Oh dear, these irrational europhiles...!!
"Emissions trading" must be the biggest bureaucratic farce that exists: trading something that has disappeared into thin air!! (And the 'quantities' being determined by a new army of eurocrats....) And what good is it going to do? It'll chase all the transfer trade away from Europe: Why connect from North America to the East via any European hub and pay silly euro-pricing when you can go via the middle east and not pay that silly euro-pricing!! What-oh, kill off European busniness and sit there smugly saying "Look at how good and 'euro-green' we are!". In the mean time, jobs at bmi...? Oh, we'll get around to them sometime, may be a bit late by then, but -- hey -- look at these good euro-taxpayer funded jobs the we've got here at the Commission!! (And name a Commissionser that has the term 'democratic' spring to mind in connection with their jobs...?)
Good luck to the bmi staff, despite the EU!