GERMANY: Schleswig-Holstein coalition shows interest in exploring basic income (but no pilot yet)

GERMANY: Schleswig-Holstein coalition shows interest in exploring basic income (but no pilot yet)

The end of June saw the proliferation of rumors that a basic income experiment would be launched in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. While such rumors were inaccurate, a political coalition in the state has called to further research in basic income.

The June 25th edition of the newspaper Flensburger Tageblatt , the daily newspaper of the city of Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, heralded the purported plans of the state government to introduce an experiment of basic income. The paper quoted Robert Habeck, Green Party leader and future minister of environment, as saying that “we want to test a basic […]

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