Judging by the media coverage in recent days, highlighting the closure and forced merger of a number of Spanish 'Cajas', the increasing nervousness of the markets with regard to the euro, and the potential exposure of European banks to...
Workshop jointly sponsored by INCA, Manchester Digital, MDDA and DotCoop
2pm, 1st November 2012Manchester Digital Development Agency117-119 Portland Street Manchester M1 6ED
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Yesterday saw the release of the annual scoreboard for the EC's Digital Agenda for Europe. Whilst clearly the European Commission is keen to accentuate the positive there are also some fairly stark numbers in the report.
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A news report the other day gave a small insight in to how ordinary Greeks, frustrated by the lack of action by their elected politicians and by the wider eurozone leaders, are taking matters into their own hands, and using cooperative solutions to...
The crisis in Europe seems to tighten with each passing day. The BBC today reports that the ratings agency Fitch has further downgraded Spain's credit rating, whilst at the same time the interest rate Spain is paying on ten-year bonds has increased...
It's looking pretty likely now that the Spanish state is going to need a bailout from the Euro Stability Fund. One commentator I read (sorry I didn't note their name) suggested that as the Spanish economy was tightly tied to the Italian economy,...
We make no apology for returning to the subject of Mondragon. An iconic cooperative not only in Europe, but across the world, the Mondragon cooperative group offers an outstanding model for cooperative movements globally to learn from. This video...
I've just come across this recently made news item form Al Jazeera about the might Mondragon cooperative.
Interestingly the reporter mentions that they "even have their own savings bank anShare on Facebook Linkedin Share Button Tweet Widget Google...
On October 31 2011 the United Nations launched the International Year of Cooperatives 2012. The launch of this initiative comes at a time of increasingly severe economic crisis - what Carlos Heller referred to yesterday at the UN as a "paradigm...
