Climate Minister Zakia Khattabi (Ecolo) is immediately in the eye of the storm. In her policy letter, she hints at a carbon tax, an additional tax on polluting fuels, and the opposition parties immediately jump on it. Even within the own majority, she gets the wind from the front. Open VLD chairman Egbert Lachaert whistled her back. “We are not going to introduce ill-considered or one-sided initiatives,” he says.
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A “pricing” of the carbon price, that’s what Climate Minister Zakia Khattabi (Ecolo) says in her policy statement. And she promises to “immediately” make concrete proposals to her colleague …
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