While assembled in Helsinki for an informal working session, on Saturday 14 September the European Finance Ministers will discuss the European framework for energy taxation, which has remained unchanged since 2003.
In a note dated 29 August, of which EUROPE has a copy, the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU explains that the objective of this working meeting is to reflect on the role that energy taxation can play in mitigating climate change in the broadest sense, but also to...