{"id":51474,"date":"2026-04-30T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/51474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:12:38","slug":"eu-must-have-more-of-its-own-taxes-from-2028-says-von-der-leyen-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/51474\/","title":{"rendered":"EU must have more of its own taxes from 2028, says von der Leyen \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNew own resources are indispensable,\u201d von der Leyen said, using the EU term for raising its own money. \u201cWithout them, the choice is stark: higher national contributions or lower spending capacity. In other words, less Europe exactly where Europe needs to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission in July proposed a package of measures that would increase the amount of own resources. It included levies on carbon-intensive imported goods and taxes on carbon emissions produced in the EU, as well as non-recycled electronic waste, tobacco consumption and corporate profits. Together, they would raise \u20ac66 billion per year, the Commission says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the only credible way to match Europe\u2019s priorities with Europe\u2019s means,\u201d von der Leyen said Wednesday as she addressed MEPs.<\/p>\n<p>In its budget position, the European Parliament calls for taxes on online gambling, tech giants and crypto firms.<\/p>\n<p>New tax proposals have traditionally been rebuffed by countries, which oppose Brussels having power over fiscal and taxation policy. However, at a meeting in Cyprus last week, national leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-parliament-eu-budget-2-trillion-germany-opposition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tasked the Commission<\/a> with exploring Parliament\u2019s proposed new taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Current own resources include customs duties and a levy on non-recycled plastic packaging waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNew own resources are indispensable,\u201d von der Leyen said, using the EU term for raising its own money.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[2034,1062,3928,1740,2698,2039,399,4059,2424,3930,9656,5818,2432,4342,26987,25601,388,2440,4505,403,31718,14938],"class_list":{"0":"post-51474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ursula-von-der-leyen","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-carbon","11":"tag-customs","12":"tag-cyprus","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-dumping-duties","17":"tag-emissions","18":"tag-eu-budget","19":"tag-farmers","20":"tag-industry","21":"tag-innovation","22":"tag-own-resources","23":"tag-packaging","24":"tag-parliament","25":"tag-plastics","26":"tag-regions-cohesion","27":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","28":"tag-vat","29":"tag-waste"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116495957536560078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}