EU budget needs taxes governments aren’t already raising, Costa says

DUBLIN — Governments will be more likely to back new EU taxes for the bloc’s next seven-year budget if they raise money that national governments are not already collecting, European Council President António Costa said. In an interview with POLITICO, Costa set out for the first time what he gathered from leaders during his tour of 25 capitals on one of the thorniest issues in the talks: how to build support towards new EU levies — known as “own resources” — that would generate fresh revenue to the budget.