Nine EU countries call for a European aviation tax to curb emissions
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nine European Union states have called on the bloc's incoming Commission to introduce a EU-wide tax on aviation, in order to charge a polluting industry more for its emissions and to put all member states on level pegging.In a letter to the bloc's new climate official, Frans Timmermans, the finance ministers of Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and five other EU states, called for "some form of aviation tax" without giving specifics.The nine countries said an aviation..