Unconditional Basic Income Europe
Our Mission
Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) is an international network connecting activists and initiatives from 25 countries. We advocate for the implementation of Basic Income in Europe and its recognition as a Universal Human Right. As a result of our efforts, basic income is now entering the policy agenda in many European countries and on a European Union (EU) level. Together with you, we want to push this development even further.
Our Projects
Our Projects
Fighting against poverty and precarity in Europe: What is the proposal of European basic income advocates ?
How can the EU provide an answer to the upheavals of the labour market? While 40% of employers have difficulty finding candidates with the appropriate skills, precarious employment continues to rise. The next European elections are in May, 2019. It's time...
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Basic Income: Neither Left nor Right? Join us in Göteborg, 23-25 March 2018!
Who are, who should be our allies in the struggle for basic income? The weekend in Göteborg, Sweden 23-25 March 2018 will include a public meeting, seminars, workshops and our annual General Assembly.
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Lisbon UBIE Create-athon – September 2017
In connection with the 2017 BIEN Congress, Unconditional Basic Income Europe held a General Assembly on 24 September in Lisbon. Beyond discussing organisational issues like on the budget, the relationship to BIEN and the question if we want to introduce membership...
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Positions – Debates – Ideas
A Liberal Euro-Dividend
Reflecting on the critical global challenges that we are soon to confront, it is important to consider the repercussions that an Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) for all European citizens would have for entrepreneurship, progress, fairness and sustainability, and to...
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Basic income: Creator of Entrepreneurs
Does technological advancement make Unconditional Basic Income inevitable? Perhaps not. But we need it to compensate for the speed of the social change this technology brings us.
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Nothing Changes for the Better by Focusing on the Half-Empty Glass
As any idea gaining momentum, universal basic income attracts supporters as well as critics. As it attracts broad support from the whole political spectrum, differences in ideological assumptions come to the fore at the stage of policy design.
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Anja Askeland
Vice-Chair
“Unconditional Universal Basic Income is the best policy to realize Article 25 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Aurélie Hampel
Secretary
“I believe in the potential of Unconditional Basic Income to reduce suffering at work and mental health issues by offering the power for each individual to organise its own life.”
Barb Jacobson
Press Officer
“Basic Income beautifully combines the strands of my current and previous work into one key demand.”
Meet our activists
Anja Askeland
Vice-President
“Unconditional Universal Basic Income is the best policy to realize Article 25 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Aurelie Hampel
Secretary
“I believe in the potential of UBI to reduce suffering at work and mental health issues by offering the power for each individual to organise its own life.”
Barb Jacobson
Press Officer
“Basic Income beautifully combines the strands of my current and previous work into one key demand”