European Citizens Initiative Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Overview: 1. ECI - UBI 2020 / 2022 2. Subjective matters and objectives 3. Successful ECI 4. Campaigning Countries 5. Milestones and meetings 6. Newsletter "inform supporters“ 7. Social Media Campaign 8. European raffle 9. Contact, Website, Social Media

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ - 1, 5 year long the UBI activists, initiatives and organisations in the EU are asked to support the initiative (extended from 1 to 1, 5 year in respect of Covid-19 -Pandemic) - begin of collection was the 25 th September 2020, signatures could collected online, but also in paper form in all EU-languages, end of collection is the 25 th of March 2022 official EU-website: https: //europa. eu/citizensinitiative/initiatives/details/2020/000003_en our website: https: //eci-ubi. eu/

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Subject Matter: Our aim is to establish the introduction of unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU which ensure every person´s material existence and opportunity to participate in society as part of its economic policy. The aim shall be reached while remaining within the competences conferred to the EU by the Treaties.

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Objectives: We request the EU Commission to make a proposal for unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU, which reduce regional disparities in order to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU. This shall realize the aim of the joint statement by the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission, stated in 2017, that „the EU and its member states will also support efficient, sustainable and equitable social protection systems to guarantee basic income“ in order to combat inequality.

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ The signatories only support the launch of the introduction process, but do not describe to the commission exactly how the implementation of the UBIs should take place. But in the ANNEX, which is included in the official registered ECI, the general principals of UBI are described unconditional, universal, individual and high enough to ensure a material existence and participation in society which meets society‘s social and cultural standards in the country concerned (at least above the at-of-risk-threshold according the EU-standards – 60% of the respective national median net equivalent income, checked by a basket of goods and services) as well as the provisions of the „Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU“ and „Treaty on European Union (TEU)“ and „Treaty on Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)“, which are necessary for an UBI implementation.

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Successful initiative if the citicens‘ initiative receives at least 1. 000 signatures and at least in 7 countries a certain treshold (which is given in the ECI rules) In this case a) a „Hearing“ at the European Commission and at the European Parliament will take place b) after that the European Commission has to explain in a justified manner their legal and political conclusions as well as their further action or the renunciation of further actions c) the European Parliament can support the ECI and it assesses the measures of the European Commission

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ At the moment we have „National Coordinators“ in 25 countries AT, BE, BG, CZ, DE, EE, FI, FR, EL, HR, HU, IE, IT, MT, LU, LV, NL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE - only in Cyprus and Denmark „National Coordinators“ are not yet available. But in spite of this, we got/get signatures from all 27 Member States, 3 rd March 2021: 108 thousand

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Top 13 (3 rd March 2021) Country Slovenia Latvia Greece Estonia Germany Spain Hungary Bulgaria Netherland Italy Portugal France Austria % (rounded) 111 52 50 43 41 39 34 31 26 21 15 14 14 Count (rounded) 6200 2900 7400 2100 27900 16400 5000 3700 5300 11400 2300 7800 1800

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Milestones and meetings 25 th September 2020 – Start 10 th December 2020 – Human Rights Day 1 st May 2021 – Basic Income Day 9 th May 2021 – Europe Day 20 th to 26 th September 2021 – 14 th International Basic Income Week bi-monthly: European coordination meetings (ECMs) regularly: meetings of ECI Coordination Team (ECT) meetings/contact to other ECI-Teams and European NGOs

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Newsletter „inform supporters“ Over 20 thousand (from more than 100 thousand) ECI-supporters would like to be informed about the ECI via newsletter. At the end of February we sent out the second newsletter, the third will follow at the end of March.

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Social Media Campaign - Media planning in the social media’s in the European Union Part 1: Creative Part – creative pool, translation, no copy rights, open source to participants, text in English, etc. Part 2: Campaign (technical issues and sponsoring) – technical support, optimization, targeting to sub-groups in the society

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ European raffle of UBI https: //ubi 4 all. eu “The UBI 4 ALL team is from several countries of the European Union. In the course of starting a ECI we asked ourselves how Unconditional Basic Income might impact other people in other countries. So we set up the UBI 4 ALL raffle in order to check out its effects. ” Participate and win an UBI for one year and help funding it! 800 € per month (9, 600 € per year) Participation is free of charge.

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Contact to the ECI organiser group Klaus Sambor klaus. sambor@aon. at Ronald Blaschke blaschke@grundeinkommen. de Website https: //eci-ubi. eu/ (incl. links to national websites) Facebook https: //www. facebook. com/ECIUBI Twitter https: //twitter. com/eciubi Instagram https: //www. instagram. com/eciubi/

European Citizens‘ Initiative „Start Unconditional Basic Incomes throughout the EU“ Thank you!