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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13078

7 December 2022
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Taxation
EU ministers disagree on how to achieve environmental goals through energy taxation
Brussels, 06/12/2022 (Agence Europe)

EU finance ministers expressed their differences in an exchange of views on the reform of the Energy Tax Directive in a public debate at the Ecofin Council on Tuesday 6 December. While all agreed to introduce more flexibility to make European rules correspond to the specificities of each country, some regretted that environmental considerations were not taken into account enough.

Some ministers would like the file to have a stronger environmental orientation and to be more ambitious....

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