The Hungarian Folk High School Society (HFHSS) coordinated a government-sponsored programme to promote social cooperatives in Hungary, which lasted from October 2007 to March 2008. The conference that closed the program took pl...

CECOP's response to the Commission consultation on “Small Business Act”

Third draft regulation on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market (Draft General Block exemption Regulation).

By Luc Vernet | Europolitics - 26 February 2008

Cooperatives Europe - Press Release

The 27 February, CECOP attended a seminar focusing on the feasibility of the setting-up of a European centre for SMEs in China. The idea comes after a consultation launched by the Commission in 2006 on the EU's trade relati...

In its communication on the midterm review of Modern SME policy of 4 October 2007, the European Commission introduced an actions program of actions organised around five key areas: cutting red tape, improving SMEs' access t...

We would like to insist very strongly on this consultation as already underlined in the previous CECOP Link ([click here->http://www.cecop.coop/article.php3?id_article=668]) since the SBA is going to define the long-term fut...

Cooperative Europe's proposals on Small Business Act

CECOP response to the Commission consultation : Questionnaire on the “Small Business Act” for Europe

SME-relevants items in the 2008 Commission Legislative Work Programme

Background documents and presentations from the SME Envoy meeting with Stakeholders - 30 January 2008

This week, CECOP pursued its follow-up of the Small Business Act theme by attending a Commission Hearing. All the actors linked to this project were present that is the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Member-S...

This week, CECOP pursued its follow-up of the Small Business Act theme by attending a Commission Hearing. All the actors linked to this project were present that is the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Member-S...

CECOP Congress will be held in Brussels on Wednesday 30 April 2008 from 9am to 5 pm.

This week, CECOP pursued its follow-up of the SGI / SSGI theme by attending a CoR/EESC/SSGI Collective conference entitled "Towards an internal market of social services?" as well as the “Social Economy” I...

CECOP's response to the Commission consultation: “Opportunities, access and solidarity: towards a new social vision for 21st century Europe”

CECOP's response to the Commission consultation: Modernising social protection for greater social justice and economic cohesion: taking forward the active inclusion of people furthest from the labour market

Position of Cooperatives Europe and CECOP on the communication “Services of General Interest, including social services of General Interest: a new European commitment”

The article by Cécile Raimbeau (available on www.monde-diplomatique.fr as of January 2007) explains the successes of the hundreds of democratic worker buy-outs of enterprises in crisis in Europe that have taken place ove...

On December 4, 2007, the CEEP (European centre of enterprises with public participation and of enterprises of general economic interest) organised in Brussels a conference on the “Services of General interest and Internal...

Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Overcoming the stigma of business failure - for a second chance policy - Im...

At the occasion of the seminar Social Economy: a key sector for growth and jobs” held by the European Economic and Social Committee on 3 December, EU enterprise and industrial policy Commissioner Verheugen said that &ldqu...