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10/02/2012
First European Fair of Social Enterprises and Cooperatives of Persons with Disabilities
From 29th March to 1st April, the National Union of Worker Producers' Co-operatives of Bulgaria (NUWPC) will organize the First European Fair of Social Enterprises and Cooperatives of persons with disabilities during the International Fair in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. During the Fair, a European conference will also be held on "Social Entrepreneurship and Europe 2020" with participation of representatives of the European Commission and other European institutions. This forum will discuss the new European initiatives aimed at promoting of social entrepreneurship. Read more.
8/02/2012
Employment increases by 7.2% in cooperatives during the last quarter in Spain
The latest figures from the cooperative movement demonstrate, once again, that worker cooperatives offer a future way out for enterprises in a time of crisis, such as the one which we are experiencing today. Read more.
24/01/2012
The Debt Trap
Capital and the Debt Trap opens up new ways of thinking in the view of the recent financial crisis which has had a devastating impact around the globe. Thousands of businesses have closed, millions of jobs have been cut and many people have lost their homes. Read more.
19/01/2012
CECOP will produce a documentary about the resilience of cooperatives to the crisis
CECOP is working on a documentary on the resilience of the cooperatives and participative enterprises in industry and services to the crisis. The film will bring forward emblematic examples of restructuring measures by cooperatives in four European countries: the Foundry de l’Aisne, an enterprise in crisis transformed into a cooperative in France, the MONDRAGON Corporation, the 7th largest industrial group in Spain, Muszynianka, a producer of mineral water in Poland and Consorzio SIS, a social cooperative consortium in Italy. Read more.
14/01/2012
Anis Chowdhury (United Nations): “Cooperatives, a viable alternative to the dominant economic paradigm”
Anis Chowdhury, Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), stated that the cooperative movement “has the potential to present itself as a viable alternative to the dominant economic paradigm”. He took part in the debate “The Way Forward”, on cooperatives and development organised by CICOPA in Cancun, for which he recently issued a message saying that it came “at a crucial juncture of the global economy”. Read more.
12/01/2012
Launch of the International Year of Cooperatives at European Level
CECOP-CICOPA Europe, together with the other European cooperative organisations, launched today the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives at EU level in the presence of Pervenche Berès, Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Member of the European Parliament and several representatives of the cooperative movement. Read more.
10/01/2012
Slovakia: when a natural disaster strikes
by Helena Cápová, Coop Product Slovakia . After the earthquakes that hit Japan and Spain last year, CICOPA wants to give a little hope to the people who have suffered from natural disasters by sharing the story of Eurokov Orlov, a worker cooperative active in the construction sector in Slovakia. Read more.
16/12/2011
European Commissioner Laszlo Andor mentions the example of the Mondragon group
On 8th December, the conference “The social economy in the European agenda” was organised by the Social Economy Intergroup of the European Parliament. The aim of the conference was to analyse legal frameworks and support structures necessary for the development of social economy enterprises, as well as their contribution to social innovation. The impact of the European Commissions’ initiative on social business was also analysed. Read more.
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