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Madrid elections: the right wing wins in the best ‘Trumpist’ style This post is also available in: Spanish From left to right, United We Can, More Madrid, PSOE, PP and VOX (Image by Menachem Beguín) The most conservative right together with the extreme right -Partido Popular plus VOX- gets 78 deputies, compared to the 58 who have added between Mas Madrid, PSOE and Unidas Podemos. The most conservative right won in the best Trumpist and network trolls style, with a speech full of lies, insults and empty of content. And all this, in the name of f...

EU Social Summit Ensure Security and Dignity for All Brussels (MOREL)- When EU leaders meet for the Porto Social Summit this weekend, they should show real commitment to the needs of European citizens facing hardship and precarious situations. Rather than expecting wonders from the failed workfare paradigm, they should embrace a new concept of social citizenship. It is time to move towards an unconditional guarantee of economic existence and dignity for all. Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) welcomes the Portuguese EU presidency’s focus on EU citizens’ social rights and prot...

UBI4ALL: a self-funded pilot project This post is also available in: Greek A European initiative invites us to crowdfund Basic Incomes of 800 euros for one year. The lucky ones will be chosen through a raffle and then will tell us their experience and the changes in their daily lives so that through these testimonies we can learn what it is like to live in the 21st century Europe with a basic income of 800 euros every month. This initiative was launched to support the petition of the European Citizens Initiative for Unconditional Basic Incomes, which already has the 11% of the necessary signa...

Advocates for basic income have long argued that it is much more than just a poverty relief measure. It is a matter of common justice that would enhance freedom and provide basic security for all. A new survey across six major European countries shows that people understand its potential to improve their lives. Not only do large majorities in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain favour basic income pilots and basic income as a permanent policy. The survey also reveals the advantages people believe a basic income would bring for themselves. The poll, conducted independently by Yo...

The European Citizens’ Initiative for a Basic Income This post is also available in: Italian, Portuguese (Image by Stefan Bohrer) by Daniel Raventós – Julie Wark There are no precedents that can serve as a reference for Europe’s economic and social situation right now. The 2020 European Commission indicators show a drop of 8.3% for GDP growth, while the OECD sets the figure at about 9% for the eurozone. The country-by-country forecasts showing considerable inequality within the EU are calamitous and, with the resurgence of the pandemic and me...