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Netflix case sent to EU court after Belgian ruling upholds streaming levy

By Júlia Tar ( March 26, 2026, 19:03 GMT | Insight) -- Netflix will see key legal questions in its challenge to a Wallonia-Brussels streaming levy — including its compatibility with the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive — decided at the EU level, after Belgium’s Constitutional Court upheld the system but referred core issues to the bloc’s top court in its judgement on Thursday.Netflix has largely lost its bid to annul a Wallonia-Brussels decree imposing a levy on streaming services, after Belgium’s Constitutional Court upheld the system but referred key questions to the EU’s top court....

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