{"id":316157,"date":"2026-03-06T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:15:13","slug":"big-eu-lobby-groups-exaggerated-industry-support-for-attack-on-carbon-price-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316157\/","title":{"rendered":"Big EU lobby groups exaggerated industry support for attack on carbon price \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merz jumped on the demands to suggest he was open to weakening the policy, comments he later rowed back on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-carbon-price-backlash-leaders-summit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but not before they crashed the carbon price<\/a>. Ever since, attacks on the ETS, which obliges factories to pay for their pollution, have escalated, with Italy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/italy-calls-for-ets-suspension-pending-overhaul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently calling<\/a> for a suspension pending an upcoming reform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letterhead on top of the petition, which asked the EU to \u201cbring energy and carbon costs down,\u201d read: \u201cPresented to EU leaders at the European Industry Summit in Antwerp on 11 February 2026 on behalf of the signatories of the Antwerp Declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Antwerp Declaration, which called for a European \u201cIndustrial Deal\u201d and did not mention carbon costs, was backed by nearly 1,350 signatories, including more than 900 companies ranging from steel giant ArcelorMittal to fertilizer producer Yara.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An emailed press release linking to the petition similarly stated that \u201cthe Antwerp Declaration Community \u2014 representing more than 1,300 companies, associations and trade unions across Europe \u2014\u00a0called on EU Heads of State and Government to take urgent and bold action.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But some of those companies now say they didn\u2019t support the missive \u2014 and even the organizers admitted to POLITICO that they do not know the actual number of backers for this year\u2019s petition, dubbed the Antwerp Call to Alden-Biesen in reference to the Belgian chateau where EU leaders met the day after the industry summit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The findings throw a spotlight on a lobbying practice starting to spread through Europe: Letters demanding controversial policy changes in the name of companies loosely associated with the organizers to boost their influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merz jumped on the demands to suggest he was open to weakening the policy, comments he later rowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[12688,8556,8557,12700,156340,12701,273,2454,8563,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-316157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-chemicals","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-competitiveness","11":"tag-emissions","12":"tag-emissions-trading-system","13":"tag-energy-prices","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-industry","16":"tag-lobbying","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}