Yannick Vanderborght (Saint Louis University Brussels, and Basic Income Earth Network) briefly presents the idea of an Unconditional Basic Income at a conference on social cohesion, held at the EU Parliament on February 19, 2014. The audio is dubbed into English. The video includes some PowerPoint slides in French. The video is also available in French, and in Greek. Yannick
» Read moreSUMMARY: Basic Income for Children (BIC) is a universal income transfer unconditionally granted to all families with children, without means test or work requirement. The authors use the European tax-benefit micro simulation model to estimate the effects of their version of BIC. Their model computes tax liabilities and benefit entitlements for all households in European Union (EU) member states based
» Read moreGreg’s Blog, “Why Do I Support the Unconditional Basic Income Initiative?” Greg’s Blog. November 15, 2013.
» Read moreSahar Habib Ghazi, “Unconditional Basic Income for All Europeans,” Global Voices, 20 December 2013.
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The European Citizens Initiative (ECI)(See Explanatory Note below) for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) officially ended on Tuesday January 14th 23.59pm, after collecting at least 280,000 statements of support from EU citizens in 28 countries. The exact number won’t be known until collation and official verification of all online signatures and those on paper is completed in mid-February. The initiative did
» Read more[Michael Millar] Info: Stefan Ziller, “Noch 11 Tage: Grundeinkommen auf dem Kirchentag [11 days left: Basic Income on Church Day]“, 100 für Grundeinkommen, January 3 2014.
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Press release from the European Citizens Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income Europe UPDATE: As of December 5th, 31 MEPs have signed the statement of support. Twenty-nine members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 12 different European Countries issued a joint statement (pdf) expressing their support for the European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) for Unconditional Basic Income. This calls upon the European
» Read moreEuropean Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income has a webpage with daily updates on the number of signatures collected for the initiative. As of December 11, 2013, more than 166,285 people have signed the petition in favor of a basic income for the European Union. The proposals requires 1,000,000 signatures of EU citizens to spark a response by the
» Read moreThe European Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income has opened a crowd-funding (or crowd-sourcing) campaign. They are calling on basic income supporters to donate to help finance the collection of the rest of the 875,000 signatures needed to pass the initiative. The crowd-sourcing initiative is inspire by Croatia, which in September 2013, started promoting their built basic income website and
» Read more[Craig Axford] On October 24th, Slovenia joined Croatia to become the second EU nation reaching the required number of signatures on the Basic Income Initiative in Europe. If the initiative receives one million signatures and receives the required level of support in at least seven EU member nations, the EU will evaluate a basic income guarantee in Europe. For more
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