Co-operative News - Czech Republic

12th January 2012 : Marking the start of the International Year of Co-operatives

MirkoNodari — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:38:39 +0000

Co-operative enterprises are businesses done by their members, for their members and to their members. Simply put, co-operative enterprises are good for everyone.

Yet, in spite of the current global social and economical challenges, the role of co-operatives has been overlooked. In response to this, co-operatives set out to give a wake-up call once with the start of the new year.

On the 12th of January 2012 co-operatives want to unite their voices and mark the start of the International Year of Cooperatives. Only by co-operating we can be more powerful and achieve our goals. Only by being together we can change the future. So join us on 12th January and let everyone know that the International Year of Cooperatives has started.

There are plenty of simple ways to celebrate the start of the Year. It can be putting up an International Year poster, handing out stickers to your customers, sending a press release to your local media, writing a blog, making a tweet or having a co-operative lunch with your colleagues, friends and family. Sharing the news with everybody is essential!

Co-operatives all over Europe and across the world will be marking the start of the Year in their own ways for 12 January. Cooperatives Europe, the ICA and many other co-operative organisations across Europe and the world are encouraging all members to join in celebrating the co-operative movement and mark the start of the Year on 12 January. If you are interested contact us: several of the countries and national committees involved are offering to share resources, for example, sample press releases.

So why not join with the global movement on 12 January and celebrate the start of 2012?

EU Commissioner Piebalgs meets Co-operatives and Fair Trade Organisations

MirkoNodari — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:02:19 +0000

On Wednesday 5 October 2011 the co-operative movement represented by Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance, and Klaus Niederländer, Director of Cooperatives Europe together with the Fair Trade movement represented by Ian Bretman, Executive Vice-Chair of the Board of Fairtrade Labelling International, and Sergi Corbalan, Director of Fair Trade Advocacy Office, met the EU Commissioner for Development, Mr Andris Piebalgs.

United welcome euro visitors

admin — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

UNITED Co-operatives' Ramsbottom store has played host to a visit by Co-operative Society members from right across Europe.

The group were all delegates attending the European Regional Assembly held in Manchester as part of the three-day Manchester Co-operative Week.

Managers from United Co-operatives were on hand to answer questions about the store from the group who had come from a number of countries including Russia, The Czech Republic, Greece and Cyprus.

The trip round the store followed a visit to the Co-operative Museum in Rochdale.

Europe can teach UK a thing or two about co-operation

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Live8 proved there is more than one way to demonstrate social solidarity, just as there is more than one group to whom we can show our support.
For all the talk from France and Germany in recent weeks about the need to protect the European social model, Live8 underlined that it is more important to ‘solidarise' with land workers in poverty stricken Africa than with land owners in rural France.
Strangely, the arguments that have riven the European Union over the future of the social model have not been accompanied by any clear definition of what that social model actually is.