Wednesday 23 April saw the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets take stock of the effectiveness of the implementation of the ‘plastic tax’ at a time when the European Commission and the European Parliament are defending the adoption of new EU own resources.
The ‘plastic tax’ was “the first new own resource [adopted] since the 1980s”, as Parliament’s co-rapporteur on own resources Danuše Nerudová (EPP, Czech) pointed out, reviewing its implementation should enable...