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).
The « Coopérer et Entreprendre » network gathered 350 participants from many horizons for its seminar on “Alternatives for employment in Europe” (07 & 08 December, European Parliament, Brussel...
In September 2006, Francesco Ventura integrated the CECOP team for a 3-month-period internship. In possession of a Master in International and diplomatic sciences, specialised in European Studies (Bologna University), Francesco...
Europe has to face with unemployment, and the Lisbon Strategy aims at full employment for 2010/2015; the Business and Employment Co-operatives (BECs) fit in perfectly with this line, and their concept - which was initiated in F...
CECOP's project proposal on "fostering the involvement of workers in SCEs and national cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises" has been selected by the European Commission's DG Employment.
This Monday 4 December, a European Commission workshop with member states on cooperative legislation took place. It was part of the series of workshops initiated in 2004 as a result of the Commission's Communication on Coop...
May we advise you to communicate the following to your affiliated enterprises involved in the environment field. The following information was given to CECOP at the monthly SME Envoy meeting with stakeholders.
Please be informed that DG Enterprise and Industry's web page on start-ups has been updated to include the presentations and conclusions of the workshop on start-up procedures which took place last November the 13th in Brus...
This huge congress of 1400 persons on « solidarity economy » was organised by a number of German social organisations, including CICOPA and CECOP member Netz für Selbstverwaltung and Selbst-Organisation (Networ...
(Bruxelles, 21/11/2006) Through this European Social Fund project, Confesal and Legacoop, together with the two Spanish trade unions UGT and CCOO, plus the IRES think tank of Italian trade union CGIL spent two years doing resea...
Through this European Social Fund project, Confesal and Legacoop, together with the two Spanish trade unions UGT and CCOO, plus the IRES think tank of Italian trade union CGIL spent two years doing research and experimentation...
Presentation of CEEP's initiative towards a European Framework on SGIs - September 2006
This Tuesday 21 November, the Legal Affairs committee recommended on Tuesday that the European Commission should propose a European Private Company (EPC) statute designed to help Europe's small and medium-sized enterprises...
On 22 November 2006, the Commission has launched a consultation on « Green Paper on 'Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century' ». The debate will ask how labour law at EU and nationa...
On 13 November, DG Employment organised a workshop on Business start-up procedures for SME's (CECOP Link 2006/18). We had already talked about this topic in CECOP Link n° 16 encouraging you to complete the Commission qu...
