Czechia to seek support for reducing EU regulation, says PM Babiš

The Czech Republic will actively seek support across Europe to reduce EU regulation, which is currently slowing down European industry as it struggles for survival. This was stated today by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at the conference Successful Czechia: Without Unnecessary Regulations and Bureaucracy. According to him, the main goal should be a revision of the emissions trading system. At the European level, he also wants to address the EU budget, protection of the European market, and investment.

Babiš is among the EU leaders who are vocally calling for changes to the emissions trading system. In his latest letter sent to the European Commission at the beginning of April, he proposed granting companies in the most affected sectors free allocations of emission allowances, conditional on their decarbonisation plans. According to him, this measure should be adopted without delay.