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EU Official Plans Direct Taxes to Plug Brexit Holes
January 11, 2018
The Independent reports that European Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger has called for an expansion of the EU's authority to raise direct taxes, bypassing EU member governments, by introducing a Europe-wide tax on plastics and by making Brussels, as opposed to national governments, the beneficiary of revenue from the EU's emissions trading scheme.
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Cleppe: EU Must Reduce Spending After Brexit
January 11, 2018
Pieter Cleppe of the think tank Open Europe writes that European President Jean-Claude Juncker's push to increase the EU budget after the exit of Britain from the bloc will only heighten euroskeptic concerns about the EU's "excessive spending programs" and "burdensome overregulation" and will continue to strike at the reputation of the supranational organization.
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Commentator: EU's Path Forward Is Via National Sovereignty
January 10, 2018
Author and commentator John Lloyd writes that the EU should not lose itself in a post-Brexit "integrationist pipe dream" but rather should strengthen the bloc's national governments as politically accountable actors and "recast the Union as a loose association of friendly states" that offers both cooperation and flexibility.
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Italian Party Backs off Call for Euro Referendum
January 10, 2018
Reuters reports that the head of Italy's 5-Star Movement Luigi Di Maio has rolled back his party's commitment to hold a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone as the group leads opinion polls in the months prior to Italy's March election.
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EU Chief Rejects Talk of Reducing Funding to Poland
January 10, 2018
Politico reports that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has rejected growing calls from officials in Western European countries to withhold development funding from Poland for alleged violations of rule-of-law norms in the country's judicial system, dismissing such proposals as "wild threats."
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