by JoseJuan | Oct 21, 2025 | Highlights
The General Assembly of CECOP – the European Confederation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives – met on 16 October in Brussels and elected Monica Fantini as its new President, succeeding Giuseppe Guerini, who had held the position since 2016. Fantini also becomes...
by JoseJuan | Oct 21, 2025 | Highlights
The European organisation representing farmers and agricultural cooperatives, Copa-Cogeca, has stated that the proposals presented by the European Commission for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034) and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy...
by JoseJuan | Oct 21, 2025 | Highlights
The European Commission has announced that the EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform is no longer being updated. The announcement was made on the Platform’s website, which explains that the social economy “will become a cross-cutting theme within the Tourism,...
by JoseJuan | Oct 21, 2025 | Highlights
The European Parliament adopted a Resolution on public procurement (2024/2103(INI)) setting out priorities for the upcoming review of EU directives in this field. The text, approved on 9 September, aims to simplify the rules, strengthen the Union’s economic...
by JoseJuan | Oct 21, 2025 | Highlights
The Catalan cooperative Abacus hosted on September 26 the event “Cooperatives and Culture: Diversity, Cultural and Social Rights,” held within the framework of UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development (Mondiacult 2025). The meeting,...
by JoseJuan | Oct 21, 2025 | Highlights
The closing ceremony of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2025 will take place on the morning of next November 4 in Doha, as part of the program of the Second World Summit for Social Development organized by the UN. Thirty years after the first...
