What is CECOP?
CECOP is the European confederation of industrial and service cooperatives. Our aim is to bring democracy and solidarity to the workplace, sustainable economic growth, and social cohesion.
CECOP is the European confederation of industrial and service cooperatives. Our aim is to bring democracy and solidarity to the workplace, sustainable economic growth, and social cohesion.
Our members are national federations of cooperatives and organisations that promote cooperatives. We represent 27 members in 16 European countries. We give voice to 40.000 enterprises and 1.3 million workers.
Giving voice to those women and men that every day put in practice what we defend and advocate for in CECOP, #COOPTALES shows a different way of doing economy where democratic and social values are drivers of a common project.
In 2022-2023 CECOP carried out a quantitative data collection among its members to gain better insight into the network. The data collected highlights the size of the network, the diversity of economic activities in which cooperatives affiliated to our members operate, membership...
On 18 July, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as President of the European Commission. She also presented her political guidelines, framing her agenda for the next Commission. CECOP welcomes the framework but calls for greater ambition from the Commission.
Three cooperatives with rich histories, SACMI, Cefla and Mondragon, demonstrate how innovation, adaptability and adhering to the cooperative principles can allow enterprises to stay competitive in an ever-changing world. In 2023 alone, these three industrial enterprises generated...
On the 24 June, CECOP co-organised the conference “The cooperative movement in the social economy – an Italian Action Plan” together with the Italian Cooperative Alliance and Social Economy Europe. The event took place in Rome and aimed to discussing the different scenarios for t...
As foreseen in the SME Relief Package in 2023, the SME Envoy Network recently developed a report on the assessment of the framework conditions for business transfers (including intra-family succession, selling to a third party and business transfers to employees, i.e., workers bu...
CECOP held its hybrid annual General Assembly on 25 June 2024 in Rome, Italy, hosted by the Alleanza delle Cooperative Italiane.
In our Report of Activity from 2023, we invite our members, readers, and the general public to take a look at our main achievements from last year.
As part of the implementation of the 2022 Council Recommendation on access to affordable high-quality long-term care, which accompanied the introduction of the broader European Care Strategy, it is recommended that EU Member States submit a national action plan. These plans outli...
On the 17th of April, Enrico Letta published his report on the future of the EU single market titled “Much more than a market: speed, security, solidarity” which covers a vast array of topics that also concern industrial and service cooperatives – including State aid, industrial...
CECOP had the chance to sit down with its member Smart and discuss the ongoing Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
CECOP's 2022-2023 data collection shows the size and variety of its cooperative network, highlighting membership, workforce, and economic trends across different industries
Industrial and service cooperatives’ priorities for European elections 2024
