New York Post: France’s Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad suggested Tuesday that the EU, the self-styled free trade club of 27 nations, use billions squeezed out of firms like Google as “a new revenue stream” to slash membership fees and help fund its lavish outgoings.
He bragged on live TV that the 4.6 billion euro, or $5.2 billion, cash grab extracted from the search giant serves as a handy “windfall” for EU governments as they look to agree a massive new 2 trillion euro, seven-year spending plan…