The 5+1 Challenges

Governments should provide state-of -the-art public services for the benefit of their citizens and residents. This includes:

• digitalising public services to reduce waste and to improve efficiency and service quality,
• modernising education systems,
• making high-quality healthcare available to everyone,
• providing a fair and transparent legal system, effective law enforcement, and fighting corruption and tax evasion,
• guaranteeing digital rights and freedom,
• strongly supporting research.

European economies must be the engine of society’s progress and allow for a decent living standard for everyone. With this in mind we want to:

• aim for leadership in innovation,
• tackle unemployment by innovative working schemes, a European labour platform, and by easing the setting-up of small businesses,
• rebuild economically challenged areas
• push for a circular economy,
• foster a European Artificial Intelligence Initiative,
• introduce a Europe-wide corporate tax,
• create a unified European social and fiscal system.

Every person in Europe must be guaranteed equal rights and opportunities. To achieve this we want to introduce policies that

• stop inequalities and discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, descent, or skin colour,
• alleviate poverty and homelessness, e.g. by social housing, accessibility to social benefits, and free healthcare for everybody,
• guarantee free education to all, from pre-primary to higher and vocational education,
• emphasize a person’s right to their own body by Europe-wide harmonized rules concerning reproductive rights, sex-work, and ending life with dignity.

We want to establish policies in line with the Sustainable Development Goals in areas such as

• climate change,
• international fair trade,
• sustainable farming,
• food security,
• biodiversity,
• international development cooperation.

In the area of migration we advocate

• a new “burden-sharing” refugee system,
• removing existing legal barriers for labour migration,
• setting-up an international system to prevent and address refugee crises,
• putting an end to statelessness in Europe.

Europeans should be empowered to

• take informed political decisions,
• be able to influence politics beyond elections alone,
• exercise their democratic rights within vibrant, resilient and highly deliberative democracies.
• Our policies are based on best practices regarding the fostering of a pluralistic information and media landscape, tools & technologies for political engagement and empowerment, and ways in which democracies can be made to thrive.

• The European Union is our common project: we have managed to come together and build a Union that has ensured peace and prosperity for over sixty years.
• Yet, it has its shortcomings, which is why we want to reform and strengthen EU governance and institutions for
  • a more democratic, more transparent and stronger Europe,
  • a federal Europe.
• We propose concrete policies for more efficient EU action to promote and protect the interests of all European citizens.