IMO yes. As I see it, this is countries with high taxes being jealous of countries with lower taxes, and so instead of maybe lowering taxes to become more competitive, they - along with the bloated EU leadership - bully the countries with a logically lower tax into raising theirs, so the bullies feel better about themselves and don't lose "their" tax money.
This is the inherent problem of the EU, from both a social and economic standpoint; the member countries lose their competitive advantages over other countries because the socialistic EU bureaucrats can't handle any one country a) having any type of competitive advantage over another and b) not conforming to what they want.
In the past, before the EU single market and widespread free trade agreements, a country would simply raise a customs duty when another country would overly subsidize an industry. Or they would raise the customs duty merely to protect their domestic industry. Or because they don’t like that country for some other reason.
A large purpose of the EU is to remove those trade barriers to make the economy more efficient. Of course some countries figure out how to take advantage of the single market using regulatory arbitrage, quickly entering a race to the bottom. Thus the EU is becoming the regulator in a lot of (non-tax) areas to prevent this. This is just the next logical step in this regard.
It’s worth noting that any EU rules on taxation are decided with unanimous consensus. No country here has to do anything against their will.
This is the inherent problem of the EU, from both a social and economic standpoint; the member countries lose their competitive advantages over other countries because the socialistic EU bureaucrats can't handle any one country a) having any type of competitive advantage over another and b) not conforming to what they want.