A new working group has been launched by the European Commission together with cooperative representatives from all around Europe. CECOP – CICOPA Europe was among the European-level organisations invited to participate on...

"Simply Buyout" is a guide to promote and develop business transfers to employees addressed to owners, professional advisers and employees in the UK. It is jointly published by: Co-operatives UK, the body that unites cooperative e...

Today, cooperative enterprises all around the world celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives, proclaimed by the United Nations and the International Cooperative Alliance. CECOP – CICOPA Europe, the European Confede...

On the eve of the International Day of Cooperatives, the European Parliament has approved in plenary session the report on the contribution of cooperatives active in industry and services to overcome the crisis presented by the...

There has been a large meeting of Italian cooperatives in Rome, with an address by Prime Minister, Enrico Letta and Minister of Economic Development, Flavio Zanonato . The Alliance of Italian Cooperatives (comprising the three...

This year’s International Cooperative Day celebrated July 6, has the theme “Cooperative enterprise remains strong in times of crisis”. This 91st International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) International Cooperati...

Next stop: Asia. The documentary Together follows its travel around the world! The film about the resilience of cooperatives in Industries and Services in Europe is now available in Japanese and Korean. It has already been scre...

Last year in Europe, more than 150 enterprises that were on the verge of being closed down, because no transfer plan or heir was found, have been successfully transferred to their employees under the form of a cooperative savin...

The French Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (CG Scop), has published its key figures for 2012 revealing, among other issues, an increase in employment of 4%. In 2012, a total of 248 new cooperatives has emerged, increasing...

Representatives from worker cooperative federations and dedicated support structures in Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Canada shared their expertise with several Greek stakeholders. The group participated in the premiere of the G...

An example of inter cooperation, the “Consorzio RicostruiaMO” (or “Rebuild Consortium”) has been officially created. Its aim is to contribute, along with the government, citizens, and technicians, to the...

3 June 2013 | 2.30pm | EESC The European Commission has estimated that around 150,000 enterprises employing around 600,000 persons may be lost over the next few years, if no transfer plan or heir is found for them. Over the las...

The European Commission has recently published the volume 4 of the Social Europe guide dedicated to “Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship”. The study underlines the role of those enterprises representing an im...

The Secretary General of CECOP, Bruno Roelants, together with Giuseppe Guerrini, President of the Italian organisation of social cooperatives Federsolidarietà, have presented a document on the role of social cooperatives...

Guy Ryder, General Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), highlighted the role of worker cooperatives in resisting the crisis at the Opening of the conference “Potential and limits of Social and Solidari...

Dirk Lehnhoff has been elected President of Cooperatives Europe, the European intersectoral cooperative organisation of which CECOP is a sectoral organisation, in the framework of the 2013 General Assembly in Istanbul. The Boar...

Although more than six million people are unemployed in Spain, cooperatives have managed to not only maintain, but also increase the number of jobs by 7.2 percent in the third quarter of 2012. The Spanish Minister for Employmen...

The idea of creating a new global visual image for the cooperative movement was launched in the “Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade” approved, last October in Manchester, by the General Assembly of the International...

At the occasion of the conference “VAT in the public sector and exemptions in the public interest” taking place in Italy (Venezia Mestre) on April 17th, 18th and 19th in the presence of the European Commission, CECO...