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    Philippe Van Parijs

    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

    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...

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    Juri Viehoff

    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...

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    Nicholas Vrousalis

    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...

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    Peter Dietsch

    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...

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    Clement Fontan

    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...

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    Gabriel Wollner

    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...

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    Jens van't Klooster

    A parliament for the eurozone

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

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    Marco Meyer

    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...

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    Mara-Daria Cojocaru

    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...

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    Ingrid Robeyns

    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...

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    Kalypso Nicolaidis

    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...

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    Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

    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...

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    Cecile Fabre

    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...

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    David Rodin

    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...

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    Peter Niesen

    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...

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    Mark Alfano

    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...

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    Boudewijn de Bruin

    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...

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    Rainer Forst

    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,...

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    Miriam Ronzoni

    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...

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