Manifesto CoreFamily, Demography and Social Order
Family
The family formed around marriage is the fundamental social institution, and public policy should make marriage and child-rearing materially realistic.
Policy catalogueFamily, Demography and Social Order
Agreed PolicyWelfare and Social Assistance
A safety net directed primarily at citizens, families and those genuinely unable to support themselves, expressing solidarity without becoming permanent avoidable dependency.
Position
Restore Europe supports a social safety net directed primarily toward citizens, families and people genuinely unable to support themselves. Welfare should express solidarity without becoming a permanent system of avoidable dependency.
Policy
- Priority for citizens and their families, children, carers, disabled people, elderly people and households facing genuine hardship.
- Able-bodied working-age recipients normally expected to seek work, training or rehabilitation.
- Non-citizens normally expected to work and support themselves rather than migrate for long-term welfare.
- Contribution-based benefits may remain available to lawful foreign workers who have actually paid into the relevant system.
- Welfare fraud triggers repayment and proportionate penalties.
- Catholic, Christian and historic charitable institutions may play a major role, with transparent auditing of public funds.
Principle
Family, parish and local institutions should act before remote central bureaucracy, where they can competently do so.
Implementation note
Implementation note
Eligibility here turns on citizenship and contribution record, not on ethnicity. Restricting benefits by nationality would also engage equal-treatment rules for lawfully resident workers in several European systems.
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Related positions
- Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Citizenship: General Principle
Citizenship is membership of a historical political community rather than a function of residence, and Restore Europe rejects automatic territorial birthright citizenship as a general rule.
- Agreed PolicyHealthcare
Universal Healthcare Access
Universal access to essential and medically necessary care, with safeguards against overuse and waste.
- Manifesto CoreGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Authority, Democracy and Subsidiarity
Power should be exercised at the lowest competent level. Elections, representation and constitutional limits coexist with a rejection of philosophical liberalism.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.