President Sarkozy suffered a blow to his ambition to lead a green revolution yesterday when France's constitutional court annulled a carbon tax that was to be introduced on Friday.
The Constitutional Council said that Mr Sarkozy's flagship scheme had so many exemptions that it "runs counter to the goal of fighting climate change and breaches the principle of equality in taxation".
The rejection scuppered what Mr Sarkozy had cast as an historic initiative that would make France a pioneer in the struggle to combat climate change. More...
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