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Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 9/12/2017 11:28

Establish a minimum, living wage in each EU Member State
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3-Member State, Social policy - Social rights, Equality, Macroeconomic and Monetary policy, 2-Whole EU, Work - Employment, Scale at which decisions are taken, Policy domain
In each Member State, one can define a "living wage", i.e. the wage necessary for a family of 4 to live decently: providing food, housing, clothing, education, healthcare, access to culture and a capacity for savings. I propose that: (1) a methodology be defined at EU level to establish such a living wage, mobilising the official statistical bureau, the consumer and tenants associations, the employers and the trade unions (2) in each EU Member State, these entities define such a "living wage...
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 15/1/2017 17:04

Advertising destroys the democratic role of the press
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Political domain, Digitalisation, Institutions, Culture, Science - Technology - Innovation, Freedoms - Security
"If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold" Most business models on the Internet, and in the media industry, are based on a "free" access to the user - while those who actually pay are the companies purchasing advertising space to which the user is exposed. This dominant business model has a pernicious effect on the role that the press should play in a democracy. Those that actually control the media are not the users, they are the paying customers: the (big and smal...

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