Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe hits out at EU “green” taxes and shale disadvantage / Open letter to the commission / “Nobody seriously invests in Europe”
Outspoken Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe, who now goes by “Sir Jim” in the UK after being knighted by Queen Elizabeth, has launched a broadside against the EU, slamming the single market for its high “green” taxes and other shortcomings. In a letter to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, the multibillionaire chemicals and plastics entrepreneur asks the rhetorical question why anyone should invest in Europe, while tossing figures published by the European Chemical Industry Council about... (15.02.2019)