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This chapter translates the theoretical insights of the previous chapters into real-life policy proposals. They range from the scandalously ambitious to the prosaic. Their purpose is to offer a glimpse of what another Europe could look like: one that celebrates its diversity, transforms its citizens into a European public, and looks after the future of its younger generations. All these policy proposals—from the creation of a European basic income to a new holiday that celebrates the future, and from free school lunches to the funding of public start-ups—offer ways of rethinking Europe beyond the market.
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de Witte, F. (2020). Ten Policy Ideas for re:generation Europe. In: re:generation Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19788-9_6
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