The Euro-Dividend
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....
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Lisa Herzog
- Feb 6, 2019
- 9 min
Companies should be run by employees, and the EU should encourage new forms of cooperate governance
The EU should encourage new forms of cooperate governance. This can take on many forms: from self-organising teams to companies with two...
Juri Viehoff
- Feb 5, 2019
- 9 min
Introduce a European Memory Day
The ninth of May is officially “Europe Day”, but few people know this – and even fewer celebrate it. This should change. All EU member...
Nicholas Vrousalis
- Feb 4, 2019
- 8 min
The EU should institute a statutory maximum 35-hour workweek for all European workers
The European Union should institute a maximum working week of 35 hours in all member states. Nicholas Vrousalis argues that a 35-hour...
Peter Dietsch
- Feb 3, 2019
- 8 min
The European Central Bank distributes money.It should be mandated to do so fairly.
The European Central Bank should take into account the distributive effects of its monetary policy - at least when this policy results in...
Clement Fontan
- Feb 2, 2019
- 8 min
The European Union should protect its people before its banks
The EU should engage in meaningful financial regulation, including a tax on financial transactions and measures to deleverage the banking...
Gabriel Wollner
- Feb 1, 2019
- 7 min
Three cheers for a financial transaction tax
An international financial transaction tax is levied on transactions involving particular assets, such as stocks, bonds, currencies, or...
Jens van't Klooster
- Jan 31, 2019
- 8 min
A parliament for the eurozone
A newly created eurozone parliament should, among other tasks, oversee the European finance ministers, coordinate policy initiatives in...
Marco Meyer
- Jan 30, 2019
- 9 min
How to deal with persistent trade imbalances within the eurozone
The EU should make eurozone member states running persistent trade surpluses within the euro area pay a penalty. The EU’s existing...
Mara-Daria Cojocaru
- Jan 29, 2019
- 9 min
Europe should end factory farming
The EU should abolish intensive animal farming by 2030. Mara-Daria Cojocaru argues that despite a growing consensus that factory-farmed...
Ingrid Robeyns
- Jan 28, 2019
- 9 min
For a EU-wide tax on air travel to fight climate change
The European Union should institute high taxation on air travel in all member states. Ingrid Robeyns argues that right now, air travel...
Kalypso Nicolaidis
- Jan 27, 2019
- 10 min
Sustainable integration: The silver lining of a democratically challenged EU
The EU should act as the guardian of sustainable integration. Sustainable integration in this sense comprises but is broader than the...
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
- Jan 26, 2019
- 8 min
The EU and age discrimination: Abolish mandatory retirement!
The EU should adopt stricter standards on age discrimination and prohibit mandatory age retirement rules. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen argues...
Cecile Fabre
- Jan 25, 2019
- 8 min
In defence of EU armed forces
The EU should turn its existing (though never-deployed) armed battlegroups into fully operational and deployable armed forces. Cécile...
David Rodin
- Jan 24, 2019
- 8 min
Human rights must be the basis for the use of force by EU member states
The European Union should bind itself to a more exacting standard for the use of force by explicitly mandating that any use of military...
Peter Niesen
- Jan 23, 2019
- 8 min
Making Brexit Reversible
The EU should allow countries that leave the EU to unilaterally reverse that decision through a democratic vote. Countries should be able...
Mark Alfano
- Jan 22, 2019
- 6 min
Europe has a responsibility to help island nations hit hardest by climate change
The European Union should take the lead in offering not just visas but citizenship to residents of island nations that will soon be...
Boudewijn de Bruin
- Jan 21, 2019
- 9 min
The EU is not an end in itself, but a means to peace
The EU should not pursue any deeper integration but rather focus on preventing war in Europe. Boudewijn de Bruin argues that many people...
Rainer Forst
- Jan 20, 2019
- 8 min
Toleration in the European Union
In the EU, we should not tolerate member states restricting the right to religious freedom without proper reasons to do so. For example,...
Miriam Ronzoni
- Jan 19, 2019
- 9 min
The European Parliament should be elected on transnational lists
The European Parliament should be elected on transnational lists Miriam Ronzoni argues that European citizens feel increasingly alienated...
Richard Bellamy
- Jan 18, 2019
- 8 min
National parliaments should have a greater role in EU decision-making
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...
Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz
- Jan 17, 2019
- 8 min
Circles of solidarity – or how to reconcile the European and the 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...
Helder De Schutter
- Jan 16, 2019
- 9 min
The EU should erect a language academy for European English
If English becomes the global lingua franca, it should also become the property of mankind: Cosmopolitan ownership for English is to be...
Matthew Braham
- Jan 1, 2019
- 9 min
The project of freedom: Unity in diversity
The EU needs a political ethos that supplements and supports the letter of treaties and laws. The most plausible candidate for such an...