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Hungry for cash: where will the EU find the money?

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 1856 words · By Luca Bertuzzi; Eleonora Vasques
EU Budgetary Sovereignty EU-China Trade Relations Member State Fiscal Conflict
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The EU's next long-term budget needs to be organised ahead of critical elections in several member states next year – and at the centre of the debate is the question of where the bloc should get fresh money.

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What happened

The EU's next long-term budget needs to be organised ahead of critical elections in several member states next year – and at the centre of the debate is the question of where the bloc should get fresh money.

Why it matters

Euronews provides an overview of which proposals might fly.

Common ground

In the coming months, European governments will intensify their efforts to establish how the EU's long-term budget for the period 2028-2034 should be financed, with new revenues, called "own resources", at the centre of the debate.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 1 propaganda technique in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “close to 5.9 billion low-value parcels entered the EU in 2025.”
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Three independent web sources explicitly state that approximately 5.9 billion low-value parcels entered the EU in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — .eu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the European Union (EU). Launched on 7 December 2005, the domain is available for any person, company or organization based in the European Union. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. A supranational union with a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an es…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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Claim 2: “the Commission proposed to introduce a contribution based on the application of a call rate of €2/kg (annually adjusted for inflation) to the weight of non-collected e-waste.”
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No evidence was found after searching for the proposed €2/kg contribution for non-collected e-waste.
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Claim 3: “The CORE would be an annual lump-sum contribution paid by big companies that operate and sell in the EU with a net annual turnover of €100 million.”
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Three independent sources confirm the 'Corporate Resource for Europe (CORE)' proposal involves a lump-sum contribution for companies with an annual net turnover exceeding €100 million.
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web search NEUTRAL — An annual lump-sum contribution of in-scope companies operating and selling in the EU with an annual net turnover exceeding €100m (Corporate Resource for Europe/CORE).
https://globaltaxnews.ey.com/news/2025-1565-eu-commission-re…
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web search NEUTRAL — This contribution named Corporate Resource for Europe (CORE) would apply to EU companies and EU permanent establishments of non-EU entities with an annual net turnover exceeding EUR 100 million.
https://www.loyensloeff.com/insights/news--events/news/europ…
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web search NEUTRAL — Corporate Resource for Europe: Annual lump-sum contribution to the EU budget with reference to corporate turnover.
https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/eu-tax/etf-566-ec-propos…
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Claim 4: “the EU budget can only be adopted unanimously.”
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The provided evidence contains general information about the EU and its member states but does not specify the voting requirements for the adoption of the budget.
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web search NEUTRAL — The eurozone is a group composed of the 21 EU member states that have fully implemented the EU's economic and monetary union and use the euro currency. Through the Common Foreign and Security Policy, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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web search NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a supranational union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · Find out how many EU Member States there are, how big the EU economy is, how people live in the EU, and other useful facts about the EU. Discover what the EU does for citizens, how it pro…
https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
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Claim 5: “the set up of the new EU Tax Authority based in the French city of Lille”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic news homepages (Google News, CNN, Fox News) and general information about France, but contains no mention of an EU Tax Authority in Lille.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — France has a highly developed social market economy with strong state participation in strategic sectors. It is the world's seventh-largest economy by nominal GDP and the ninth-largest economy by PPP,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_France
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Juxtaposed controls (in French: bureaux à contrôles nationaux juxtaposés, or "BCNJ"; in Dutch: kantoren waar de nationale controles van beide landen naast elkaar geschieden) are a reciprocal arrangeme…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposed_controls
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Claim 6: “Since 1 July, the bloc has levied a temporary €3 flat tax on small parcels under €150 of value.”
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While multiple sources confirm a €3 flat levy on parcels under €150, the evidence states this applies from '1 July 2026', not '1 July' (implying the current or past year).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brexit (; a portmanteau of "Britain" and "exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Brexit took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CE…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_European_Un…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There are currently nine states recognised as candidates for membership of the European Union: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukrai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_enlargement_of_the_E…
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Claim 7: “the CBAM applies an equivalent carbon price to imports of selected carbon-intensive goods (currently including iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen)”
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Wikipedia and official EU Taxation and Customs Union sources confirm that CBAM is a carbon tariff on carbon-intensive imports including steel, cement, and electricity.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A carbon tariff or border carbon adjustment (BCA) is an eco-tariff on embedded carbon. The aim is generally to prevent carbon leakage from states without a carbon price. Examples of imports which are …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tariff
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM, pronounced /ˈsiːbæm/) is a carbon tariff on carbon intensive products, such as steel, cement and some electricity, imported to the European Union. Legi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Me…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Kingdom Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (UK CBAM) is a carbon tariff on imports of certain goods produced with high carbon emission into the United Kingdom, similar to the European Union…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_CBAM
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Claim 8: “Since 2005, the EU's ETS1 has operated as a “cap-and-trade” scheme aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to verify the specific start date and nature of ETS1, although it is a known system.
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Claim 9: “digital taxes already present in France, Spain and Italy”
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Claim 10: “Sweden, for instance, is against any form of own resource”
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Multiple sources identify Sweden as part of the 'frugal' bloc and specifically report that Sweden opposes new 'own resources' plans, such as the tobacco excise tax, citing national sovereignty.
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web search NEUTRAL — Given 10 EU member states already have a form of a financial transaction tax in place, the proposal would effectively introduce new minimum tax rates and harmonise different existing taxes on financia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_financial_trans…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sweden is part of the EU's so-called "frugal" bloc, alongside Germany and the Netherlands - net contributors pushing to rein in the bloc's next long-term budget and limit the cost for national taxpaye…
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/13/eu-budget-swed…
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web search NEUTRAL — The EU is exploring new own resources, including tobacco excise taxes, to fund the next long-term budget (2028–2034). Sweden opposes the plan, citing threats to national tax sovereignty and its nicoti…
https://tax.news/sweden-rejects-eu-tobacco-tax-plan/
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Claim 11: “the budget was eventually financed by a national contribution, each country contributing 1.13 percent of its gross national income.”
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Two independent web sources explicitly state that national contributions grew from 1.13 percent of member states' gross national income to 1.15 percent, confirming the 1.13% figure for the previous period.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — .eu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the European Union (EU). Launched on 7 December 2005, the domain is available for any person, company or organization based in the European Union. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — EU is the European Union, a political and economic union of 27 member states primarily located in Europe. Eu or eu may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. A supranational union with a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an es…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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Claim 12: “Ireland, the current chair of the EU Council, is also against the proposal”
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