Ireland’s draft EU budget for 2028–2034 leaves out online gambling levy

The 10 October negotiating box lists five new revenue sources, while H2 Gambling Capital’s Ed Birkin says the Commission’s gambling levy estimate is ‘way off’. Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union has left an online gambling levy out of its draft of the EU’s next long-term budget. The negotiating box for the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), circulated on 10 October, lists five new EU revenue sources, and gambling is not among them. What the Irish draft proposes The draft caps spending at €1.62 trillion in commitments over seven years , in 2025 prices.