{"id":449842,"date":"2026-04-09T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/09\/dombrovskis-le-tasse-sugli-extraprofitti-sono-possibili-stiamo-valutando-un-approccio-ue-coordinato\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:04:03","slug":"dombrovskis-windfall-taxes-are-possible-assessing-a-coordinated-eu-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/dombrovskis-windfall-taxes-are-possible-assessing-a-coordinated-eu-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dombrovskis: Windfall taxes are possible; assessing a coordinated EU approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cOn the issue of the windfall tax, seven Member States have called on the Commission to introduce this measure, and we ourselves had proposed it during the previous energy crisis. Strictly speaking, nothing prevents Member States from applying this tax<\/strong>, as direct taxation falls largely within their remit. We are assessing whether to adopt some form of a more coordinated approach at the European level; the assessment is ongoing.\u201d This was stated by EU Commissioner for the Economy Valdis Dombrovskis during a hearing before the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on Economic Affairs. <\/p>\n

The Five Star Movement expresses satisfaction. \u201cWe welcome the openness to a windfall tax on energy and oil companies,\u201d said Pasquale Tridico<\/strong>, the Five Star Movement\u2019s head of delegation to the European Parliament, in a statement. However, he adds, \u201cit is time to speed things up: the markets and speculation are moving much faster than politics, and we would not want to end up with a belated and watered-down compromise in the face of billions of euros in extra revenue generated as a result of the war in Iran. This European tax could be introduced as a solidarity contribution to be redistributed to families and businesses who are paying the heaviest price for this war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In collaboration with Gea<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cOn the issue of the windfall tax, seven Member States have called on the Commission to introduce this measure, and we ourselves had proposed it during the previous energy crisis. Strictly speaking, nothing prevents Member States from applying this tax, as direct taxation falls largely within their remit. We are assessing whether to adopt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,25705],"tags":[30151],"class_list":["post-449842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-business","tag-extraprofits-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449843,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449842\/revisions\/449843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}