UBI - A Basic Income for Europe (Webinar)
Channel: Green European Foundation
Date: 09/12/2021

This webinar is part of our project  'A welfare state of the 21st century'. The Green European Foundation has been working on the topic of Universal Basic Income (UBI) for several years with the aim of opening a debate across Europe. We are now joining forces with other social actors to give this effort a broader scope.

During this session, we sought to analyse whether a European UBI is possible. We put the focus on what benefits a European income would bring compared to nationwide implementation and how institutions could finance it.

Speakers:
• Malcolm Torry. Dr. Malcolm Torry is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath and treasurer of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), and was until recently a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and director of the Citizen’s Basic Income Trust. He has written a number of books about Basic Income, and for nearly twenty years has researched the financial feasibility of illustrative Basic Income schemes.
 
• Klaus Sambor. One of the main initiators of activities surrounding basic income in Austria and in Europe and one of the main organizers of the European Citizens’ Initiative “Start Unconditional Basic Incomes (UBI) throughout the EU”, which is taking place in all countries of the European Union.
 
Moderation:
Ewa Suffin-Jacquemart.  Member of the Board of the Green European Foundation and Director of the Polish green foundation Fundacja Strefa Zieleni.
 

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This event was organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of Transición Verde and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this event.