Photo: DPASchleswig-Holstein’s new state government is considering a project to bring in an unconditional basic income. “As a government we want to test out the unconditional basic income and make Schleswig-Holstein a model region,” the newspaper quoted the state’s new deputy minister-president Robert Habeck (Green Party) as saying. "We will create a 'laboratory for the future' in which we will look into security models such as a citizen’s income, an unconditional basic income, or the further development of the social security system,” the agreement states. While the Green Party are for introducing an unconditional basic income, the FDP only support it as long as unemployed people strive to look for work, thus calling into question the idea of it being unconditional. Advocates of the unconditional basic income say it would do away with the huge bureaucracy needed to administer welfare payments, which costs the taxpayer billions of euros a year.

Source: The Local June 27, 2017 15:22 UTC