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│ Six EU countries push for windfall tax on │

│ oil companies amid surging war profits │

│ large - Euronews - unknown/unknown │

│ [DEU,ITA,AUT,POL,PRT,ESP,IRL] │

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│ Finance ministers of Germany, Italy, │

│ Austria, Poland, Portugal and Spain jointly │

│ asked the Irish presidency to put a │

│ windfall tax on Hormuz-inflated oil profits │

│ on the Sept 18-19 Ecofin agenda, with │

│ Dublin open to the debate. Fiscal-policy │

│ signal, no score moves. │

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│ https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/ │

│ 23/six-eu-countries-push-for-windfall-tax-o │

│ n-oil-companies-amid-surging-war-profits │

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│ EU Fails to Agree on New Russia Sanctions, │

│ Oil Price Cap Freeze │

│ feature - Bloomberg - │

│ independent/independent [RUS,AUT,GRC] │

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│ The EU failed to adopt its 21st Russia │

│ sanctions package July 13 over Greek LNG │

│ objections and Austrian protection of │

│ Raiffeisen Bank, leaving the $44.10/bbl oil │

│ price cap set to lapse July 15 with no │

│ replacement (250 individual designations │

│ did pass). Not pre-scored as lapsed: Russia │

│ sanctions held at -8 pending the outcome. │

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│ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202 │

│ 6-07-13/eu-fails-to-adopt-russian-sanctions │

│ -and-freeze-oil-price-cap │

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