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Unternehmen Mitte
Unternehmen Mitte is coffee house and impulse for culture – coffee culture and hospitality – an oasis in the center of Basel that strives for the essential – meeting point and birthplace of social transformation – a place by people for people. Unternehmen Mitte encouraging self-empowerment: You don’t have to, you can!
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July 17, 2024CC / magazineApril 8, 2024Interview with Daniel Häni 25 years Unternehmen Mitte (Telebasel)September 28, 2023Conversation as a bridge (The Goetheanum)April 5, 2023“A simple tendering procedure has gotten completely out of hand” (Basler Zeitung)March 18, 2023Coffee mobile finds temporary shelter at Café Spitz (Basler Zeitung)March 9, 2023“A loss” - Canton bans popular coffee mobile (20 Minuten)March 7, 2023Kaffeemobil location on the Rhine remains abandoned for the time being (Basler Zeitung)February 2023La più grande caffetteria svizzera è bio (Dolcesalato)January 2023In the middle of the coffee world (Aroma)January 2023Prendere un caffè in banca (VdG Magazine)December 14, 2022New splendor for the city (ZEIT)October 28, 2022Electricity price “shock” for Basel’s largest coffee house (SRF Kassensturz Espresso)October 28, 2022Electricity price “shock” for Basel’s largest coffee house (SRF Regionaljournal)October 5, 2022Here you won’t get on anyone’s nerves with your laptop (Basler Zeitung)April 11, 2022These are the latest gastronomic hotspots in Basel (Basler Zeitung)April 6, 2022The ten best restaurants in Basel (NZZ Bellevue)January 26, 2022A chef from Portugal shakes up the Basel gastronomy scene with freshness (NZZ Bellevue)October 21, 2021Unternehmen Mitte opens gourmet restaurant (Basler Zeitung)April 23, 2020Countering the coronavirus crisis: Why Switzerland’s largest coffee house is now selling asparagus (Basler Zeitung)November 2018“Quality is not an ideology” (Swiss Heritage Society)September 14, 2017He wants more democracy (ZEIT)August 29, 2017Swiss export hit (Süddeutsche Zeitung)March 31, 2017Jacques Herzog: “Switzerland is too stubborn for visions” (NZZ Magazine)
April 3, 2014Coffee enjoyment of the slow kind (Hotel Revue)
June 4, 2014“Coffee is more than just a source of caffeine” (20 Minuten)May 25, 2013Metropolis Report Basel (Arte Metropolis)June 6, 2013The Thought Collector (ZEIT)March 24, 2010“We are better than our reputation!” (ZEIT)April 2010Money is a great enabler - Unternehmen Mitte, Basel (a tempo)June 2009A little closer to heaven (Basler Zeitung)1997-1999From the Villa Epoque to the center (Basler Zeitung)Basic Income
Switzerland was the first country to have carried out a referendum on an unconditional basic income. From 2006 until the referendum in 2016, Unternehmen Mitte became the gravitational hub of the initiative.
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September 5, 2023Can unconditional basic income make us freer? (philosophie.ch)May 2021The Art of Basic Income (Kunstforum International)July 16, 2020Corona puts unconditional basic income back on the table (SRF Regionaljournal)May 15, 2020“There are machines for diligence and obedience” (Swissinfo)December 13, 2016“Trump would never have won with a basic income” (Handelszeitung)May 13, 2016Benefit for all (SPIEGEL)March 27, 2016Grand masters of political theater (Sonntagsblick)March 19, 2016“There’s enough for everyone!” (NZZ)January 28, 2016“A person should get what they need to live” (SPIEGEL)April 13, 2016“The laziness argument doesn’t hold water” (Basler Zeitung)March 6, 2015“At best, money is a means to freedom” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)2014The spoilsport (GDI Impulse)2014Means or End (Trans-Magazine)2014“You have to do democracy yourself” (Brand eins)April 8, 2014Generation Basic Income (ORF 2)April 7, 2014The basic income for everyone (Bayerisches Fernsehen)July 4, 2013Thinking new thoughts (Gastro Journal)September 2013Generation Basic Income (Info3)November 27, 2010Daniel Häni - Basic income for all (SRF “Schweizweit”)October 15, 2009The tower builder in Basel (taz)august 2008If you don’t have to, you can (Brand eins)1997-1999From the Villa Epoque to the Center (Basler Zeitung)
UM-MEDIA RELEASES
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March 10, 2023Appeal submitted for coffee mobileMarch 6, 2023The history of our coffeemobile on the RhineFebruary 8, 2023Information from the managementFebruary 1, 2023Media release Carneval 2023June 2, 2022New opening of Café Rosa in the parkMarch 29, 2022UM is OrganicMarch 21, 2022Event with sociologist Hartmut RosaDecember 19, 2021Unternehmen Mitte builds a stall in front of its main buildingOctober 21, 2021Results after external reviewMay 12, 2021Ergebnisse nach externer PrüfungMarch 31, 2021Renewal of UM has begunMarch 24, 2021UM Management alters courseMarch 21, 2021To the WoZ article by Renato Beck