Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The attractiveness of the idea of the Basic Income –an unconditional cash payment for everybody in a country– has enormously increased over the last years in Europe and elsewhere. The financial crisis of 2008, but mostly the ongoing and expected Covid-19 consequences, have brought the Basic Income at stake. Scholars and policy-makers alike are now debating about introducing a Basic Income at the national level. But what about the European one? Much has been discussed about the ‘Eurobonds’ and different shared European fiscal frameworks. However, debates about common social policies seem to have been much more unattended. This webminar shall not claim for the introduction of an ‘European Basic Income’ as such. It will rather aim to show the actual debate about this idea first, and secondly, to provide participants with some key-arguments and useful data when discussing this controversial proposal.
Moderator:
Tatiana Moutinho, facilitator of transform! europe in the programme “Cooperation Strategies for Southern Europe" and the President of Cul:tra – Cooperativa Culturas de Trabalho e Socialismo (Portugal).
Adelina Escandell, retired teacher, graduate in Psychology, President of the Fundació l’Alternativa and Senator in the current Spanish legislature.
Invited participitans:
Bru Laín, is affiliate professor of Sociology and Political Theory at the University of Barcelona and a member of Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and the secretary of the Spanish Basic Income Network (RRB).
Jiry Mäntysalo is the chairperson of the Communist Youth of Finland and a member of the Trade Union Network of the European Left Party.
The attractiveness of the idea of the Basic Income –an unconditional cash payment for everybody in a country– has enormously increased over the last years in Europe and elsewhere. The financial crisis of 2008, but mostly the ongoing and expected Covid-19 consequences, have brought the Basic Income at stake. Scholars and policy-makers alike are now debating about introducing a Basic Income at the national level. But what about the European one? Much has been discussed about the ‘Eurobonds’ and different shared European fiscal frameworks. However, debates about common social policies seem to have been much more unattended. This webminar shall not claim for the introduction of an ‘European Basic Income’ as such. It will rather aim to show the actual debate about this idea first, and secondly, to provide participants with some key-arguments and useful data when discussing this controversial proposal.
Moderator:
Tatiana Moutinho, facilitator of transform! europe in the programme “Cooperation Strategies for Southern Europe" and the President of Cul:tra – Cooperativa Culturas de Trabalho e Socialismo (Portugal).
Adelina Escandell, retired teacher, graduate in Psychology, President of the Fundació l’Alternativa and Senator in the current Spanish legislature.
Invited participitans:
Bru Laín, is affiliate professor of Sociology and Political Theory at the University of Barcelona and a member of Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and the secretary of the Spanish Basic Income Network (RRB).
Jiry Mäntysalo is the chairperson of the Communist Youth of Finland and a member of the Trade Union Network of the European Left Party.
