Ten EU states, including Cyprus, urge rethink of new carbon fuel price

Ten European Union countries, including Cyprus, Italy and Poland, have urged the bloc to reconsider a new carbon price on fuel as part of a separate revision of the EU’s carbon market, according to a joint statement seen by Reuters.

Their opposition to the levy risks upending plans to update Brussels’ main climate change policy, the emissions trading system (ETS), and could put them at odds with supporters of the new charge such as Germany and Sweden....