European Industry Ministers were cautious, at the Competitiveness Council on Monday 18 February, about the Clean Planet strategy to establish a climate-neutral economy by 2050, with many, if not most, fearing that the Union would become a "low-carbon island" with an unsustainable cost for industry in the face of an international ocean that does not meet the same environmental standards.
During the exchanges, a line was drawn in a schematic way, with nuances between a very ambitious...