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Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 13/8/2018 13:14

Suppress unanimity rules in social & fiscal matters in the EU
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Social policy - Social rights, Policy domain, Institutions, Public Finance - Taxation
In the current state of the Treaties governing the European Union, the rules on the following fields of social policy are subject to unanimity decision by the Council (representing Member States), with no intervention by the Parliament (TFEU Art.153(2)) : (c) social security and social protection of workers; (d) protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated; (f) representation and collective defence of the interests of workers and employers; (g) conditions of employment...
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 31/10/2018 13:50

Make sports free from advertising and sponsoring
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Public Policy Proposal, Social policy - Social rights, Policy domain, Sports - Youth - Associative life, Audio-visual and Media, Equality, Type of action, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale at which decisions are taken, 2-Whole EU
The economic model of sports relies mainly on advertising and sponsoring by commercial companies. Sports are thus dominated by the narrow oligarchy of multinational sponsors and advertisers, whose purpose is to leverage the positive image of sport in our societies to sell their products or services. Sport is now a global business - whereas its spirit originally was, and should remain, that of a healthy leisure activity. This domination of sports by the economic interests of advertisers and sp...
Inactive working group with 2 members

Make sports free from advertising and sponsoring [stub]
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Public Policy Proposal, Social policy - Social rights, Policy domain, Sports - Youth - Associative life, Audio-visual and Media, Equality, Type of action, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale at which decisions are taken, 2-Whole EU
[This proposal is still a work in progress. Much more needs to be done, once the working group has reached its quorum] Prevent sports from being taken over by the economic interests of advertsing companies, in a radical way: prohibit advertising during sports events and around the broadcasting of sports events. Thereby, sports would use a much more distributed (and thus more democratic) business model, based upon entry tickets to stadiums, membership fees in associations and pay-per-view broad...
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 Simon Schroeder the 10/12/2017 19:07

Create a common European Corporation Tax
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Policy domain
In recent times the ways of powerful multi-national corporations avoiding fair taxation within the European Union have increasingly come to light. Immoral tax rates for corporations in Ireland and Luxembourg are encouraging a race to the bottom. A system were we have 27 different tax rates for corporations which benefit from the common market defies any common sense.
Inactive working group with 2 members

(Do X…) to organise and manage an orderly and just decline of the automotive industry [Public Policy Proposal stub]
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Political domain, Work - Employment, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Industry, Land use planning & Geographic cohesiveness
The automotive industry has an enormous importance in terms of (1) environmental impact, (2) contribution to mobility and (3) economic value added and employment. Automotive use and production should decline over the next century - but this decline must be managed responsibly....
Inactive working group with 2 members

Establish an Environmentally-Sustainable Living Wage as the minimum wage in each EU Member State
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Social policy - Social rights, 2-Whole EU, Macroeconomic and Monetary policy, Scale at which decisions are taken, 3-Member State, Equality, Policy domain, Work - Employment
In each Member State one can define a "Environmentally Sustainanable Living Wage (ESLW)". We propose that: (1) a methodology be defined at EU level to establish such an ESLW; (2) in each EU Member State and region, this methodology be used to define such a ESLW, according to the local infrastructure or housing costs; (3) the EU adopt per Directive this ESLW as the mandatory minimum wage in the Member State or region. The mode of implementation of this minimum wage would be left to national legis...
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 14/1/2017 16:28

A Financial Transaction Tax levied on voting rights of shareholders
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Macroeconomic and Monetary policy, Public Finance - Taxation, Political domain
The justification of shareholders being the only ones who take decisions in companies is that they are supposed to have contributed most to its existence by providing the necessary capital. However, this only holds true for those who purchased the shares from the company upon its capital increase (on the "primary market"). All the others never brought any capital to the company itself: they just bought their shares from a previous owner, on a second-hand market (the "secondary market" on the S...
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