected them to go with the much more exploitable „Made with Europe“ proposal so this is a bit of a surprise. I‘m still not sold on this idea entirely because the EU has a lot of trade obligations with nations around the world who may feel betrayed by this. But it‘s still better than other proposals I guess.
