FRANCE: French minister Ségolène Royal backs Hamon’s basic income proposal

FRANCE: French minister Ségolène Royal backs Hamon’s basic income proposal

The French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royal, has expressed some support for Socialist candidate Benoît Hamon’s basic income proposal, and noted that the idea has been “unjustly caricatured”.

As recently covered by Basic Income News, Hamon’s proposal involves introducing an unconditional basic income of 600 euro per month for young people in 2018, before eventually rolling out to all citizens and increasing to 750 euro per month.

In a television interview for France 3, Royal had the following to say: “I find that this idea has been unjustly characterised. Eminent economists have shown that it’s not about […]

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