NEGLOBAL.EU: BRUSSELS WANTS MORE TAX POWER – AGAIN
In NEGlobal.eu, Petar Ganev from the Institute for Market Economics (IME), as part of the Epicenter network, criticised the European Commission’s push for new “own resources” in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034). Ganev argued that proposals for EU-level revenues linked to corporations, carbon emissions, tobacco, and environmental levies represent a shift toward permanent EU taxing capacity, detaching fiscal decisions from national democratic accountability. The article presents Epicenter’s Alternative Multiannual Financial Framework, which caps EU spending at roughly 1% of GNI and shows that treaty obligations, support for Ukraine, research, and cohesion can be met without granting Brussels new permanent revenue streams, while calling for simplicity, fiscal neutrality, and clear limits on centralisation.
