EU takes environmental policy quite serious, and is not expected to bow to US/Chinese/Russian pressure
I'm not going to pass comment on the rest of your pro-EU rant but, seriously - do you actually believe what you wrote there? or did you copy it from some socialist / environmentalist workshop somewhere? Firstly this is a TAX, not an environmental policy.
secondly, the EU is a washed up, unelected talking shop, which has given itself huge legal powers, but actually has very little mandate from any of the EU population, and as such will garner very little popular support for any of this
Thirdy - "The EU will not bow to China / US / Russia". Wow, really? What not even if russia and china close their airspace to all EU airlines? or they cancel all airbus orders? or they impose huge trade tarifs, I mean its not as if the EU imports much from china is it.
I'll pop down to the bookies and put a million euros on china winning this one. Of course this won't be too hard, as due to the stunning competence of the EU in other endeavours, a million euros will be worth about £2.68 in a few years time.