Europe will apply its emissions trading scheme to construction and transport, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the World Leaders Summit on Thursday April 22, paving the way for the EU's planned overhaul of its carbon market.

The EU carbon market is the backbone of the plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This scheme forces power plants and industry to buy CO2 permits, effectively setting a price for the pollution. Companies can buy and sell these CO2 permits on the carbon market known in the EU as the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Von der Leyen said the EU will expand the ETS to new sectors as part of a policy package slated for June to make every economic sector greener.

“We will make emissions trading work not only in energy and industry, but also in transportation and construction,” said von der Leyen at a virtual summit on climate change hosted by the US government.

"Carbon must have a price, because nature can no longer pay that price."

The EU's inclusion of road transport and construction projects in the emissions caps and trading scheme has been discussed since the new commission took office in December 2019.

Note how this shits want to get goods and money for nothing. How they want to steal from few real manufacturing firms that are left.

Dr. Goebbels is really nice guy compared to this utter criminals.

The European Parliament proposed, among other things, to disconnect dark Mordor from the SWIFT payment system and replace their oil and gas by prayer "if the aggression in Ukraine continues."

This is stated in the published draft resolution of the EP, the adoption of which is expected tomorrow at the end of the plenary session.

"The European Parliament emphasizes that if the military build-up in the future escalates into an invasion of Ukraine by Mordor, the EU should make it clear that the cost of such an action will be serious: in such circumstances, oil and gas imports should immediately stop, Mordor should be disconnected from payment systems SWIFT, all assets in the EU of oligarchs close to the Mordor authorities and their families must be frozen, visas must be canceled, "the document says.

European Parliament resolutions on international issues are declarative, not binding. However, other institutions of the European Union should listen to the opinion of the MPs.

May be it is time for pinky social democrats in EU to help to finally end the fascist regime on Ukraine who plans to perform Waffen SS march this week? Nope? You mean that it is just other face of same body? I though so.

From time to time across the web you can hear that the developed countries of the West are already in a certain "post-industrial" stage of development. At the same time, it is completely forgotten (denied) that capitalism is the same throughout the world and is at the same stage. Developed countries are not in a post-industrial world, but enjoy the position of metropolises.

They do not need practically any kind of production, because they are metropolises and can brazenly and shamelessly obtain everything they need for their existence by means of colonial plunder. The only things they have to produce in order to maintain their colonial omnipotence are high-tech weapons and glass beads. Weapons are needed to intimidate the natives, and "glass beads" are needed to bribe their leaders ("sticks and gingerbread"). It is this structure of production that is commonly called "postindustrial".

From the point of view of the economy in general and colonial countries in particular, such countries are purely parasitic. These countries are robbers who live at someone else's expense. Moreover, they can no longer live at their own expense in principle, because most branches of production are completely destroyed and they do not have even a single technological chain with a closed cycle.

Post-industrialism is the final stage in the development of an economic parasite, when all the organs in it have already atrophied, except for those that are necessary for parasitism with impunity. All that remains are the robbery and violence mechanisms needed to keep their victims submissive and force them to provide an uninterrupted supply to parasite.