Opponents of EU air emission tax agree retaliation measures

Russia's deputy transport minister, Valery Okulov has said countries opposed to an EU law which forces the world's airlines to pay for their emissions have agreed a basket of retaliatory measures, but will leave it up to each country to choose among them, Reuters has reported. "Every state will chose the most effective and reliable measures which will help to cancel or postpone the implementation of the EU ETS," Okulov, whose ministry hosted the meeting of 26 nations, told a news conference. Saudi Arabia would organise the next meeting of the so-called "coalition of the unwilling" in the summer, he added.

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