{"id":639998,"date":"2026-08-07T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=837272"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:30:28","slug":"malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/malta-would-pay-more-than-italy-under-eus-2-19b-gambling-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta Would Pay More Than Italy Under EU\u2019s $2.19B Gambling Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.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&#039;s $2.19B Gambling Levy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>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&#8217;s share, despite a population just over half a million. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/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&#8217;s share, despite a population just over half a million. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-639998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}