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The appeal has been signed by the UNI Europa acting Regional Secretary, Oliver Röthig, and calls for progressive policies, in particular: for productive public investments, for an equitable tax system, balanced towards less taxation of work income and more taxation of capital income and for a tax on financial transactions.



The EU is about to take decisions that will seriously affect the future of its citizens. Proposals now before EU governments and the European Parliament would impose unprecedented austerity measures that would lead to more job losses, social exclusion and poverty in Europe.

Progressive Members of the European Parliament, including their leader Martin Schulz, former prime ministers, academics, trade union and civil society figures, sound a warning. In an online appeal at www.changeforeurope.eu, they urge EU citizens to join them in a campaign to change Europe.

The appeal – which is now open for signatures – denounces the current approach of cutbacks alone, claiming that it threatens growth, jobs and investment. The appeal advocates an alternative to the austerity measures put forward by right-wing politicians in Europe. Measures called for in the appeal include the introduction of Eurobonds to draw together some of the member states' debt, work on the foundations of an EU-wide fiscal policy and a tax on financial transactions. They called all of those, who believe in a fairer way out of the crisis that will strengthen Europe instead of weakening it, to join them!