Just before the EU summit in Brussels, a huge controversy erupts! A coalition of ten European countries rises up against the EU's disastrous climate policy. Their dramatic warning: the current system is destroying our industry and ending our prosperity.

The urgent letter currently being sent to the European Commission is a sharp criticism of Brussels' climate policy. Ten countries - including Austria, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary - have finally had enough of economically damaging regulations. They openly brand the so-called Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) - effectively a huge, bureaucratic carbon tax - an "existential threat" to the European economy, writes Heinz Steiner.

Heads of state and government are sounding the alarm: if the EU pushes through its ideological agenda and forces industry to pay ever more absurd amounts for carbon emissions, we risk total collapse. The demand by the 10-country alliance is a direct attack on the EU's green core: free CO2 certificates must be extended beyond 2034. Otherwise, the warning is unequivocal, companies will collapse under the weight of costs. But they do not (yet) dare to demand the only truly sensible measure, namely the complete abolition of the absurd emissions trading scheme.

"Our industry is committed", says the letter from the Heads of Government. But the reality looks bleak: "Together with high energy prices and the expiry of free emission trading certificates, the current regulatory framework has become an existential threat to many strategic industries in Europe." In this way, the EU is driving its own economy into the abyss. Countries are warning of a "perfect storm" for energy-intensive industries. Exploding costs, climate-crazed bureaucracy and underdeveloped "green" technologies are putting companies under enormous pressure. The gradual industrial disappearance of our continent looms. But what will EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen do? Instead of pulling the emergency brake as new crises escalate in the Middle East (Iran) and energy prices rise further, she stubbornly sticks to her climate madness. He recently made it clear that he intends to take the carbon market forward. For him, this tool is "central" to funding his green agenda - for energy-intensive companies it is a death blow.

The rebel countries are now demanding an immediate end to the madness in Brussels. The EU must act "within a few weeks", by the end of May at the latest. The phasing out of free allowances from 2028 must be postponed, and a cap on electricity prices for industry and citizens must finally be put in place. It is precisely Europe's economic survival that is at stake.

While more and more European countries are fighting for millions of jobs and industrial bases, the familiar players continue to praise climate regulations. In a separate letter, countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg and the Netherlands backed the controversial scheme. For them, Europe's economic suicide appears to be an acceptable price to pay for green ideology. The EU summit this Thursday now promises to be a historic confrontation: common sense and economic protection against green ideology and industrial decline.

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