Poland
Poland
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CommunityCICOPA president receives recognition on the 200th anniversary of the Polish co-operative movement
Manuel Mariscal, president of the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Co-operatives (CICOPA), has received a medal marking the 200th anniversary of the Polish co-operative movement. The award, under the patronage of Polish president Andrzej Duda,...
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Credit UnionsPolish credit union leader Grzegorz Bierecki new WOCCU chair
Grzegorz Biereki, who has played a key role in the growth of Poland's credit union movement, is the new chair of the World Council of Credit Unions.
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BusinessFair Trade Beyond 2015 Campaign Launched to Influence UN MDGs
On 10 November, the Fair Trade Beyond 2015 Campaign was launched in Poznan, Poland at the 6th International Fair Trade Towns Conference, which was attended by many across the Fair Trade movement. The aims of...
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Business
Europe’s social franchisers – doomed to succeed
Research recently carried out by the European Social Franchising Network (ESFN) shows that Europe’s social franchises probably employ around 13,000 people – two-thirds of whom are disadvantaged or disabled. And they are growing fast. The...
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Business
Big thanks to these co-ops
The ICA would like to extend warm and sincere thanks to the following co-operatives from all around the world who have all donated to the ICA’s Global Appeal for the International Year of Co-operatives: Belarussian...
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Democracy
CECOP will produce a documentary about the resilience of cooperatives to the crisis
CECOP is working on a documentary on the resilience of the cooperatives and participative enterprises in industry and services to the crisis. The film will bring forward emblematic examples of restructuring measures by cooperatives in...
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Business
Poland: Global pressure helps derail anti-co-op legislation
Poland is a huge country in the centre of Europe. There are 38 million inhabitants of which eight million are members of co-operatives. After the political transformation in the early 1990s, the Polish co-operative movement...
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Credit Unions
Occupy Wall Street? Why not choose a Co-op?
This past year I’ve witnessed first-hand how that resilient race of people, the Japanese, have hung together to rebuild their country. In Poland its people can relax in the knowledge that their housing co-operatives and...
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BusinessAttack on Poland’s co-ops fought off
Following pressure from the UK and international co-operative movements, the Polish Parliament has rejected proposed legislation which threatened to turn co-ops into shareholder companies.
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DemocracyEU Commissioner Piebalgs meets Co-operatives and Fair Trade Organisations
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...