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Six EU countries push for windfall tax on #oil companies amid surging war profits


Citing surging #profits amid the #MiddleEast #war, six #EU countries, including Germany & Italy, want finance ministers to discuss the levy at next month’s meeting in Dublin.

Six EU countries are intensifying calls for a bloc-wide #WindfallTax on oil companies as profits surge amid the war in the Middle East, according to a draft letter seen by Euronews.

The finance ministers of #Germany, #Italy, #Austria, #Poland, and #Portugal, along with #Spain's economy minister, sent a joint letter to Ireland's finance minister, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency. The ministers urged that a levy be added to the agenda for next month's meeting of EU finance chiefs in Dublin.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/23/six-eu-countries-push-for-windfall-tax-on-oil-companies-amid-surging-war-profits

#DementiaDon #TrumpFails

#Germany #EU #portugal #Austria #Italy #war #Spain #poland #oil #DementiaDon #profits #MiddleEast #WindfallTax #TrumpFails

I'd love to write #CLI programs in a statically typed #programming language for a living. Is there a home office #job opening like that in #Austria? #Rust #Linux
#programming #linux #rust #Austria #job #cli

🌌 Periodic #fediworld overview

🚄 https://rail.chat - discussions about long-distance, passenger and freight #rail networks, for economic, environmental and equity benefits

⛺ https://krems.social - Krems, #Austria

🎨 https://mensmaaktmooi.nl - community for creative thinkers with unconventional mindset who make beautiful things (#Dutch)

Rail.chat

Rail chat at rail.chat! Discussing a vision for a comprehensive, long-distance, passenger and freight rail network, with seamless connections to other modes of transportation, to create economic, environmental and equity benefits.
Mastodon hosted on rail.chat
#Austria #Rail #dutch #fediworld

Whenever I'll be asked where I come from, it will be easy to tell. "#Austria, not #Australia - The country where #covid incidence is one of the highest, not one of the lowest." - No more need to make use of #Mozart, cattle or #kangaroos.
#COVID #Austria #Australia #Mozart #kangaroos

Interesting, seems #Austria is the first country where search on Google shows more interest in #Rust than #Go if one can trust Trends. Source: https://trends.google.com/ - search for Rust (Programming Language) and Go (Programming Language).
A screenshot of the Google Trends page, comparing Rust and Go, showing Austria as the only country with more interest in Rust than Go (slightly more than 50%).
#rust #Austria #go

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