As EU budget negotiations trundle on, MEPs are not giving up their mission to apply a new digital tax on tech giants to help fill the coffers of the EU’s €2 trillion budget. The EU’s next seven-year budget, the multiannual financial framework (MFF), sits on the desk of Ireland’s EU presidency and is far from agreement. The hard numbers of the EU budget remain fraught. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has come out swinging in favour of deep cuts to the budget and the contributions of member states – by hundreds of billions of euro. “We see some divisions in Council.…

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