It could just be a pause to gain firmer support for a final push to put ETS in place permanently. Or, it could be a covert and quiet way of backing out of non-European ETS charges, as the opposition to it from China, India, and USA, is too strong and determined. At the end of the year, it will be surreptitiously dropped.
There is, of course, growing opposition to the notion of there being any problem with CO2 levels and global temperatures, which may be gaining ground politically. However, the temptation to keep all that lovely tax revenue coming into the cash desperate EU, might be a temptation too far.
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