ESTONIA: Center-right political party creates working group to study basic income

ESTONIA: Center-right political party creates working group to study basic income

The center-right Estonian Free Party (Estonian: “Eesti Vabaerakond”) has established a working group to assess the potential for basic income in Estonia.

The goal of the Free Party’s working group is to determine what type of basic income policy–if any–would benefit Estonia. It aims to report its conclusions at the beginning of 2018. A report by Estonian Public Broadcasting cites the chair of the working group, Vahur Kollom , as saying that the group will consist of “visionaries, demographers, sociologists and taxation specialists.”

In a post on Eesti Vabaerakond’s website, party chairman Artur Talvik stressed that basic income is not […]

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