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06.06.2013

Cooperative Development Support

Cooperatives and Fair Trade promote people-centred businesses together
On 5th June, Cooperatives Europe and Fair Trade Advocacy Office join forces to underline the role that people-centred businesses should have in the EU development strategy. To this end they organized the high level conference ‘People-centred businesses: making supply chains work for small producers’, hosted by MEP Gay Mitchell....

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06.05.2013

Lehnhoff, the new president of Cooperatives Europe
On 6th May, Dirk Lehnhoff was elected president of Cooperatives Europe. 90% of the members of Cooperatives Europe participated in the elections and two thirds voted in the new president as well as the new Board of Cooperatives Europe at the 2013 General Assembly of Cooperatives Europe in Istanbul. Lehnhoff...

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25.04.2013

Backlash on EU’s key instrument for fighting climate change
On 16th April the EU Parliament rejected the EU Commission’s proposal to raise the price of carbon by delaying the auctioning of emission allowances. Prices of allowances will therefore remain low at least until 2020 -unless the Commission will take urgent actions against it- and the ETS (European Trading...

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16.04.2013

Entrepreneurship & Social Economy

Cooperatives Europe supports EU Commission’s legislative initiative on disclosure of non-financial information
As announced in the Single Market Act communication in April 2011 and the communication ‘A renewed strategy, 2011-2013, for Corporate Social Responsibility’ issued in October 2011, Commissioner Barnier presented this afternoon a proposal enhancing the transparency of companies. The draft directive would amend existing accounting directives and require large...

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21.03.2013

Regulatory Framework for Cooperatives

Cooperatives support EU Parliament request for a European Mutual Society statute
The European Parliament unanimously embraced on the 14th of March an initiative report on the Statute for a European Mutual society. The report emphasizes that a statute for a European mutual society will create an optional instrument of law for mutual societies that, for instance, would allow them to...

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04.02.2013

Cooperative Development Support

Cooperatives say new EU development & cooperation programmes are a step in the right direction
Important changes are expected in the EU’s new development and cooperation budget as the European Union is preparing its next multi-annual financial plan for 2014-2020. In particular, a new programme dedicated to civil society organisations and local authorities will replace the Non State Actors programme. This change follows the...

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31.01.2013

Regulatory Framework for Cooperatives

Entrepreneurship 2020 action plan: more efforts needed to foster the plurality of business forms
EU Commission Vice-president Tajani presented on February 19th the new Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan to the Competitiveness Council. Through a pro-active entrepreneurship policy, the plan aims to create jobs, growth and a more competitive economy. A follow-up of this debate is planned at the informal ministerial meeting of May...

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08.01.2013

Cooperatives Europe members visit Morocco and Tunisia with VP Tajani
Three member organisations of Cooperatives Europe were part of the official delegation accompanying EU Commission’s Vice-President Tajani on his ‘Mission for Growth’ to Morocco and Tunisia at the end of November 2012. The objective of the visit was to reinforce commercial partnerships, in order to help industry and SMEs...

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11.12.2012

Cooperatives and social economy conference in Bulgaria
The Economic and Social Committee of the Republic of Bulgaria, supported by the Bulgarian cooperative movement, held the conference “The role of cooperatives for the development of social economy’  on December 4 in Sofia. Etienne Pflimlin, Co-president, and Klaus Niederländer, Director, were invited to speak on behalf of Cooperatives...

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23.11.2012

Cooperative Development Support, Regulatory Framework for Cooperatives

Greece is not on sale: supporting a cooperative economy owned by Greeks
On 19th November 2012 Cooperatives Europe participated in a conference in Ioannina, Greece, on promoting the cooperative enterprise model, organised by Kapa Network and the Ioannina University. In these times of crisis, there is a growing interest in collectively owned enterprises, which are rooted in local communities and which...

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