1. 🚨 BRUSSELS TAX OVERREACH STRIKES AGAIN

Here we go again.

A new leaked European Commission report reveals a new plan to tax businesses on revenue, instead of profit – including American companies.

This plan is called Corporate Resource for Europe (CORE), and it’s a way for the EU to collect more money for itself. Money to pay for things like radical climate policies and policing hate speech.

But here’s the kicker: the EU would get to collect and spend this money directly, without national governments having much say. That’s a big step toward even more central control in Brussels.

Daniel Bunn, CEO of the Tax Foundation, immediately sounded the alarm on X, upon the leak of this horrific tax plan, stating it could be “the worst-designed business tax proposal” he’s seen out of the EU.

And it’s not just European companies that need to worry.

These taxes are not just limited to companies based in Europe, but will be imposed no matter where they are headquartered. This is giving further reasoning for American countries to take a step back from operating within the EU.

This kind of tax punishes success, discourages investment, and sends a message that doing business in Europe just isn’t worth it. For US companies, it could mean higher costs, lower profits, and even tough choices about pulling back from the European market.

2.🎂 MACRON: “LET THEM EAT CAKE”

French President Emmanuel Macron came to power promising reform and renewal. Eight years later, Macron only has one thing to show for his time in office: failure. Nearly 10 million people now live below the poverty line. For all his big talk over the past eight years, Macron’s policies have done nothing but let down French citizens.

France’s debt has surged past 110% of GDP, and the EU has flagged its excessive deficits. These are not the signs of a thriving economy; they’re signs of a floundering government avoiding responsibility and throwing money at their problems.

Macron jams through bureaucratic policies with his political career in mind, not the needs of his people. While he passes legislation that advocates for heavy government overreach, a whopping 15.4% of his people live in poverty, according to Insee, a French statistics institute.

France needs responsibility. That means cutting red tape and reducing dependency through opportunity. Macron promised to save France. But the rising poverty rate shows he hasn’t just fallen short, he turned his back and started walking in the opposite direction.

🧊 EU FREEZES FUNDS, THREATENS VOTING RIGHTS

In the European Union, defying Brussels’ elite means losing your funding, and potentially your voting rights, too.

The European Commission is pushing to tie the next €1.2 trillion budget to mandatory “rule-of-law” compliance, a vague standard that essentially gives the Commission a veto over how member states govern themselves.

This comes off the heels of its recent annual Rule of Law report, which criticized Hungary for rejecting the EU’s liberal policies and punished them by freezing €18 billion in funds. The message is clear: don’t push the EU narrative? No funding for you.

That’s not all, either. Denmark, which unsurprisingly holds the EU’s presidency at the moment, is calling to strip Hungary of its voting rights under Article 7 of the EU Treaty, citing the country’s inability to uphold EU “values.” This so-called “nuclear option” has always been portrayed as a last resort for serious breaches, yet now it’s being brandished as a political weapon to silence a government that simply disagrees with Brussels’ radical agenda.

This is not rule-of-law enforcement, it’s ideological enforcement.

Brussels is no longer even pretending to respect national sovereignty. Instead, it’s using financial pressure and constitutional mechanisms to force conservative governments into submission. These “values” are clearly much more than that: they’re unofficial rules, and if you don’t adopt them, you risk political blackmail or total disenfranchisement.

Brussels says it wants unity, but what it really demands is obedience, and other member states should take notice. What’s happening to Hungary today could happen to any country that puts its people first and the EU second.