The thorny issue of environmental taxation returned, on Saturday 22 May, to the table of the European Union’s Finance Ministers, who had been meeting informally in Lisbon since the previous day (see EUROPE B12724A8).
“All ministers believe that green taxation should be used” to achieve the EU’s goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050, said the Portuguese Minister João Leão, who hosted the meeting.
To achieve this, the recently agreed ‘Climate Law’ requires a reduction of at...