MEPs are set to voice their support for the European Commission's proposal to scrap taxation on car registration and replace it by a tax calculated according to the pollution that individual vehicles produce.
The European Parliament will debate a report by Danish liberal MEP Karin Riis-Jorgensen backing the move at a Strasbourg plenary on Monday (4 September) and are expected to vote in favor by a broad majority on Tuesday.
Mrs Riis-Jorgensen points out that EU citizens often have...
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