Philippe Van ParijsThe Euro-DividendThe EU should pay a modest basic income to every legal resident of the European Union or the eurozone, financed by the value added tax. P...
Lisa HerzogCompanies should be run by employees, and the EU should encourage new forms of cooperate governanceThe EU should encourage new forms of cooperate governance. This can take on many forms: from self-organising teams to companies with two ...
Juri ViehoffIntroduce a European Memory DayThe ninth of May is officially “Europe Day”, but few people know this – and even fewer celebrate it. This should change. All EU member st...
Nicholas VrousalisThe 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 wor...
Peter DietschThe 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 FontanThe European Union should protect its people before its banksThe EU should engage in meaningful financial regulation, including a tax on financial transactions and measures to deleverage the banking...
Gabriel WollnerThree cheers for a financial transaction taxAn international financial transaction tax is levied on transactions involving particular assets, such as stocks, bonds, currencies, or d...
Jens van't KloosterA parliament for the eurozoneA newly created eurozone parliament should, among other tasks, oversee the European finance ministers, coordinate policy initiatives in t...
Marco MeyerHow to deal with persistent trade imbalances within the eurozoneThe EU should make eurozone member states running persistent trade surpluses within the euro area pay a penalty. The EU’s existing Macroe...
Mara-Daria CojocaruEurope should end factory farmingThe EU should abolish intensive animal farming by 2030. Mara-Daria Cojocaru argues that despite a growing consensus that factory-farmed m...
Ingrid RobeynsFor a EU-wide tax on air travel to fight climate changeThe European Union should institute high taxation on air travel in all member states. Ingrid Robeyns argues that right now, air travel co...
Kalypso NicolaidisSustainable integration: The silver lining of a democratically challenged EUThe EU should act as the guardian of sustainable integration. Sustainable integration in this sense comprises but is broader than the sus...
Kasper Lippert-RasmussenThe 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 FabreIn defence of EU armed forcesThe EU should turn its existing (though never-deployed) armed battlegroups into fully operational and deployable armed forces. Cécile Fab...
David RodinHuman rights must be the basis for the use of force by EU member statesThe European Union should bind itself to a more exacting standard for the use of force by explicitly mandating that any use of military f...
Peter NiesenMaking Brexit ReversibleThe EU should allow countries that leave the EU to unilaterally reverse that decision through a democratic vote. Countries should be able...
Mark AlfanoEurope has a responsibility to help island nations hit hardest by climate changeThe European Union should take the lead in offering not just visas but citizenship to residents of island nations that will soon be inund...
Boudewijn de BruinThe EU is not an end in itself, but a means to peaceThe EU should not pursue any deeper integration but rather focus on preventing war in Europe. Boudewijn de Bruin argues that many people ...
Rainer ForstToleration in the European UnionIn the EU, we should not tolerate member states restricting the right to religious freedom without proper reasons to do so. For example, ...
Miriam RonzoniThe European Parliament should be elected on transnational listsThe European Parliament should be elected on transnational lists Miriam Ronzoni argues that European citizens feel increasingly alienated...
