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...
The internal market services Directive has been adopted on 15 November 2006 by the European Parliament. The approved text is the common Council proposition as Ms Gebhardt renounced to present the previously proposed or supporte...
Around 50 participants, mainly from the CECOP network, gathered in this intensive four-hour seminar. The idea was to analyse the European social enterprise phenomenon from CECOP's traditional viewpoint of workers' joint...
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...
Based on minutes of general assemblies and board meetings
Thes are not numbers. They are persons that have left their countries to look for a better future. Many not only did not find it, but risked their lives and have had to go back to the lands of poverty, without future. Hundreds...
For the 1st anniversary of the law on the Services to the person, Jean-Louis Borloo, French minister of employment, social Cohesion and Housing, signed on July 24, in the presence of Frédéric Tiberghien, inter-departmental delegat...
We are at the middle of a European debate on Services of general interest (SGI), which directly concerns many of our cooperatives, which are member- and community-based enterprises. A European Parliament resolution on Services...
European Social NGOs devise ten key principles for a fair and just “flexicurity”
In April 2006, CECOP anticipated the consultation organised by DG Employment, Social affairs and equal opportunities of the European Commission on “an action at EU level to promote the active inclusion of the people furth...
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND WORKER COOPERATIVES : Comparing models of corporate governance and social Inclusion. Organised within the framework of the ICA-Europe and CCACE regional assembly, 9-11 November, Mancheste...
