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Banking and InsuranceBan Kin-moon praises stability of co-op banks in crisis
In a message to the 5th Convention of the European Association of Cooperative banks, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, highlighted the stability of co-operative banks during the crisis.
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Banking and InsuranceLeading co-op experts to attend 5th Convention on European Banking
High-level representatives from the co-operative, financial and political sectors will meet up in Brussels to discuss the future of co-operative banks at the 5th Convention on European Banking on 6 December.
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EnvironmentA Divine chocolate cruise to Bruges
Divine’s Wendy Rowan reports on a Divine Trip to Bruges: I’ve just had the pleasure in accompanying the winners of a Divine competition for students on a mini cruise to Bruges in Belgium. Meeting at the...
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Business
Global IYC Appeal now stands CHF 662,320.91
The worldwide co-operative community continues to show their support for the ICA’s Global Appeal for the International Year of Co-ops. In the last month this figure has crashed through the half a million swiss franc...
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Banking and Insurance
Euresa members launch a Climate Solidarity Platform® for policyholders
On the first day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and as an extension of their commitments “Towards Sustainable Development”, six European mutual and cooperative insurance groups, all members of Euresa -...
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Agriculture
Call for papers for two major events
Cooperative and mutualist researchers are invited to respond to two calls for scientific papers, the deadlines for which are fast approaching. In 2012, two international organizations will be holding major events at which they will...
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Banking and Insurance
We’ve come a long way together
Today marks ICMIF’s 90th anniversary. On April, 25, 1922, 12 delegates from five insurance cooperatives met in the offices of the Lega Cooperativa in Rome. Mr Joseph Lemaire, Chief Executive of La Prévoyance Sociale in...
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Banking and InsuranceHow co-operative banks build a sustainable world
Co-operative banks will connect with academics and stakeholders at the European Co-operative week in Brussels next week (25 April).
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DemocracyEuropean co-operatives launch International Year of Co-operatives
The European organizations representing co-operatives at EU level kick off the United Nations’ International Year of Co-operatives today with the launch of their 2012 political agenda, ‘Co-operatives for Europe – Moving Forward Together’.
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Turning the International Year of Co-operatives into A Co-operative Decade
For all of us at the ICA, the Old Year actually turned on 31 October 2011, with the start of the International Year of Co-operatives.