Event report

The survey participants were offered to evaluate 9 ideas selected from the ideas already submitted to the Conference Platform, which at that time had received the highest level of support. From the selected ideas, the survey received the greatest support for the following ideas: 1. Fight against tax havens. (Aid 89 %, rather support 11 %) 2. To promote the well-being of citizens as a goal of European economic policy, so that economic competitiveness and gross domestic product growth go hand in hand with ensuring social justice and promoting quality employment. (Aid 83 %, 11 % rather support, 6 % hard to say) 3. To make it easier for people who work in different EU countries during their lives, as well as for remote workers who live in one country and work for a company in another Member State, as this is currently complicated by the different tax and social support systems in the Member States. (Support 67 %, rather support 28 %, 6 % hard to say) Finally, respondents were invited to make their suggestions on how to encourage the European economy to work for people. The following ideas were presented: • Capital goods must be owned by the public. Facilitate the establishment and operation of workers’ cooperatives. More banks and businesses in public ownership! • Draw attention to the links between education and science and industry, business. • Conditions identical to all countries. • With unconditional basic incomes (BPIs), the European economy would work for people. BPIs are fair, can eradicate poverty and have huge potential for the future. By receiving BPI everyone would be able to participate in society, the green course and the digital transition. It would be like a airbag, a foundation for lifelong learning, it would provide opportunities to start your own small business or find the most suitable job for you. • Not to force everything alone on the economy and the growth of the consumer society under the title, but to create societies convinced of the European idea that it is a value in itself for a free person. • Explain to people the importance of being economically aware and show the benefits it guarantees. • Educating the public and creating children at materially rewarded activities. • Promote the realisation of innovative ideas and the production of finished products through cooperation projects between EU countries. • Locally important, globally interesting. • Encourage support and support for social entrepreneurship actors or enterprises or organisations that think equally about achieving economic value and benefit (profit) and addressing social challenges or social benefits for a target group or society as a whole, to encourage entrepreneurs (through awareness raising) to reduce their cravings for only increasing their well-being. • Improve the support system for young entrepreneurs in all EU Member States. • Educating the public in the field of entrepreneurship. • Align hourly rates across all countries to a much less similar level. • Introduce an unconditional basic income that would guarantee a degree of safety and sometimes even exist *** Survey participants were between 29 and 83 years old. 50 % of the participants of the survey were from Kuldīga region, but there were several participants from other Kurzeme regions and cities (33 %), as well as from other places in Latvia. The majority of respondents were women (13), 4 men participated, one did not want to indicate gender.