A few days ahead of the meeting of EU heads of state on the post-pandemic Recovery Plan (see EUROPE B12529A1), MEPs have stepped up public calls and proposals for new European taxes to finance economic recovery.
On Thursday 16 July, 70 of them demanded, in an op-ed published by Euractiv, a European financial transaction tax (FTT) worthy of the name, to finance the fight against Covid-19.
The majority of signatories are from the Greens/EFA and S&D groups, but there are also a few MEPs from...