{"id":1017321,"date":"2026-06-29T07:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017321"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:12:17","slug":"eu-defends-digital-tax-approach-says-ready-to-act-if-trump-takes-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/eu-defends-digital-tax-approach-says-ready-to-act-if-trump-takes-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"EU defends digital tax approach, says ready to act if Trump takes measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, &#8211; The European Commission said on Friday the EU and its member states \u200chave \u2060the \u2060sovereign right to regulate economic activity, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s threats over digital taxes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any \u2060taxes are \u200cnon-discriminatory \u200bby \u200bdesign and \u2060apply equally to all large companies, \u200bregardless of their \u200borigin&#8221;, a spokesperson said, adding that the bloc would respond \u200cswiftly to unjustified unilateral measures, \u200bbut remained \u200bopen \u2060to a global solution in line with G7 \u200bagreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, &#8211; The European Commission said on Friday the EU and its member states \u200chave \u2060the \u2060sovereign right to regulate economic activity, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s threats over digital taxes. &#8220;Any \u2060taxes are \u200cnon-discriminatory \u200bby \u200bdesign and \u2060apply equally to all large companies, \u200bregardless of their \u200borigin&#8221;, a spokesperson said, adding that the bloc would respond \u200cswiftly to unjustified unilateral measures, \u200bbut remained \u200bopen \u2060to a global solution in line with G7 \u200bagreements.<\/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-1017321","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\/1017321","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=1017321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017342,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017321\/revisions\/1017342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}