Twelve Stars Articles

The EU should pay a modest basic income to every legal resident of the European Union or the eurozone, financed by the value added tax....

The EU should encourage new forms of cooperate governance. This can take on many forms: from self-organising teams to companies with two...

The ninth of May is officially “Europe Day”, but few people know this – and even fewer celebrate it. This should change. All EU member...

The European Union should institute a maximum working week of 35 hours in all member states. Nicholas Vrousalis argues that a 35-hour...

The European Central Bank should take into account the distributive effects of its monetary policy - at least when this policy results in...

The EU should engage in meaningful financial regulation, including a tax on financial transactions and measures to deleverage the banking...

An international financial transaction tax is levied on transactions involving particular assets, such as stocks, bonds, currencies, or...

A newly created eurozone parliament should, among other tasks, oversee the European finance ministers, coordinate policy initiatives in...

The EU should make eurozone member states running persistent trade surpluses within the euro area pay a penalty. The EU’s existing...

The EU should abolish intensive animal farming by 2030. Mara-Daria Cojocaru argues that despite a growing consensus that factory-farmed...

The European Union should institute high taxation on air travel in all member states. Ingrid Robeyns argues that right now, air travel...

The EU should act as the guardian of sustainable integration. Sustainable integration in this sense comprises but is broader than the...

The EU should adopt stricter standards on age discrimination and prohibit mandatory age retirement rules. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen argues...

The EU should turn its existing (though never-deployed) armed battlegroups into fully operational and deployable armed forces. Cécile...

The European Union should bind itself to a more exacting standard for the use of force by explicitly mandating that any use of military...

The EU should allow countries that leave the EU to unilaterally reverse that decision through a democratic vote. Countries should be able...

The European Union should take the lead in offering not just visas but citizenship to residents of island nations that will soon be...

The EU should not pursue any deeper integration but rather focus on preventing war in Europe. Boudewijn de Bruin argues that many people...

In the EU, we should not tolerate member states restricting the right to religious freedom without proper reasons to do so. For example,...

The European Parliament should be elected on transnational lists Miriam Ronzoni argues that European citizens feel increasingly alienated...

My proposal has two parts. Part 1 is for a “green card” or “parliamentary legislative initiative”, whereby 1/3 of MPs in 1/4 of national...

The main idea is to find ways to introduce the interests of the EU into the politics of its member states and to not let these two...

If English becomes the global lingua franca, it should also become the property of mankind: Cosmopolitan ownership for English is to be...

The EU needs a political ethos that supplements and supports the letter of treaties and laws. The most plausible candidate for such an...