List Guaranteed Livable Income for everyone



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All citizens of the European Union should receive an unconditional basic monthly income. This amount shall be paid out individually in Euro, and should ensure one’s existence and basic participation in society. For minors or other non-contractually capable people, a basic income shall be paid to parents or legal guardians. A basic income constitutes an individual entitlement and is not bound to any obligation whatsoever. There is no requirement to work and no scrutiny of one’s assets. The level of the basic income would be set at regular intervals through an European Union-wide referendum.

Explanatory Statement


The European Union is a project of peace between Europeans, as well as between people of the world. Personal social security is a condition for peace, and the GLI is the most simple and effective solution for ensuring such security for all members of the community.

Due to the European Union’s integration process, member-states are no longer capable of completely independent policy. The interdependency of currency, economic, employment, and social politics makes it inevitable to guarantee the social security of the people on an European Union-wide scale.

Today, the European Union seems to symbolize bureaucracy, complicated treaties, and a legislature with advantages that are not transparent to its citizens. In contrast, an unconditional basic income is void of bureaucracy and easy to understand - the significance of the individual’s security of existence is obvious.

The European Union distributes excessive subsidies for industry and agriculture, from which jobs should be created. In reality, however, only few benefit from these actions. A GLI for all European Union citizens would create jobs, as recipients would either spend or invest their money. A basic income stimulates the economy, and has the added difference of creating jobs specifically demanded by the citizens. Concrete economic decisions will therefore be decentralized. There is no doubt that decentralized economies - compared to centrally controlled ones – prosper in the medium- and long-terms.

See also: http://livableincome.org


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