{"id":86915,"date":"2026-08-07T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86915"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:05:38","slug":"malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86915","title":{"rendered":"Malta Would Pay More Than Italy Under EU\u2019s $2.19B Gambling Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Malta Would Pay More Than Italy Under EU's $2.19B Gambling Levy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">Malta has joined Italy, Portugal, and Spain to block a possible EU-wide online gambling levy, four diplomats told Politico, in a budget fight any one of the 27 governments can veto. Commission modeling would bill Malta about $190 million (\u20ac165 million) a year, more than Italy\u2019s share, despite a population just over half a million. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta has joined Italy, Portugal, and Spain to block a possible EU-wide online gambling levy, four diplomats told Politico, in a budget fight any one of the 27 governments can veto. Commission modeling would bill Malta about $190 million (\u20ac165 million) a year, more than Italy\u2019s share, despite a population just over half a million. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}