A European universal basic income

Proposals of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have proliferated enormously during the first decades of the 21st century, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020.

One of the reasons is the balance of the various allocations and subsidies currently supported by governments to deal with poverty, including guaranteed income, minimum income allowance, the living wage, etc., i.e. conditional incomes with very limited results.

These conditional benefits, seen in different European countries and around the world, suffer from a long-acknowledged series of problems that are intrinsic to conditionality, however generous.

The fundamental part of this research aims to answer the following question: can UBI be financed by the EU? And more specifically, to answer the key question of how it can be financed, through income tax, wealth tax and carbon tax?

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This publication is a joint initiative between Coppieters Foundation and Fundació Irla.

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This publication is financially supported by the European Parliament. The European Parliament is not liable for the content of the publication or the opinions of the authors.

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Header photo by JBlake Wheeleron Unsplash.

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