{"id":268828,"date":"2025-07-17T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268828\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:21:12","slug":"germany-rejects-von-der-leyens-e1-8-trillion-eu-budget-plan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268828\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany rejects von der Leyen\u2019s \u20ac1.8 trillion EU budget plan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission, among other items, presented three new taxes targeting electric waste, tobacco products and high-turnover companies to repay the post-Covid debt, which is estimated to cost \u20ac25 to \u20ac30 billion per year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also do not support the additional taxation of companies proposed by the EU Commission,&#8221; Kornelius said in Berlin. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must maintain the Commission&#8217;s reform approach and the budget&#8217;s focus on new priorities. This course is the right one to make Europe strong for the future,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Merz has repeatedly emphasized that, from Berlin&#8217;s point of view, EU spending must become more efficient instead of increasing the overall pot of cash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We [must] reorganize the priorities in the European budget,&#8221; the conservative leader said late last month. &#8220;Additional tasks cannot always be linked to additional expenditure &#8230; and that is the difficult task we now face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The budget needs the go-ahead from all EU countries and the European Parliament by 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commission, among other items, presented three new taxes targeting electric waste, tobacco products and high-turnover companies to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1194,2437,2825,2000,12921,7335,299,1945,1824,28649,809,48,1220,12339],"class_list":{"0":"post-268828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-budget","13":"tag-eu-commission","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-national-budgets","18":"tag-negotiations","19":"tag-rights","20":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","21":"tag-waste"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867606871729707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}