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07 Nov 2012

The strength of inter-cooperation, key for the future of the cooperative movement

Position paper

With this year coming to an end, there are many conclusions and considerations we can already take from the past months. Co-operatives United compiled some o...

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29 Oct 2012

Co-operatives United, the close of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2...

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27 Oct 2012

A melody of cooperation around the world

Position paper

CICOPA launches a musical project that calls anyone to participate with songs in any language that transmit messages about cooperative work or cooperation. T...

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15 Oct 2012

CECOP participates in the conference 'Social Enterprises and the Europe 2020 Strategy” at...

Position paper

Bruno Roelants, Secretary General of CECOP participated in the conference 'Social Enterprises and the Europe 2020 Strategy: innovative solutions for a su...

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05 Oct 2012

Full version of the documentary Together already available!

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The full version of the documentary TOGETHER is already available. This is a low definition file, if you want to purchase the DVD. The film shows the resilie...

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28 Sep 2012

CECOP answer to the consultation on General block exemption Regulation

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24 Sep 2012

Photo Exhibition “Through their eyes” at the European Parliament

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20 Sep 2012

The European Parliament holds next week the photo exhibition “Through their eyes”

Position paper

CECOP – CICOPA Europe is organizing the picture exhibition “Through their eyes” to be held from 24th to 27th September at the European Parl...

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07 Sep 2012

Hamon highlights the resilience of cooperatives to the crisis

Position paper

Benoît Hamon, the French Deputy Minister for Social and Solidarity Economy, participated yesterday at the European Parliament’s Social Economy In...

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06 Sep 2012

Handbook 3: European Union policies and policy processes, Internal market, enterprise and...

Position paper

How does function the EU decision-making process? Are all decisions taken by EU legally binding for Member States and do they have the same impact? What are...

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06 Sep 2012

Handbook 2: The open method of coordination

Position paper

This second handbook analyses the main challenges of the ambitious Lisbon Strategy set up for ten years in 2000 by EU and its Member States. It provides a be...

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06 Sep 2012

Handbook 1: The European Union institutions and how they function

Position paper

This first handbook attempts at explaining how EU regulation increasingly impacts on our enterprises, how the various EU institutions function and interact w...

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05 Sep 2012

Cooperatives and social enterprises: Governance and normative frameworks

Publication

Coordinated by Bruno Roelants (CECOP), with contributions from Felice Scalvini (CECOP, Confcooperative), Roger Spear (EMES Network), Jean Gautier (CGSCOP), Vilm...

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04 Sep 2012

Beyond the Crisis: Cooperatives, Work, Finance. Generating Wealth for the Long Term

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Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis that flared up in 2007/2008, this book reflects the particularly strong resilience of cooper...

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03 Sep 2012

Cooperatives, Territories and Jobs: Twenty experiences of cooperatives active in industry...

Publication

The massive wealth and job destruction caused by the 2008 financial crisis has brought back the focus onto the real economy, job creation and territorial develo...

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02 Sep 2012

TOGETHER. How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis

Video

It’s a reality. In Europe, 1.5 million workers co-own their enterprises. They are called worker cooperatives, social cooperatives or participative ente...

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09 Aug 2012

International conference of worker and social cooperatives in Marseille

Position paper

In the framework of the International Year of Cooperatives and of the Congress of the French Worker Cooperatives (Scop), the main international event for wor...

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26 Jul 2012

Commissioner Andor published an article on cooperatives in the Hungarian newspaper Népszav...

Position paper

On the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives, Laszlo Andor, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, published an...

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23 Jul 2012

CECOP position on personal and household services

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20 Jul 2012

International summer school for young cooperative entrepreneurs in Poitiers

Position paper

Les Scop Poitou-Charentes has organised the first international summer school for young cooperative entrepreneurs in France: “Campus Coopérative...

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16 Jul 2012

A step forward: the cooperative modernization in Montenegro

Position paper

The conference ‘The Case for Gateway Cooperatives in Montenegro and the Balkans’ held in Podgorica on 3rd July, in which CECOP participated, took...

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07 Jul 2012

CECOP-CICOPA Europe celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives sharing the results o...

Position paper

Today, 7th July, cooperative enterprises celebrate the 18th International Day of Cooperatives, proclaimed by the United Nations and the 90th International Co...

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04 Jul 2012

A French law for worker buy-outs?

Position paper

Benoît Hamon, the French minister for social and solidarity economy, declared that he intended to design a law on the right of preference of workers wh...

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29 Jun 2012

CECOP-CICOPA Europe presents the new documentary “Together -How cooperatives show resilien...

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CECOP-CICOPA Europe had the premiere of its new documentary “Together - How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis" due to be released in Sept...

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26 Jun 2012

Premiere of the Documentary “Together”

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