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Comment by Georges Dassis

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President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Europe needs radical social reform, including a basic income.
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed I found a closely matching passage attributed to Georges Dassis as EESC president: "Europe needs a radical social reform, including a basic income, Eurobonds and a financial transaction tax." ([openaccessgovernment.org](https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AG8-Web1.pdf?utm_source=openai)) The submitted wording is therefore not verbatim, because it drops the article "a" and omits the rest of the sentence without [...]. ([openaccessgovernment.org](https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AG8-Web1.pdf?utm_source=openai)) A secondary reference to the EurActiv op-ed "A Europe of progress close to its people" dates that piece to 16 October 2015, not 2016. ([fr.wikipedia.org](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Dassis)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Checked quote: "Europe needs radical social reform, including a basic income." by Georges Dassis (2016), then EESC President. Source URL (euractiv.com) blocks AI fetch access (no content retrievable), so I could not directly confirm the exact wording on the primary source. Web.archive.org is also not fetchable from this environment. However, strong contextual evidence supports the attribution: (1) A euractiv.fr article titled "Le nouveau président du CESE défend le revenu de base" explicitly frames Dassis's opinion piece as defending basic income; (2) Multiple independent sources (EMIN, FEPS, EESC press releases) confirm Dassis as rapporteur of the 2013 EESC opinion on a European minimum income and his continued advocacy throughout his 2015-2018 EESC presidency; (3) Vote alignment is correct — the "for" vote on "Implement a universal basic income" matches the pro-basic-income sentiment of the quote. Year (2016) is older than 2025-2026, but Dassis's EESC presidency ended in 2018 and no more recent public statements by him on this topic were found; he is no longer publicly active on this issue. Marking ai_unverifiable because the primary source is inaccessible to me, not because the quote appears inaccurate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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