Published on 24/09/2026 – 16:28 GMT+2 • Updated
18:23
Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland are pushing for changes to the EU’s carbon market to give European industry more time and flexibility to cut emissions without losing competitiveness, according to a document seen by Euronews.
The five countries argue that companies face enormous costs to decarbonise factories while competing with producers outside Europe that are not subject to the same carbon price.
“We need something like an ‘export discount’ because we have a huge problem when we start doing business outside,” Austrian Industry and Energy Minister Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer…
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