Pascal Canfin, President of European Parliament Environment Committee: ‘Behind each tax break you have a lobby’

1 July 2020

Investigate Europe

Environment/Dirty subsidies

Pascal Canfin, President of European Parliament Environment Committee: ‘Behind each tax break you have a lobby’

Investigate Europe

1 July 2020

About Dirty subsidies

2020 was supposed to be the year the EU would launch its ambitious plan to tackle the climate crisis. But why does Europe sabotage its climate goals by subsidising the fossil sector by more than €137 billion per year?

Reduce free allowances, introduce a carbon tax and set more and strict standards for climate friendly technologies. This will help the climate more than increasing taxes for the fossil industry, says MEP Pascal Canfin. What is happening with ‘Green Conditionality’ in the bailout plans against the corona crisis? I’m fighting hard to have conditionality in the [...]

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