German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, December 18, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she favoured expanding the system of carbon emissions trading at EU level.
"The (European Commission) president - and that is touched on in the Green Deal - says the Commission is thinking about expanding emissions trading and I have already told her that I would really support that because I think it would be better if we had an EU-wide trading system, including for transport and buildings," she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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