The new European Commission has started its 5 year term this week. CECOP, the European Confederation of Cooperatives active in industry and services, welcome...
Four years after launching the EU 2020 strategy characterised by strong objectives and targets supposed to foster growth and jobs, the European Commission is...
An approach based on passive touristic consumption and the unsustainable exploitation of many destinations has showed its limits and negative effects. As a c...
CECOP together with the Social Platform, ENSIE, Eurodiaconia and REVES are holding a side event at the European Platform Against Poverty and Social Exclusion...
The Emilia- Romagna Region is hosting on 29th October the worldwide launching of the new on-line guide of the European Route of Cooperative Culture in Bologn...
From October 5 to 9, the 2014 International Summit of Cooperatives held in Quebec City, Canada brought together 3,000 participants from 93 countries. Worker...
We, young cooperative leaders and members, believe in the cooperative principles and cooperative values. We believe that the co-operative movement must be at...
Cooperatives have been contributing to employment all over the world for decades. Presented for the first time at the International Summit of Cooperatives, t...
The French law on the recognition and development of the social and solidarity economy, which has been in force since August 2014, introduces changes to the...
Javier Salaberría, CICOPA President from 2005 until 2011, sadly passed away on Saturday 26th July and we received this news with great sorrow. Javier...
Worker cooperatives in Belgium are getting organised. The Union des Scop Wallonie-Bruxelles has emerged this year thanks to the determination of more than 30...
On the eve of the International Cooperative Day, CICOPA, the voice of worker, social and artisans' cooperatives, is underlining the high potential of inc...
In 2013, a 32% increase in the creation of worker cooperatives was registered last year, according to the Spanish Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (COCET...
“It is with great satisfaction and pride that we welcome Prime Minister Renzi's decision to assign social cooperatives and social enterprises the r...
The European Commission organised a conference on 17 June on business transfer, grouping experts in the field for the occasion. CECOP was invited to share th...
With 263 new companies, 2013 was the best year in 6 years for the creation of worker cooperatives in France. The total number of companies is now 2,252 (a 4%...
Getting ready for summer destinations and planning to travel around Europe? Why not to visit a cooperative contributing to preserve and value the local indus...
The Italian social cooperative Progetto QUID was announced yesterday 20 May as one +of the three winners of the European Social Innovation Competition, organ...
With the aim of gathering ‘Ideas for a better Europe', more than 5,000 young people took part at the European Youth Event (EYE) organized by the Eu...
Social innovation is at the basis of cooperatives. Many examples all around Europe are showing how ideas that put people at the heart of the decision-making...
At the close of 2013 there was a 23% increase in the creation of worker cooperatives than at the same time the previous year. Up to 2013, there had been 10 p...
