The EU Commission will use the time ahead of Christmas to lay out its plans on new so-called 'own resources' on Wednesday (22 December), aimed to raise the billions of euros that will be needed to repay the borrowings underpinning the Covid-19 recovery fund.
The proposals are very sensitive politically for national capitals, so there will be a lot of digestion on the proposals over the Christmas period.
Two new revenue streams allocated to the commission are linked to the commis...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.