ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “It is undoubted that the ideological conditioning of the past Commission has given an imprint: this is especially true for the bureaucracy that is certainly closed out and that it believes, in my opinion mistakenly, that what was once thought should be gospel. The theme of energy today is not only a matter of environmental nature: today energy means first of all national independence and, in the case of species, European independence. It is evident that, when we have energy costs that are three or four times higher than those for example of the US, going to markets and competing becomes difficult.” Thus Tommaso Foti, minister for European affairs, cohesion policies and the PNRR, in an interview with La Verità. “That of the ETS is a great problem on which two settings meet, ours and that of the Nordic countries, where the industry has a very different weight than it has elsewhere. We continue to argue that it is an additional fee that is strongly risking to put into crisis the whole industry sector, they argue that it is simply making the industry greener,” he explains.
“In fact, behind all this there is also a market of quotas, with a financial speculation that I don’t think has anything to do with the environment. This is why Italy has insisted on the revision of the ETS and I can say that the last European Council has been accepted an approach that should provide for, for mid-July, a European Commission that gives a different indication, hopefully new, compared to the Ets”, concludes Foti.
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