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
Basic Income in the 2019 European Elections – Conference in Budapest, 23 November, 2018
With the European Elections of May 2019 on the horizon, we want to bring together ideas for a new European social contract, that binds countries and citizens in solidarity, while preserving individual freedom and dignity. With the inputs and thoughts of academics,...
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Liverpool Council passes motion to pilot Basic Income
A call for Liverpool to be the first English city to test a Universal Basic Income (UBI) was discussed at the City Council meeting 19 September. The motion, calling for Liverpool to pilot UBI 'under the next Labour Government' passed easily, although the leader of...
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The EYE has passed!
What should the EU prioritise when responding to the future of work? As Universal Basic Income supporters, we couldn't have anticipated better turnout at the European Youth Event 2018. On June 1-2 every two years, some 8000 participants rush through the gates of the...
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Positions – Debates – Ideas
Basic income is not left or right, it’s forward
As the public debate on basic income grows, so too does interest in public opinion on basic income policy. Hence, the Dalia Research surveys on basic income support, the Ipsos Mori Survey (UK) and most recently, the last round of the European Social Survey, have all...
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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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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”