By Søren Søndergaard, MEP for The Danish People’s Movement Against the EU

There is cause for anxiety as the Danish Government has already accepted the notion of the EU having new revenues from taxation.

The Government wants to use the Danish EU presidency during the first six months of 2012 to work for new EU taxes, it appears from a letter from Foreign Secretary Lene Espersen to Søren Søndergaard, MEP for the Danish People’s Movement Against the EU.

After having rejected direct EU taxation the foreign secretary’s letter says that Denmark will not reject ”the introduction of sources of income following from EU legislation”. And the letter ends with the following passage: ”As we are to hold the Presidency it will of course be our responsibility to further a compromise in the negotiations on the future financial perspectives, which will undoubtedly be very difficult, and in that connection we shall among other things have to consider various models for financing the EU budget.”

There is cause for anxiety as the Government has already accepted the notion of the EU having new revenues from taxation apart from what national parliaments approve. That will be yet another step towards making the EU system independent of the democratic decision making processes in the individual countries.

I shall urgently appeal to the Europe Committee of Folketinget, the Danish Parliament, to reject the Government’s plans for new taxes.

Søren Søndergaard, MEP, the Danish People’s Movement Against the EU

A copy of the letter (In Danish) from the Foreign Secretary to Søren Søndergaard can be order by e-mailing to soren@folkebevaegelsen.dk or ib@folkebevaegelsen.dk.