5 countries ask Brussels to tax energy companies benefitting from Iran crisis

Austria

Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain want Brussels to impose a windfall tax on energy companies reaping profits from the war in Iran. In a letter sent to EU Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra on Friday and obtained by POLITICO, the five countries' finance and economy ministers requested the European Commission develop an EU-wide tax on windfall profits to ensure the "burden" of spiking fuel prices is "distributed fairly." "Those who profit from the

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