{"id":203287,"date":"2026-04-16T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/eu-to-slash-power-bills-by-cutting-taxes-and-grid-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:49:00","slug":"eu-to-slash-power-bills-by-cutting-taxes-and-grid-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/eu-to-slash-power-bills-by-cutting-taxes-and-grid-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to slash power bills by cutting taxes and grid costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission&#8217;s draft proposal to change energy taxation risks being politically sensitive as several EU countries have limited fiscal space. Environmental groups urge Brussels to propose a windfall profit tax to help EU capitals deal with soaring energy prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/16\/eu-to-slash-power-bills-by-cutting-taxes-and-grid-costs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission&#8217;s draft proposal to change energy taxation risks being politically sensitive as several EU countries have limited fiscal space. Environmental groups urge Brussels to propose a windfall profit tax to help EU capitals deal with soaring energy prices. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":203288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}