# EPICENTER: The European Policy Information Center

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## Pages
- [EPICENTER Staff](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/epicenter-staff-2360/)
- [Who we are](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/who-we-are/)
- [EPICENTER partners](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/epicenter-partners/)
- [EPICENTER members](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/epicenter-members/)
- [Press Releases](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/press-releases-2374/)

## Posts
- [That’s The Way The Cookie Crumbles: Who Pays When Browser\-level Consent Reshapes The Open Web](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/briefings/thats-the-way-the-cookie-crumbles/): This briefing examines the European Commission's proposed browser\-level consent mechanism under Article 88b of the Digital Omnibus, which aims to simplify online privacy by replacing website cookie banners with a single browser\-based preference\.
- [EU Regulatory Observatory: The Industrial Accelerator Act – Faster Permits, Directed Industry](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/briefings/eu-regulatory-observatory-the-industrial-accelerator-act-faster-permits-directed-industry/): This briefing examines the European Commission's Industrial Accelerator Act, which responds to a widely shared diagnosis: EU industrial investment is too slow, permitting is fragmented, and strategic dependencies have become a security concern\. While the Act includes genuine procedural improvements, the paper argues that its headline promise of acceleration masks a deeper logic of industrial direction – one that steers investment toward politically designated sectors rather than removing barriers to all of them\.
- [LIBEROQUOTIDIANO\.IT: MINGARDI WARNS AGAINST NEW EU TAXES FOR A LARGER EU BUDGET](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/media/mingardi-warns-against-new-eu-taxes-for-a-larger-eu-budget/): In LiberoQuotidiano\.it, Alberto Mingardi, Director of the Istituto Bruno Leoni and part of the Epicenter network, criticised proposals for new European taxes to finance an expanded Multiannual Financial Framework\. Mingardi warned that the Commission’s plans for additional own resources, such as the CORE corporate levy, would increase the overall tax burden without delivering real value, arguing instead for a leaner EU budget capped at 1% of GNI with better prioritisation of spending\.


- [ILFOGLIO\.IT: ATTACKING HIGH ENERGY BILLS IS POSSIBLE](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/media/attacking-high-energy-bills-is-possible/): In Ilfoglio\.it, Luca Lo Schiavo and Carlo Stagnaro \(Istituto Bruno Leoni\) analysed Italy’s persistently high electricity bills and the multiple policy\-driven causes behind them\. The article references Epicenter’s study showing that Europe does not need additional resources for the next Multiannual Financial Framework: the EU can achieve its objectives by concentrating spending more effectively while remaining within the traditional 1% of GNI cap\. The authors argue that auction revenues from the ETS should be used to reduce energy bills rather than feed an expanding EU budget, while calling for national measures to cut system charges, reduce bureaucracy, and accelerate genuine market reforms\.


- [ILFOGLIO\.IT: ITALY OPENS A BREACH IN THE EU BUT CHOOSES A BAD TIME TO TAKE ON MORE DEBT](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/media/italy-opens-a-breach-in-the-eu-but-chooses-a-bad-time-to-take-on-more-debt/): In Ilfoglio\.it, economist Nicola Rossi analyses Italy’s push for greater fiscal flexibility within the EU’s economic governance framework\. The article discusses the Italian government’s request for more budgetary room in the context of the ongoing Multiannual Financial Framework negotiations, warning that this comes at an inopportune moment amid rising interest rates and global macroeconomic imbalances, and stresses the need for any additional flexibility to remain strictly temporary and paired with a clear path back to fiscal discipline\.



## Categories
- [Blog](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/category/blog/)
- [Media](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/category/media/)
- [Publications](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/category/publications/)
- [Briefings](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/category/briefings/)
- [Fiscal \& Taxation Publications](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/category/publications/fiscal-taxation-publications/)

## Tags
- [regulation](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/tag/regulation/)
- [liberalism](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/tag/liberalism/)
- [European Union](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/tag/european-union/)
- [EU policy](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/tag/eu-policy/)
- [trade](https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/tag/trade/)

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