The following vision for 2020 has been adopted by consensus at the General Assembly in Maribor 21-22 March 2015:
“Have UBI in at least one European Country and an EU-wide step towards an emancipatory UBI”
Additional resolutions are adopted by consensus as part of the strategy for 2020.
- Any step towards UBI should improve the situation of the poorest and the majority
- The EU needs to be more democratic
- UBI-Europe is aware, that the crisis management of the EU and their austerity policy is a severe obstacle for UBI. So we are part of the struggles to overcome them.
- UBI should improve current social welfare systems and complement public services
- UBI should reduce inequalities
For 2015, the following goals and objectives were agreed:
- Goal 1: Levy support in the EU Institutions and stakeholders and facilitate cooperation between them
- Get 100+ MEPs officially supporting UBI from 22 countries and 4 political groups
- Get official support from at least 5 EU-wide NGOs including Youth, Trade Union, Human Rights, Environment, Democracy
- Get the Social Affairs Commissioner and Juncker to express her opinion about UBI
- Goal 2: Make UBI a hot topic of the mainstream world
- Get basic income reported on 50 major media outlets
- Get 30 personalities to sponsor us publicly
- Get 10% of the European population to know about basic income (opinion survey)
- Goal 3: Asserting the feasibility of and arguments for UBI and make it a credible & attractive alternative for Europe
- Develop 10 detailed scenarios for EU wide steps toward Emancipatory UBI
- Elaborate concrete proposals for EU pilot projects:
- Collect and combine detailed models for UBI at national level
- Goal 4: Activate & grow UBI-Europe and make it appealing, fun and friendly!
- Make our diversity within the movement as a visible strength
- Pull out our identity and make it recognisable
- 1,000 individual members + 50 organisation members
- Accurately report in English all major news about UBI in Europe
- Get 300,000 likes on facebook
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