{"id":5165,"date":"2025-07-17T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5165\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:03:12","slug":"germany-rejects-von-der-leyens-e1-8-trillion-eu-budget-plan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5165\/","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":5166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[458,2980,460,3082,3083,2794,49,2964,2363,50,470,51,47,52,48,2988,3084],"class_list":{"0":"post-5165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-eu-budget","12":"tag-eu-commission","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-national-budgets","16":"tag-negotiations","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-rights","19":"tag-top-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topnews","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","24":"tag-waste"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}