In Belgium, Reuters reported that the European Union plans to start taxing polluting aviation fuels have hit an impasse as the bloc’s 27 member states struggle to agree to make green fuels cheaper and fossil fuels more expensive.
The report noted that EU countries are negotiating an overhaul of energy taxes with their new climate change targets.
But two years after the EU executive proposed the law to tax aviation fuels for the first time, a deal is still not in sight, Reuters said.
“We do not expect the distances between countries to be resolved during the Spanish presidency,” said a diplomat from one EU country in reference to Madrid chairing EU talks until the end of the year.
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