In Focus-News.net, the Institute for Market Economics (IME), as part of the Epicenter network, warned that at least 300 large companies in Bulgaria could be negatively impacted by the European Commission’s proposed Corporate Resource for Europe (CORE). The article presents the network’s Alternative EU Budget proposal, which caps the Multiannual Financial Framework at around 1% of GNI and strongly opposes new EU own resources that would increase the overall tax burden and centralise fiscal policy.