How to defuse the EU’s carbon tax time bomb
Energy costs and taxes are political dynamite, easily exploited by populist parties. And yet, the EU is set to introduce an economy-wide carbon price (ETS2) on transport and heating fuels in 2027. Carbon pricing for petrol and gas is not a new idea. In fact, two-thirds of EU citizens already pay some sort of carbon […]
At 70, I learned how to travel solo again
Open this photo in gallery: Town Hall square in Vilnius. Marsha Barber took five walking tours during her time in the Lithuanian capital.Leonid Andronov/Getty Images It was supposed to be a trip for two to Lithuania and Poland for my husband, Stephen, and me. Over the decades we’d travelled, between us, to nearly 50 countries. […]