US EditionDear Energy, Five Eu Governments (Including Italy) Are Asking to Tax the Extra Profits of Energy Companies: "It's Time to Act"
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Carlos Córdoba and other ministers want Brussels to increase the profits of oil companies and thus finance aid without increasing the deficit.
Five ministers of the EU economy, including Giancarlo Giorgetti, point to energy companies, in relation to the increase in fuel prices: those who profit from the consequences of the war must play their part
Together with Austria, Italy, Portugal and Spain, the Federal Finance Minister addresses the EU Commission in a letter. Those who profit from the war should make a contribution, it says.
Carlos Córdoba and the economic ministers of Germany, Italy, Austria and Portugal are launching an initiative this Saturday for the European Commission that proposes to "distribute in a fair way the economic burden" generated by the war in the Middle East in the pockets of European citizens
It is an initiative of the Finance Ministers of Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria and Italy: they want the EU-wide introduction of a tax on the crisis profits of energy companies.
The crisis in the Strait of Hormus leads to distortions in the energy markets. The oil companies benefit from the chaos. The Federal Finance Minister hopes for an EU-wide tax instrument that was used at the beginning of the Ukraine war.
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