In Linkiesta.it, the Istituto Bruno Leoni presented Epicenter’s new study on the EU budget, criticising the European Commission’s proposal to expand the next Multiannual Financial Framework with new own resources such as the CORE corporate tax and other levies. The analysis argues that there is no need to increase the budget beyond 1% of GNI, as most additional spending objectives can be achieved at national level or by the market, and warns that new European taxes would only raise the overall fiscal burden without any offsetting reductions in national taxation.