The Fee, amongst different objects, offered three new taxes focusing on electrical waste, tobacco merchandise and high-turnover corporations to repay the post-Covid debt, which is estimated to value €25 to €30 billion per yr.
“We additionally don’t help the extra taxation of corporations proposed by the EU Fee,” Kornelius stated in Berlin.
“We should keep the Fee’s reform strategy and the funds’s deal with new priorities. This course is the best one to make Europe sturdy for the longer term,” he added.
Merz has repeatedly emphasised that, from Berlin’s standpoint, EU spending should grow to be extra environment friendly as a substitute of accelerating the general pot of money.
“We [must] reorganize the priorities within the European funds,” the conservative chief stated late final month. “Extra duties can not all the time be linked to further expenditure … and that’s the tough process we now face.”
The funds wants the go-ahead from all EU nations and the European Parliament by 2027.
