The decision n° 1672/2006 establishing a Community program for employment and social solidarity - PROGRESS, was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on 24 October and was published in the EU Official Journal o...
On Monday 26 March an intermediate workshop on the BEST project “Impact of Co-operative Groups on the Competitiveness of their Craft and Small Enterprise Members” EXCHANGE OF VIEWS AND PRACTICES took place at the Eu...
Summary of the decisions taken by the CECOP general assembly on 30 March 2007 (Brussels)
CECOP responded to the consultation opened with the Green Paper “Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st Century”, after an in-depth consultation among its members across Europe. Responding to the...
CECOP's position to the consultation on “Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century” - Final version
Agenda and working documents for the CECOP general assembly and the programme of the seminar which will be both held on 30 March 2007 in Brussels
CECOP position on Green Paper "Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century" - Version submitted to Cooperatives Europe and drafted on the basis of the inputs expressed during the CECOP seminar on...
Letter from Felice Scalvini, president of CECOP, to the Cooperatives Europe co-presidents
In an article published in the Economic section of the 27 February issue of Le Monde, CGSCOP President Patrick Lenancker requests a commitment from the candidates concerning public policies in favour of worker buy-outs.
News sent by CECOP member SOFICATRA- CoopEst is a new financial initiative for the development of social economy in Central and Eastern Europe. After a founding ceremony in December last year, where DG Regio Commissioner Danuta...
Brussels, 27 February (14h30 - 17h30), after the board meeting
Following the publication of its Green Paper « Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century”, the European Commission organises a consultation on the same subject. CECOP's participation seem...
On 16 January 2007, the European Parliament elected by a large majority its new President for the second half of the current term. The German MP, Hans-Gert Poettering, outgoing president of the PPE-DE group, will be in office u...
This meeting, like the first one, was mainly preparatory in nature. One of its chief objectives was to analyse the new budget that CECOP submitted to the European commission (after the latter reduced the budget substantially) a...
It is Roman Herzog, ex president of the Federal Republic of Germany who said it: betweeen 1999 and 2004, 84% of newly adopted German laws found their origin in the European texts. The vast majority of German laws is thus adopte...
This was the first Board meeting since the constituent general assembly of Cooperatives Europe, and the first one in which CECOP was represented as a ?type B member', namely as a sectoral member with a statutory Board seat...
The entry of Romania and Bulgaria in the European Union has the direct effect of moving its geographical centre. The new geographical centre of the 27 European Union is now at the top of a hill in the city of Gelnhausen in the...
We would like to inform you that the CECOP Member SZVD, The Slovak Union of Producer Co-operatives changed its name in COOP PRODUCT SLOVAKIA following its 18th General Assembly of 2 June 2006.
Green Paper presented by the Commission
We are working on the main axes of a position on SGI, based on consensus elements already reached within CECOP at different occasions.
This directive, which will enter in force on 31 March 2007, foresees in its art 19 the existence of special European tenders for enterprises employing disabled people. However, the entrepreneurial structures allowed to compete...
DG Enterprise Director General Heinz Zourek just wrote to us in order to ask us to inform our members that there is a call for candidates for DG Enterprise's Enterprise Policy Group (EPG), an advisory body to the Commission...
The meeting was held on 14 December at ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) between CECOP (Bruno Roelants), DIESIS (Luca Pastorelli), ETUC (Marco Cilento) and SDA, the technical structure of ETUC (Alexandre Martin).
