EU Economy Commissioner Dombrovskis says the economy is proving resilient and that windfall tax will be addressed

The resilience framing is standard Commission messaging and, coming from Dombrovskis, tends to track the official forecast cycle rather than break new ground; it matters mainly for how it conditions the tone around fiscal stance and the next Commission projections. The windfall tax reference is the operative half: prior episodes of windfall levies in the bloc have followed a familiar sequence, headline pledge, prolonged discussion of scope and legal basis at member-state level, then either a diluted compromise or a patchwork of national measures, with the affected sector's spreads and bank or utility equities trading the probability rather than the announcement. The track record of EU-level windfall initiatives is that unanimity requirements and divergent national positions compress the eventual design, and the tell has been whether the language shifts from 'addressed' to a concrete proposal with a defined base and rate. Worth noting is which sector the remark is aimed at and whether it signals extension of an existing levy or a new instrument, since that separates a continuation story from a fresh regulatory overhang. As commentary without a proposal attached, this is directional signal only.