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20 Apr 2011

CECOP position: Green Paper - Public Procurements

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13 Apr 2011

Spanish production company edits a documentary about cooperatives throughout the world

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The Spanish audiovisual production cooperative m30m made a documentary about cooperatives around the world and are currently in the editing process of the fi...

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12 Apr 2011

Czech Labour Minister supports cooperatives

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The Czech Minister of Social Affairs, Jaromír Drábek, raised the profile of the opening of the CECOP-CICOPA Europe Board meeting in Prague by a...

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11 Apr 2011

COOPROUTE

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07 Apr 2011

International Year of Cooperatives: “Cooperative enterprises build a better world"

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“Cooperative Enterprises build a better world” will be the slogan of the 2012 United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. It highlights th...

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25 Mar 2011

Relief fund for worker cooperatives in Japan

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JWCU, the Japanese organisation for worker’s cooperatives, is reporting severe damages among its members. Some workers’ relatives are still missi...

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22 Mar 2011

France: Democracy succeeds at cooperatives!

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For the first time in its history, the General Confederation of Scop (CG Scop) has launched a big campaign across the whole country. Its goal: to educate the...

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21 Mar 2011

Earthquake in Japan: the situation for workers' cooperatives

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The Japan Workers’ Cooperative Union (JWCU) reported that an earthquake, which reached a magnitude of 9.0, hit the country on 11th March and caused a v...

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21 Mar 2011

Keys to the creation of cooperatives: the example of three practical guides

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The transformation of companies into cooperatives is an option which is not always taken into account as part of corporate restructuring in crisis or in busi...

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11 Mar 2011

3. Financial instruments

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10 Mar 2011

Lauch of an interactive news platform about cooperatives

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Co-operative Press has recently launched Dash.coop, a website that displays news and blog feeds from cooperatives across the world. It also provides an inter...

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08 Mar 2011

Spanish workers cooperatives have grown by 7% during the first three months in 2010

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The number of workers cooperatives increased by 7% last year compared to the same period in 2009, according to the Spanish worker’s cooperatives associ...

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01 Mar 2011

CECOP position on Single Market Act

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11 Feb 2011

2. Inter-cooperative cooperation

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11 Jan 2011

1. Cooperatives as builders of sustainability

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CICOPA's cooperative development strategy applied to worker, social and artisans’ cooperatives. The document “Cooperative development strateg...

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27 Dec 2010

Getting out of poverty in Italy

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In the context of the “2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion”, the European Commission released a series of video clips h...

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16 Nov 2010

Innovation Camp – The Kids Are All Right!

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Eighteen young trainees and students from several cooperative enterprises were invited by Kooperationen to participate in a workshop in Elsinore, Denmark. Th...

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16 Nov 2010

Rossano Rimelli elected as president of CECOP-CICOPA Europe

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Rossano Rimelli was elected as president of CECOP-CICOPA Europe at its extraordinary general assembly which was held on 4th November in Brussels. With this e...

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26 Oct 2010

CECOP position on the consultation “EU initiative on Concessions”

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08 Oct 2010

Italian cooperatives resist the crisis

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The cooperatives affiliated to Confcooperative in Italy are facing the crisis: like all other businesses, they have witnessed a considerable reduction in ord...

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17 Sep 2010

CECOP position on State aid rules on SGEI

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31 Jul 2010

Issue 3 - July 2010

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20 Apr 2010

EU Employment Commissioner László Andor : cooperatives have been innovative in time of cri...

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The European Parliament EPP Group (Group of the European People's Party) organised on the 14th of April an open discussion forum on "New Employment...

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29 Mar 2010

Report on meeting

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13 Feb 2010

The importance of cooperatives featured on the Guardian website

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As the Labour Party announced that it will support and encourage the cooperative movement at the next general election in the UK, an article in the guardian....

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