Ridiculous

Alain Lamassoure, a French MEP, is proposing a tax on every SMS messages and e-mail sent.

...1.5 euro cents on text messages and a 0.00001 cent levy on every e-mail sent. "This is peanuts, but given the billions of transactions every day, this could still raise an immense income," he said.

The EU is funded through a combination of import duties, value added tax revenues and direct contributions from member states — the "gross national income resource", calculated according to wealth.

After a battle over the present seven-year budget, agreed last December, it was decided that the way in which the EU is funded should be changed, with new proposals expected by 2008-09.

Other ideas include a tax on airline tickets and an extra levy on oil companies.

I do not think this is the right way to raise money for EU. It’s not like we are communicating across the borders because of the EU. They are there to support and bring the European countries together on all levels, not to charges us because we are good at doing what they want us to do.