The Netherlands, which plans to reintroduce a national tax on airline tickets from 2021, tried to stimulate an EU initiative on carbon pricing and air transport taxation at the Ecofin Council meeting on Tuesday 12 February.
“This is the idea of having maybe a European tax on aviation [...] Some countries in Europe already have it. Let's do it together!” said Dutch Secretary of State for Finance Menno Snel on his arrival at the meeting.
This was not a formal discussion, but a simple...