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| Unconditional Basic Income Europe NEWSLETTER – April 2021 |
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| 1000 ideas for basic income campaigning |
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| Dear Friend, |
| A few days ago, Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) met for its annual General Assembly. Among other discussions, we agreed on our priorities for the coming year.
Besides the ongoing European Citizens’ Initiative, we also want to put an emphasis on promoting UBI within political parties, creating alliances with ecological movements, exploring the connections between UBI and digitalisation, as well as influencing the debate on the European Pillar of Social Rights from a non-workfare perspective.
Of course, we will keep pushing the EU, member states, regions and municipalities to start basic income experiments, we will also continue lobbying for an European response to the pandemic crisis with a basic income perspective, and we will support awareness raising activities such as the Basic Income Tea webinar series, the Wow! Basic Income! exhibition and International Basic Income Week.
At the General Assembly, also a new UBIE Core Group has been elected. Alessandra Bianchi from Belgium remains our Chair, Dániel Fehér (Hungary) and Antonios Triantafyllakis (Greece) continue as Vice Chairs, as does Ulrich Schachtschneider (Germany) in the capacity of our Treasurer. We welcome Maria Quirimit (Greece) as our new Secretary and would like to use the occasion to thank Vladan Lausevic from Sweden, who held this post over the past 2.5 years for his dedicated work on the board!
We also would like to thank all participants of the General Assembly and all other members of UBIE for their continued support and we’re looking ahead of bringing forward the basic income idea and the movement in the coming two years! |
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| Yours unconditionally,
The UBIE Core Group: Ulrich, Alessandra, Dániel, Maria and Antonios |
| Citizens Take Over Europe |
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| One of the main decisions of the 2021 UBIE General Assembly was to join the campaign coalition “Citizens Take Over Europe”.
This alliance emerged in the spring 2020 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. It is made of a group of civil society organisations, like ours, citizens and residents from across Europe, joined in a common effort to promote a forward-looking and citizens-centred European democracy.
On Europe Day 2020 (9th May), the European Union was supposed to launch its Conference on the Future of Europe – another institutional process in which citizens would have little to say about their future. Instead, the Citizens Take Over coalition has reclaimed a political transnational space for citizens by means of an online conference to discuss problems Europeans are facing and co-develop solutions from a political, social and personal perspective. Now, the alliance is advocating for a Conference on the Future of Europe that puts citizens at the heart of the process. |
| Latest news |
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| Post-COVID recovery strategy for the EU At our next Basic Income Tea talk, Ulrich Schachtschneider (UBIE) will discuss with Adrienne Goehler (BI activist and author) and Hanna Ketterer (University of Jena, Kolleg Post Growth Societies) the question, whether and how Basic Income could support the transformation into an economy which is no longer dependent on constant economic growth.
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| Post-COVID recovery strategy for the EU UBIE founding member Valerija Korošec has published an article about a post-covid social strategy for the EU suggesting that the European Commission examine the idea of a European Universal Basic Income.
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| Emergency Basic Income during the Pandemic How could a basic income system work during a pandemic? An article by Jurgen de Wispelaere and Leticia Morales explores this.
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| Basic Income Conversation Toolkit Would you like to become better in promoting basic income? Now it is possible to download a toolkit with instructions and methods for basic income activism via Basic Income Conversation.
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Legal representative: Alessandra Bianchi (Chair)
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