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