{"id":956551,"date":"2026-05-13T07:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956551\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:26:17","slug":"eu-discussing-tax-on-energy-firms-war-linked-profits-ministers-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956551\/","title":{"rendered":"EU discussing tax on energy firms\u2019 war-linked profits, ministers says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/germany_energy_electricity_power_lines_reuters-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"EU discussing tax on energy firms\u2019 war-linked profits, ministers says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/germany_energy_electricity_power_lines_reuters-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>European Union energy ministers are \u200bdiscussing the creation \u200bof a tax on \u2060energy companies\u2019 windfall \u200bprofits from the \u200bprice hikes that followed the eruption of the Iran \u200bwar, Greek Energy \u200bMinister Stavros Papastavrou said on \u200cWednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish \u2060Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said five EU countries, including \u200bSpain, \u200bare \u2060in favor of such a \u200btax.<\/p>\n<p>EU energy \u200bministers \u2060are set to meet on Thursday in \u2060Nicosia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Union energy ministers are \u200bdiscussing the creation \u200bof a tax on \u2060energy companies\u2019 windfall \u200bprofits from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1700,35,2000,299,5187,24884],"class_list":{"0":"post-956551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-taxation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116566084932072695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956551","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=956551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}