{"id":42930,"date":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/42930\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:18:08","slug":"greece-among-10-eu-states-pressing-brussels-to-keep-giving-industry-free-carbon-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/42930\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece among 10 EU states pressing Brussels to keep giving industry free carbon permits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Greece<\/p>\n

Smoke billows from the chimneys of Belchatow power station, in Poland, Europe’s biggest coal-fired power plant, May 7, 2009. [Peter Andrews\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

Ten European Union member states, including Greece, have called on the bloc to keep handing out free carbon permits to industry to \u200chelp curb costs as the US-Israeli war on Iran sends energy prices soaring.<\/p>\n

European Union leaders, who meet for a summit in Brussels on Thursday, are debating proposals to modify the bloc\u2019s carbon market that have become central to discussions on containing the rise in energy prices.<\/p>\n

Speaking at an energy conference in the northern Polish city of Gdansk, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland was one of the signatories to \u2060a letter sent to European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday demanding that industry should continue to receive free carbon allowances that limit their bill for releasing carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

Call for \u2018thorough review\u2019<\/p>\n

In addition to Greece, a copy of the letter seen by Reuters was also signed by the leaders of Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovakia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe consider a thorough review of ETS aimed at mitigating its impact on electricity prices and at reducing the risk of volatility of carbon pricing including an extension of the free EU allowances under ETS 1 beyond 2034 to be necessary,\u201d the letter said, referring to the Emissions \u200cTrading Scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, \u2060it is crucial to smooth the phase-out of free allowances from 2028 onwards to avoid placing an excessive burden on industry during this transition period.\u201d<\/p>\n

The European Commission confirmed receipt of the letter.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2005, the ETS forces power plants and industries to buy permits to cover their CO2 emissions, but manufacturing and energy\u2011intensive industries can get some allowances for free.<\/p>\n

Tusk also \u2060said he would also urge the EU to tailor its approach to climate policy to countries\u2019 individual needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about a change of philosophy, a profound adjustment so that each member state can count on a specific approach that takes into account \u2060its specific characteristics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Poland, which still relies on carbon-intensive coal for around half of its electricity, has been particularly dependent on its allocation of free permits to limit costs.<\/p>\n

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The changes to the carbon trading scheme, known \u2060as ETS2, will impose a price on CO2 emissions from heating and transport fuels from 2028, and spend the collected revenues to help households and businesses invest in electric cars and energy-saving renovations. [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke billows from the chimneys of Belchatow power station, in Poland, Europe’s biggest coal-fired power plant, May 7,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,2677,814,2072,2271,4174,38,1158],"class_list":["post-42930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-climate-crisis","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116251322394553352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}