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Thursday, 2 July 2026

Europe’s carbon rules buckle as Volkswagen weighs 100,000 job cuts

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 The EU is holding to its Green Deal targets — a 55% emissions cut by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 — even as its carbon market comes under growing political attack.

Carbon costs have climbed sharply, from an average €25 per ton in 2020 to over €100 by 2023, adding pressure on European manufacturers.

Germany, Italy, and Eastern European nations are demanding looser climate rules amid job cuts at major employers like Volkswagen.

The EU's Emissions Trading System faces political backlash, with Italy calling for suspension and Poland and the Czech Republic securing a delay to the ETS2 carbon-pricing scheme.

Critics, including Hungary's energy minister, argue the EU's aggressive targets risk economic harm while it accounts for less than 7% of global emissions.

Europe's green agenda is colliding with economic reality, and the strain is showing across the continent's industrial heartland. As European Union leaders hold to their target of a net-zero economy by 2050, a growing bloc of national governments is demanding the rules be loosened — and some of the bloc's biggest employers are shedding jobs.

At the center of the fight is the EU's Emissions Trading System, the carbon market that has anchored the bloc's climate strategy since 2005. The system charges companies for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit, and the politics around it have turned volatile....<<<Read More>>>...