GERMANY: Basic Income proponent Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn returns to the German parliament

by | Mar 24, 2014 | News

By René Spalek (Own work) [CC-BY-2.0-de (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (2013)

[Michael Millar]

At the end of January Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn regained a place in the German parliament with the Green Party. He had served as member of parliament from 2008 until 2013, but this year he took over from Priska Hinz, an opponent of Basic Income.

A key batttleground is HartzIV, the basic unemployment benefit in Germany. Strengmann-Kuhn has called on the government to make big changes to the current system, with latest figures showing increasing numbers of recipients receiving cuts to their benefits.

As a co-founder of the German BIEN, Strengmann-Kuhn has numerous Basic Income-related publications and will argue for it amongst policy makers.

For more information, see (in German):

Herbert Wilkens, “Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn wieder Bundestagsabgeordneter [Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn again a member of the Bundestag]”, Netzwerk Grundeinkommen, February 21 2014

Christoph Cuntz, “Erneut als Nachrücker in den Bundestag [Again as successor in the parliament]”, Oberhessische Zeitung, January 8 2014

Markus Sievers, “Mehr Sanktionen gegen Hartz-IV-Bezieher [More sanctions against Hartz IV recipients]”, Berliner Zeitung, March 16 2014

BERLIN, Germany: “Workshop Grundeinkommen auf der Aktionskonferenz Care Revolution [Basic Income Workshop on the Action Conference Care Revolution]”, March 15 2014

by | Mar 21, 2014 | News

Plakat Care Revolution

Plakat Care Revolution

[Michael Millar]

Event: “Workshop Grundeinkommen auf der Aktionskonferenz Care Revolution [Basic Income Workshop on the Action Conference Care Revolution]”

Place: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, Berlin

Time: 1400 – 1600, March 15 2014

Language: German

For more information, go to: https://care-revolution.site36.net/