The proposed decision of the Council of the EU, to be adopted by the European Commission on Wednesday 2 May in addition to the multiannual financial framework post-2020, will provide for a basket of new own resources, including a tax on a non-recycled plastic packaging waste, aiming to cover 22% of the budget of the European Union in 2027.
According to the draft text, of which EUROPE has had sight, the Commissioner for the CAP budget, Günther Oettinger, is fairly ambitiously tackling the...