{"id":1002197,"date":"2026-04-10T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002197"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:02:00","slug":"eu-lawmakers-want-to-tax-big-tech-to-fund-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/eu-lawmakers-want-to-tax-big-tech-to-fund-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers want to tax Big Tech to fund budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU lawmakers on Thursday demanded a European Union-wide tax on the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies and online gambling sites to help fund the 27-country bloc&#8217;s next seven-year budget. <\/p>\n<p>The EU is facing one of its biggest battles this year over the 2028-2034 budget, which the executive set at two trillion euros ($2.3 trillion). <\/p>\n<p>Fierce negotiations are expected between the European Parliament and member states, especially over where to find extra money that governments are reluctant to chip in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU lawmakers on Thursday demanded a European Union-wide tax on the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies and online gambling sites to help fund the 27-country bloc&#8217;s next seven-year budget. The EU is facing one of its biggest battles this year over the 2028-2034 budget, which the executive set at two trillion euros ($2.3 trillion). Fierce negotiations are expected between the European Parliament and member states, especially over where to find extra money that governments are reluctant to chip in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}