Manifesto CoreEconomy, Property, Finance and Work
Housing and Financialization
Housing should principally serve habitation and community rather than function as an endlessly appreciating financial asset.
Policy catalogueEconomy, Property, Finance and Work
Agreed PolicyFinance, Lending and Usury
Finance should serve productive activity. Legitimate lending and reasonable return are accepted; exploitative interest and debt traps are not.
Position
Finance should serve productive activity. Restore Europe accepts legitimate lending and a reasonable return on capital, while opposing exploitative interest, predatory lending and debt traps.
Policy
- Tight restrictions or caps on payday-style predatory lending.
- Transparent disclosure of the full cost of credit.
- Restrictions on abusive late fees and compounding penalties.
- Courts may void clearly unconscionable loan terms.
- Policy should favour productive lending for homes, family businesses and long-term investment.
- Local and regional banking encouraged.
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- Manifesto CoreEconomy, Property, Finance and Work
Private Property and Broad Ownership
Property is a source of independence and responsibility. The answer to concentration is wider ownership, not the abolition of property.
- Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Gambling
Gambling may remain lawful in limited adult forms, strictly regulated against addiction, fraud and exploitation.
- Manifesto CoreEconomy, Property, Finance and Work
Economic Order
Restore Europe rejects both unrestricted capitalism and centralized socialism. Its economic ideal is distributist in ownership and corporatist in organization.
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